Cohere Acquires Aleph Alpha in $20B Sovereign AI Deal
Cohere acquires Germany's Aleph Alpha at a $20B combined valuation, backed by a €500M Schwarz Group commitment, to build a transatlantic challenger for sovereign enterprise AI.
Articles Tagged "Startups"
Best AI Tools for Startups 2026 - 6 Compared
Six AI tools every startup should know in 2026, compared on pricing, features, and honest trade-offs across productivity, pitching, CRM, writing, analytics, and meeting intelligence.
Bezos's Physical AI Lab Hits $38B After $10B Round
Project Prometheus has closed a $10 billion funding round at a $38 billion valuation, with BlackRock and JPMorgan backing Bezos's bet on physical AI for industry.
Fermi CEO and CFO Exit - $20B Nuclear AI Bet Implodes
Fermi America's CEO and CFO both departed as the nuclear-powered AI data center startup collapsed 83% from its IPO high with no revenue and no anchor tenant.
Factory Raises $150M to Scale Enterprise AI Droids
Factory closed a $150M Series C at a $1.5B valuation to expand its Droids - autonomous agents that handle the full software development lifecycle, not just code generation.
OpenClaw Passes The Fake-Star Audit - Mostly
We ran our fake-star methodology against OpenClaw and 10 ecosystem variants, sampling 361,000-star profiles and fork ratios. The main repo looks clean. Most clones look clean. One repo with 6,532 claimed stars has vanished.
Cal.com Closes Its Source Code, Blames AI Hackers
Cal.com moved its core codebase to a private repo after five years of open source, arguing AI tools make public code 5-10x easier to exploit. The community isn't buying it.
A Shoe Company Ditched Shoes for GPUs and Surged 373%
Allbirds sold its entire footwear business for $39 million - roughly 1% of its $4 billion peak valuation - and is rebranding as NewBird AI to buy GPUs and rent compute to AI developers. The stock quadrupled in a day.
Leaked Screenshots Show Anthropic Building a Lovable Killer
Leaked Claude screenshots reveal a full-stack app builder with templates, live preview, one-click publishing, and built-in databases - putting Anthropic on a direct collision course with Lovable's $6.6 billion vibe-coding empire.
Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.
Perplexity Hits $450M ARR After Agents Pivot
Perplexity's annual recurring revenue crossed $450M in March after a 50% single-month jump driven by its Computer agent platform - not search.
Eclipse Raises $1.3B to Back and Build Physical AI
Eclipse Ventures closed two funds totaling $1.3B to build and back physical AI companies in robotics, defense, and manufacturing as investor conviction shifts from software to machines.
