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Chinese VC Firms Rush to Raise Funds After Three-Year Drought
Managers are capitalizing on investors' desire to 'hedge' against US market bets, the FT reports.
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Index Ventures Closes $2 Billion Across Three Funds as European VC Doubles Down on AI
The new capital includes a $400 million seed fund, a $900 million venture fund, and $700 million added to its growth vehicle, bringing Index's total deployable capital to $3.5 billion.
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VIP Deep Dive: Procore's $845M DroneDeploy Acquisition and the Rise of the Construction Intelligence Stack
Procore will integrate DroneDeploy's visual intelligence technology to link the digital world with physical construction sites - here's what the deal means.
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Stability AI Closes $500M Series D Led by Google and Amazon at a $7B Valuation
The new round, which closed late last week, more than doubles Stability's valuation from two years ago. The company says the capital will fund a multi-modal video model and a self-hosted enterprise tier.
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Smallest.ai Raises $13M Series A for Real-Time Enterprise Voice AI, Led by Seligman Ventures
The startup's low-latency voice AI platform for financial services, healthcare, and contact centers brings its total funding past $21 million.
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Apollo and Blackstone Close a $35 Billion AI Compute Deal — The Largest Private-Credit Transaction in History
A special-purpose vehicle called AI XPV will finance Anthropic's compute expansion by funding Google's custom TPU fleet. The structure is a template for the next phase of AI infrastructure.
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P-1 AI Raises $50 Million Series A Led by NEA for 'Archie,' an Agentic AI Engineer for Hardware
The startup's flagship product Archie automates mechanical, electrical, thermal, and systems design, one of the first agentic AI plays aimed at hardware engineering rather than code.
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Anthropic in Critical IPO Window: Valuation May Break $1 Trillion, Karpathy Hire Tightens Siege on OpenAI
Anthropic is in a critical IPO window, having brought in OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy to lead Claude pre-training. The combination of 「intercepting compute, absorbing the toolchain, and recruiting Karpathy」 intensifies the offensive against OpenAI.
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Forbes 2026 AI 50 List: OpenAI + Anthropic Total $242.6B, ~80% of List Total
Forbes has released the 2026 AI 50 list, with listed companies raising a cumulative $305.6B, of which OpenAI and Anthropic together account for $242.6B, approximately 80% of the list's total. Other listed companies include Physical Intelligence, Mistral, Suno, and Reflection.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Open Weights: Concerned About China AI, Not Opposed to Open Source
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly addressed the open weights controversy: he expressed concern about China's AI development, but is not opposed to the open weights route itself, advocating instead for safety audits and export controls to address risk.
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Fish Audio Closes $50 Million Seed Round: Betting on the AI Voice Track
AI voice company Fish Audio has announced a $50 million seed round to build high-quality AI voice models for creators and enterprises, covering audiobooks, podcasts, dubbing, and game NPC voice scenarios.
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Europe VC Market Q1 Reset: Fewer Deals, Larger Average Size, Cloover as Representative Case
European tech companies raised a combined €7.5 billion in March 2026, compared with €7.8 billion in February. The quarter overall shows a 「fewer deals, larger average size」 reset, with billion-dollar rounds such as Cloover as representative cases.
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VIP Deep Dive: How a $965B Anthropic Plans to Beat OpenAI with a Single Karpathy Move
Karpathy's switch + $65B Series H + the critical IPO window: Anthropic's three-step combination is building a moat. This article deeply analyzes the capital layout, Karpathy's strategic value, and 2027 IPO valuation projections.
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OpenAI Acquires AI Chip Startup Solaris Silicon for $2B
OpenAI's largest acquisition to date brings an in-house inference chip team in-house, signaling a direct challenge to NVIDIA's grip on AI compute.
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This AI Startup Just Raised $500M to Replace Google Search
Exa, formerly known as Metaphor Systems, has closed the largest Series B in AI history with a bold mission: building the first AI-native search engine that could challenge Google's dominance.
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Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Batch: The 10 Most Interesting Companies
From AI-powered drug discovery to autonomous construction robots, YC's latest batch showcases the cutting edge of startup innovation. We picked the ten companies to watch.
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Why Enterprise AI Startups Are the Hottest Investment in 2026
Venture capital is flooding into startups that sell AI tools to businesses. With $47 billion invested in the first half of 2026 alone, enterprise AI has become the fastest-growing category in tech.
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From Garage to $1B: How Perplexity Became the Anti-Google
The inside story of how a small team of ex-Google and ex-DeepMind researchers built the fastest-growing search product in two decades — and why Google is finally paying attention.