XCENA Raises $135M — AI’s Bottleneck Is Memory, Not Compute
XCENA raised $135M Series B at $570M valuation for MX1, a chip placing compute inside DRAM to eliminate the memory round trip bottlenecking AI inference.
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Vertu Launches Alpha Fold — The Luxury Foldable With Native AI Agent
Luxury phone maker VERTU has launched the ALPHAFOLD, a foldable smartphone that embeds the Hermes Agent AI system directly into the device at the…
Replit Gets Visa Investment, Brings Payments to AI Coding Platform
Replit and Visa announced a strategic investment and partnership that brings Visa’s payment infrastructure inside Replit’s AI-native development platform PRNewswire reports. The deal lets…
OpenRouter Hits $1.3B Valuation—Google’s CapitalG Leads $113M Round
OpenRouter raised $113M at a $1.3B valuation led by Google's CapitalG as the AI API gateway revenue surged from $10 million to $50 million in five…
Adcock’s $700M Hark Bet—The Same Founder Now Runs Two AI Unicorns
Figure AI founder Brett Adcock raised $700M at a $6B valuation for Hark — a consumer AI hardware lab. He now runs two companies worth $45B…
Karpathy Left OpenAI Twice—Now He’s Building Anthropic’s Pre-Training
OpenAI co-founder Karpathy joins Anthropic to lead pre-training acceleration with Claude. Cyber veteran Chris Rohlf also joins the frontier red team.
Cerebras Hit $60B—After Burning $200M on a Problem Nobody Thought Solvable
Cerebras hit $60B after its IPO, but nearly died in 2019 burning $8M monthly on a packaging problem the semiconductor industry had failed to solve for…
Brockman Takes the Wheel at OpenAI—The Cofounder’s Product Purge Begins
OpenAI president Greg Brockman is officially running product strategy, merging ChatGPT and Codex as the company kills side quests and races toward agentic AI.
Anduril Doubles to $61B Valuation—Defense Tech Is Having Its Moment
Anduril raised $5B in a Series H led by Thrive Capital and a16z, doubling its valuation to $61B. Defense tech startups are on track for $13.6B…
Helsing’s $18B Round Rides a €1.46B Drone Contract—Europe’s Defense AI Shift
Helsing is raising $1.2B at $18B. The real story: a €1.46B German drone contract backs the valuation—and signals Europe’s shift to AI-native defense.