OpenAI Nears $100B Funding at $850B Valuation
The largest private funding round in history brings SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and Microsoft together in a bet on AGI
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Temporal Raises $300M to Solve the Problem Nobody Talks About: AI Agents That Crash
The durable execution platform hit $5 billion valuation as enterprises discover that deploying AI agents is easy -- keeping them running is the hard part.
Moonshot AI Seeks $10 Billion Valuation Just Weeks After $4.3B Round
Chinese AI startup Moonshot, maker of the Kimi chatbot, is raising again at more than double its December valuation. Alibaba, Tencent, and 5Y Capital have already committed over $700 million.
Amazon Building AI Content Marketplace for Publishers
AWS pitches a platform where media companies can license content to AI firms, following Microsoft's lead in the race to legitimize training data.
Blackstone Leads $1.2 Billion Investment in India's Neysa to Build AI Compute Independence
Private equity giant Blackstone bets on India's AI ambitions with largest-ever funding round in Indian AI sector, backing GPU cloud platform Neysa.
Cohere Hits $240M Revenue, Quietly Building the Enterprise AI Company That Might Actually IPO
While OpenAI and Anthropic grab headlines, Cohere surpassed its revenue target and is positioning for a 2026 IPO with a differentiated enterprise playbook.
Nebius Pays $275 Million for Tavily, Betting That AI Agents Need Their Own Search Engine
The ex-Yandex AI cloud company acquires a one-year-old Israeli startup to bring real-time web search into its platform for autonomous AI agents.
Apptronik Closes $935M Series A to Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots
Austin startup raises nearly $1 billion with backing from Google, Mercedes-Benz, John Deere, and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund to bring its Apollo humanoid to factories and warehouses.
Salesforce Cuts 1,000 Jobs - Including From the AI Team It Called 'Foundational to Our Future'
Salesforce quietly laid off nearly 1,000 workers across marketing, product, and its own Agentforce AI unit. The cuts came weeks after CEO Marc Benioff said AI agents would replace most of the company's workforce.