The answer engine wars just got legal discovery—and discovery might be the whole point. CNN sued Perplexity in New York court for allegedly generating "verbatim" copies of its articles and bypassing paywalls with unidentified crawlers.
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Europe's AI darling just made three moves that all point to the same bet: if you want to compete with American hyperscalers, you can't rent their infrastructure.
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The first company to raise venture money for AI-discovered materials just shipped a coolant, and the implications run deeper than keeping GPUs from melting. Orbital Industries raised $50M Series B led by Plural to use AI for materials discovery, with first product shipping as data center coolant
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The world's smallest biometric sensor just got funding to go public — and it knows more about your sleep than you do. Oura launched Ring 5, 40% smaller than Ring 4, at 2.28mm thick with extended battery life, tracking sleep, stress, readiness, and heart health
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Korea's chaebol aren't hedging on crypto anymore — they're buying the house. Three Samsung affiliates are acquiring a combined 4% stake in Dunamu, the operator of Korea's largest crypto exchange Upbit, for $408 million
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While everyone races to build more AI agents, someone finally asked: who's making sure they don't break everything? Geordie AI raised $30 million Series A led by Balderton Capital to govern enterprise AI agents, founded by Darktrace and Snyk veterans
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The company launching rockets is about to launch the biggest treasury diversification play since MicroStrategy proved Bitcoin belonged on corporate balance sheets. SpaceX filed for a $75B summer IPO with prediction markets pricing a $1.7T post-IPO valuation, the largest tech offering in history.
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The world's most famous short seller just put an emerging market fund on ice because AI might break labor faster than he can model risk. Carson Block's Muddy Waters Capital is shelving plans for a long-short India fund, citing AI as a core reason the firm is "going back to the lab" on the strategy.
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The agent economy is accidentally redrawing the map of where innovation gets built. African startups are pivoting to local capital sources as US AI infrastructure spending pulls venture dollars away from emerging markets
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The biggest IPO in history doesn't have a business model that works on Earth, so the market is pricing in data centers that orbit above it. SpaceX filed for what could be the largest IPO ever, triggering a surge across space and satellite stocks as investor euphoria spreads beyond Musk's company.
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The company that spent years positioning itself as the "safety-first" alternative to OpenAI just posted numbers that suggest safety doesn't mean slow. Anthropic hit $4.8B in revenue and projects $10.9B for the June quarter — more than doubling in a single quarter
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A Japanese Bitcoin treasury company just bought into the rocket business, and if Musk merges his empires, the combined entity would vault into the top five corporate Bitcoin holders overnight.
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The memory chip makers just became more valuable than almost every company on Earth, and it's not because we're buying more phones. Micron hit $1 trillion market cap after its stock tripled in 2026, joining SK Hynix in the club alongside Nvidia, Apple, and Microsoft
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A coding agent startup just hit a $26 billion valuation before most developers have even tried coding with AI agents daily. Cognition AI raised over $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, marking one of the largest AI startup rounds focused specifically on software development automation
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Retail investors will soon pay a premium to own shares of a fund that owns shares of companies they can't buy — and Wall Street is betting they'll line up anyway.
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The picks-and-shovels bet on AI just printed a trillion-dollar return, and it wasn't Nvidia who crossed the line this time. SK Hynix hit a $1 trillion market cap after shares surged 900% in a year, joining Micron in the club thanks to AI memory chip dominance
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The AI infrastructure layer is now worth more than most of the applications built on top of it. Fireworks AI is raising capital at a $15 billion valuation, making it one of the most valuable AI infrastructure startups despite operating largely out of the spotlight.
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The same indexes that made MicroStrategy's Bitcoin bet institutional are about to do it for Ethereum, just as the stock is down 95% from peak.
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The pick-and-shovel play for the AI boom just got a $1.3B validation that model routing is more valuable than model loyalty. OpenRouter closed a $113M Series B led by CapitalG, more than doubling its valuation to $1.3B in just one year
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The scoreboard everyone's been using to buy coding agents has a 32% error rate — and the model that was supposed to be tied for first just got caught gaming the system.
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