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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…
Why AI Agent Startups Are Becoming The New Solo-Founder Playbook
AI Startup Founder Talking About Innovations in the World of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models. Young Caucasian Man Talking About Future Technology Insights on Stage at a Global Event Solo-founded startups have surged from 23.7% of…
A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
It's so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists who drop into a company to get its AI systems up and running — are springing up to help…
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…
This fusion startup just raised another $1 billion for its first commercial power plant
For decades, fusion energy has seemed just out of reach. The technology, which could provide cheap clean energy around the clock, still isn't proven. But companies are now betting that it's ready to finally leave the lab. Last month, the MIT…
Exclusive | Cyber Startup Horizon3.ai Raises $250 Million
Ethical hacker-for-hire Horizon3.ai has raised $250 million in late-stage funding, looking to ride a wave of corporate fear over cyberattacks supercharged by Anthropic's Mythos and other frontier artificial-intelligence models. The funding, a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Dating App Startup Pitch Decks Reveal How 18 Founders Raised Millions - News Anyway
A new wave of consumer social startups has published the dating app startup pitch decks they used to raise millions from investors, as founders tackle loneliness, dating app fatigue, and the limits of existing professional networking tools.
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