Gradial raises $65M to be the ‘AI glue’ for enterprise marketing
Every Software Company is Racing to Bolt on AI
Every software company is racing to bolt an AI agent onto its own product. Gradial is betting the real money …
Month: June 2026
Architect Labs raises $24M to let any company design its own AI chip
Designing a chip: A challenging endeavor
Designing a chip is hard. It takes years, hundreds of millions of dollars, and a tiny pool of experts. Most of them …
Nvidia-backed Verse raises $54M to help AI data centres skip the power queue
For years, the scarce resource in AI was chips. Now it’s power.
Verse Enterprises aims to overcome the bottleneck by addressing the new limiting factor—power….
Baseten is raising $1.5bn at up to $13bn, betting AI’s profits lie in cheap inference
Baseten Secures $1.5 Billion Funding Round
Baseten is finalising a $1.5 billion funding round that values the company at up to $13 billion. The structure of t…
An ex-Palantir leader raised $16M to point AI at the NHS’s paperwork, not its doctors
Almost every AI tool aimed at the NHS is built for clinicians
Frontier Health has raised $16M to build tools for the people behind them. The London startup …
85% of NATO’s defence-tech funding goes to the US. AVP and Earlybird raised €500M to change that.
Europe’s Defence Funding Gap
Europe is pledging hundreds of billions to defense, yet almost none of the venture capital funding the technology behind it origi…
While Helsing and Anduril chase billion-dollar valuations, Comand AI raised €32M for the layer above them
Defence-tech Startup Comand AI Secures €32 Million Series A Led by Blossom Capital
The defence-tech landscape is witnessing a new power struggle, transcending…
California expected a tax bonanza from AI IPOs. Modern compensation structures may blunt the windfall.
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic: Billion-Dollar Valuations and California’s Potential Tax Windfall
SpaceX is now valued at $2.5 trillion. OpenAI and Anthro…
The ‘godfather of AI’ called xAI a failure and warned of a bubble. He’s also selling the alternative.
Yann LeCun Critics Elon Musk’s xAI as "Kind of a Failure"
Yann LeCun has never been quiet about his doubts, and his latest target is one of the mo…
Accenture had its worst stock day ever on fears AI is eating consulting. Hours earlier, it spent $4.18bn trying to escape that.
Accenture’s Historic Stock Market Low: A Reflection of AI’s Impact on Consulting
Accenture experienced its worst day in history on the stock market on Thursda…