This month’s installment of this column is all AI, though applications for the technology range widely, from two startups that apply AI to trash or recycling, to another that promises to help people breathe and sleep better, to a company that says its AI can help architects and builders spot commercial projects before they’re even announced.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Hugging Face Inc. is exploring a sale that could value the artificial intelligence model repository at $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported today. The company has brought in a bank to sound out potential buyers, according to the report, which cited people familiar with the process. Talks are early and no bidder was named […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Plus the math that has to be true for AI to reach $600B in revenue: $100K of tokens per engineer, and 30% fewer engineers. A heavy week on 20VC x SaaStr with Harry Stebbings, Rory O’Driscoll and Jason Lemkin: SpaceX closed its $60B all-stock takeover of Cursor Stripe bought OpenRouter for around $7B, four months...
Summary published by SaaStrAI · 23 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
The artificial intelligence industry wants enterprises to measure progress in tokens, model calls and usage. But those are largely vendor-revenue metrics — not enterprise-value metrics. The Canva example shows why. On Aug. 6, The Information reported that Canva Inc. cut its 2026 revenue-growth forecast from 30% to 20% because its AI features cost far more to […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 22 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Artificial intelligence hardware startup Starcloud Inc. today announced that it has raised $250 million in funding at a $2.3 billion valuation. Investment firm Manhattan West led the deal. It was joined by more than a dozen other backers, including Nvidia Corp. and Cisco Investments. The cash infusion extends a Series A round that Starcloud announced in […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
The biggest financing of the week went to Castelion, a defense tech startup developing a hypersonic missile. Other sizable rounds went to companies developing AI inference technology, a video-creation platform, data centers and voice-to-text tools.
Summary published by Crunchbase News · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
An artificial intelligence startup called Astromech that’s developing models that can predict biological change has raised $20 million in funding, lifting its valuation to $3.8 billion. The round was led by biotechnology investor Bob Nelsen and saw the participation of Peak 6, NeoGenesis Capital, Builders VC and CAZ Investments, bringing the company’s total amount raised […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.
Summary published by AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch · 21 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.
Summary published by AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Below, we break down some of tech’s biggest stories, with analyst perspective on the moves that matter the most. Here’s what we’re watching this week: ITC Vegas 2026 Virtue AI gets acquired by Fortinet Groq raises $350M This brief is …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Twin1 AI Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding to build artificial intelligence-powered digital twins that carry an individual professional’s expertise across their organization. The San Mateo, California-based startup pairs each worker with a persistent model of their own knowledge, judgment and working context, one that can answer questions and act on that […]
Summary published by SiliconANGLE · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Paulius Čiulada, CMO of AMLYZE tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? Hello! So, very shortly, the global anti-money …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Bemigho Awala, the Head of PR and Media Relations at Moniepoint Inc tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Anna Antimiichuk, the Head of Marketing at Vivox AI, tells CB Insights how they view the market, customer needs, and their company. How do you define your market and where does your company fit into that space? At Vivox AI, …
Summary published by CB Insights Research · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗
Callosum, a London-based startup building infrastructure to unify different AI models and chips, has raised €85.4 million ($100 million) in a Seed round to advance what it calls “heterogeneous intelligence”. The round was led by Atomico, with significant participation from Plural, DCVC, and the UK Sovereign AI Fund, as well as other investors and angels. […]
Summary published by EU-Startups · 20 Aug 2026 · Read the original ↗