Ollama raises $65M as its open-model runner hits nearly 9M developers

Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal

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This AI startup pays $1.7M a year in rent so staff will work 72-hour weeks

Fi’s new collar taps Starlink’s direct-to-cell to track dogs off the grid

ElevenLabs’ CEO on hitting ~$600m revenue and outrunning the AI labs

Perplexity is quietly building an AI coding tool to rival Cursor and Claude Code

After 25 years of self-funding, Bezos opens Blue Origin at a $130bn valuation

Nomagic’s warehouse robots got an AI brain, and it halved the calls for human help

MiniMax is building China’s biggest AI model yet, and plans to open-source it

SpaceXAI and Cursor could ship their first joint AI model as soon as today

Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300M at a $13.2bn valuation

Quaise raises $134M to drill superhot rock with microwaves

Norm Ai raises $120M at a $1.2B valuation to build AI-native law

Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet

Camera-free smart-glasses maker Even Realities hits $1bn on a $150M raise

Cambridge’s Worldmodeldata raises £7M to turn video games into AI training data

Finland’s CurifyLabs raises $14M to 3D-print personalised medicine in the US

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

AI-native startups hire fewer juniors and more elites, Harvard study finds

Weave’s $7,999 Isaac 1 bets home robots don’t need legs or fingers

A rocket motor blew up at Anduril’s Mississippi test site. The defence darling says it’s routine

Quantum Systems raises $1.2bn and doubles its valuation to $8bn as defence money floods in

Nvidia offers AI startups compute now, payment later

Pie raises $19.5M to keep small businesses visible in AI search

Realta Fusion lights bulbs straight from its reactor, a commercial first

Build raises $8.5M to speed up the paperwork behind data centres

London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers

OpenAI’s first hardware is a macro pad for Codex coders

AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise at a $5bn valuation

Chamath’s AI coding startup 8090 raises $135M, and he’s CEO

Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space

Straiker raises $64M to secure the AI agents running your company

Peec AI doubles its valuation betting GEO is the new SEO

Ex-Anthropic researchers raise $200M for self-improving AI