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Could EDA AI Startups Be The New Claude Of Chip Design?
ChipAgents is partnering with Nvidia to create an agentic AI platform to accelerate chip design A few months ago I wrote an article on Forbes about Cadence Design SuperAgents that front-end the company's chip design tools to speed elements of the…
AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
Vibe coding startup Superblocks announced a multi-year joint marketing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables its tool to be embedded within the private clouds of AWS customers. That means an enterprise on AWS that subscribes to…
Nvidia, Dell Back AI Cloud Startup Volta at $2.4 Billion Value
Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new artificial intelligence cloud company, has raised $300 million in venture funding and secured an additional $5 billion worth of financing to help a wider mix of technology companies gain access to costly AI chips.
Exclusive | AI Startup Multiplier Takes on Big Four Accounting, With a Private Equity Twist
Artificial intelligence startup Multiplier Holdings has raised $35 million to build a rival to the Big Four accounting firms in a transaction that values the company at $300 million. The General Partnership, a venture firm also known as TheGP, led…
SpaceX's new Starfall program offers validation and competition for reentry startups
Demand for microgravity research and manufacturing is brewing — perhaps literally. When SpaceX launched the first test flight of Starfall, its commercial reentry capsule, on June 23, the company did not disclose what payloads, if any, were…
This Startup Wants More Shoppers To 'Daydream' Their Next Outfit
Daydream, an AI -powered fashion search and discovery platform, has recently launched a new pilot program that allows fashion brands and retailers to bring the company's natural-language search and visual discovery technology directly to their own…
AI startup Reforged Labs shuts down as the 'gap we were selling into is closing'
Generative AI platform Reforged Labs is shutting down after three years due to challenges scaling beyond the gaming sector. Founded in 2023, the company provided AI technology for 'creative strategy and performance marketing in mobile gaming'.
VC Money Floods Into US Nuclear Startups As AI Power Demand Explodes
Global VC funding for nuclear fission and fusion startups has already topped $4.5 billion across 81 companies in 2026, on pace to beat 2025's $6.2 billion record. Big Tech figures including Sam Altman and Bill Gates are pouring money into fusion to…
‘Apple is getting this wrong,' says OpenAI - startup blasts iPhone maker over lawsuit alleging it stole confidential information through ex-Apple employees
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in July, alleging that the latter stole trade secrets through former Apple employees. The startup has finally publicly responded to the lawsuit today, posting a blog post on its website titled, “Apple is…
Exclusive: Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo discusses her battle with POTS and her startup's plans to cure it with AI and 3,500 vials of blood (so far)
When Fidji Simo announced she was leavin g her role as one of the most senior members of OpenAI's leadership team after a seven year battle with her chronic illness, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, or POTS, the news felt unexpectedly…
How Clean Cement Startups Are Riding the AI Boom
For the last few years, there's been just one story dominating the economy, Silicon Valley, and much of the climate tech world too: artificial intelligence. It has consumed investor's time and money, leaving relatively little for the rest of the…
Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) Backs $312 Million Funding Round For AI Chip Startup Olix
Arm Holdings (NASDAQ: ARM) has joined a $312 million funding round for artificial-intelligence chip startup Olix, pushing the private company's valuation to $3.3 billion, iBusiness.News reported on Monday. The investment gives Arm strategic…
Israeli startup Zenity bags $125M in funding to build the security layer for AI agents
Artificial intelligence security startup Zenity Ltd. said today it has closed on a $125 million Series C round of funding to expand its platform, which secures autonomous agents in production across large global organizations. Today's round was led…
Pentagon's counter-drone hub picked software startup Kaizen to develop c-UAS marketplace for $15M
The Pentagon task force responsible for quickly expanding counter-drone technology across the military and other U.S. agencies chose Kaizen, a four-year-old software company, to develop a digital marketplace for unmanned aerial system defense…
Cathie Wood Bought Cerebras Systems Stock the Same Week the AI Chip Startup's Shares Fell More Than 58% From Their First-Day IPO Pop
One of the hottest IPOs of the year cooled considerably after publishing its first earnings report as a publicly traded company. Cathie Wood's Ark Invest pounced on the stock's weakness to bolster its position. I'm talking about Cerebras Systems…
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