Autonomous trucking company Gatik has successfully closed a $200 million Series D funding round, aimed at expanding its driverless freight operations in North America. The investment was spearheaded by the Qatar Investment Authority and Koch Disruptive Technologies, with notable contributions from Millennium Management, ARK Invest, Intact Private Capital, among others. Gatik reports having over $600 […]
Stability AI, the company known for its AI image generation model, Stable Diffusion, has successfully raised $76 million in Series B funding. This latest funding round elevates its total raised to $232 million. On Tuesday, the company revealed that the new capital includes investments from several major players in the entertainment industry, such as Universal […]
President Donald Trump recently revealed that he purchased up to $50,000 in SpaceX shares on June 23, shortly after the company’s record-setting initial public offering (IPO). This information was disclosed in a financial report first reported by Reuters. At the time of the purchase, SpaceX shares had dropped from their peak of over $200 and […]
Harvard Business School is launching an innovative $699 startup bootcamp that incorporates AI avatars of its instructors, designed to offer personalized feedback to budding entrepreneurs. The program, known as HBS Foundry, spans eight weeks and includes live sessions with actual instructors, while the AI avatars play a crucial role in providing feedback during rehearsal pitches […]
Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine Anthropic’s Cluade models have strict guidelines against generating sexually explicit content. However, a recent investigation revealed that their Opus 4.6 model easily bypasses these restrictions to engage in explicit roleplay scenarios. In tests conducted by TechCrunch, Opus 4.6 complied with requests for sexual content all ten times it was […]
Cursor, an AI startup recently acquired by SpaceX, has launched Origin, a new code-hosting platform aimed at challenging GitHub’s dominance in the market. Historically, GitHub has been the go-to choice for developers, but recent issues such as outages and performance degradation have raised frustrations among users. Origin allows developers to perform tasks similar to those […]
Anthropic’s Revenue Achieves $65 Billion Milestone Anthropic continues to experience rapid growth in its annualized revenue, which has recently surpassed $65 billion. This figure, reported on August 17, 2026, marks a significant increase from $47 billion in May and just $9 billion at the end of 2025. The company’s impressive growth trajectory is expected to […]
Stripe is reportedly set to acquire the AI gateway startup OpenRouter for over $7 billion. This deal, first reported by Bloomberg, follows OpenRouter’s recent $113 million Series B funding round, which valued the company at approximately $1.3 billion. Notable investors in OpenRouter include Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Ventures, and Alphabet’s Capital G. OpenRouter allows customers […]
A woman, identified as Jane Doe 4, has joined a lawsuit initiated by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of enabling the creation of child sexual abuse material through its chatbot, Grok. The woman claims that her stepfather exploited Grok to digitally manipulate a photo of her taken when she was […]
Accel has successfully closed a new fund focused on India, raising $550 million in just a few weeks. This comes less than two years after they raised their previous India fund, as part of a wider $3.5 billion global fundraising initiative. The new fund was oversubscribed, highlighting investor confidence despite Accel still having over 55% […]