Groq Raises $650M to Pivot From Chip Maker to Cloud
After licensing its chip technology to Nvidia for $20 billion, Groq is raising $650M from existing investors to rebuild itself as an AI inference cloud provider.
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Cognition Raises $1B at $25B as Devin Hits $492M ARR
Cognition's $1B funding round at a $25B pre-money valuation puts Devin's $492M ARR and model-agnostic architecture under scrutiny as every major AI lab ships its own coding agent.
AI Startups Are Gaming Revenue and VCs Look Away
AI founders are reporting contracted ARR as actual revenue, inflating public figures by 3-5x - and their investors know it.
Brett Adcock's Hark Raises $700M for AI Interface
Brett Adcock's AI lab Hark has closed a $700M Series A at a $6B valuation before shipping a single product, with chip companies AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA all backing the bet.
Best AI Tools for Founders and CEOs in 2026
Eight AI tools that give founders and CEOs a real productivity edge in 2026 - with verified pricing, honest trade-offs, and three stack configurations.
LetinAR Scores $18M for the Optics Behind AI Glasses
South Korean startup LetinAR raises $18.5M to scale its PinTILT optical modules, which already power AI glasses and AR helmets as shipments hit 8.7 million units globally in 2025.
SubQ Review: 52x Faster, but Show Your Work
Subquadratic's SubQ claims the first linear-scaling LLM with a 12M-token window - but private beta access, self-reported benchmarks, and a 17-point MRCR gap make independent verification the only test that matters.
Google Turns to SpaceX for Orbital AI Data Centers
Bloomberg reports Google is in talks with SpaceX to launch its Project Suncatcher satellites - TPU-equipped spacecraft designed to run ML workloads in low Earth orbit.
SubQ
SubQ is the first LLM built on a fully subquadratic attention architecture, achieving a 12M-token research context and 52x faster inference than FlashAttention at 1M tokens.
Vapi Raises $50M After Amazon Ring Picks It Over 40 Rivals
Vapi closes a $50M Series B at $500M valuation after Amazon Ring routed 100% of its inbound calls through the platform, chosen over 40 competing voice AI vendors.
Cowboy Space Raises $275M to Build Its Own Rockets
Baiju Bhatt's orbital AI compute startup raises $275M at a $2B valuation and plans to build its own rockets to bypass SpaceX and Blue Origin bottlenecks.
SubQ Launches: 12M-Token Context on Sub-Quadratic AI
Subquadratic exits stealth with SubQ, the first frontier model built on a sparse-attention architecture, a $29M seed round, and a 12M-token context window that costs a fraction of Opus.
