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Minute Media's purchase of AI video startup VideoVerse fell apart after the deal closed, and three separate Delaware lawsuits now accuse founder Vinayak Shrivastav of forging signatures to extract tens of millions.
River AI says it will free users from renting AI from closed labs. General Catalyst, AMP PBC, Temasek and NVIDIA, the money behind that pitch, are also major Anthropic investors.
DeepSeek suspended a second funding round targeting a valuation above $70 billion after comments attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng went viral, days before a planned mainland China IPO.
Cognition paid a low nine-figure sum for texting assistant Poke, its second acquisition in a year, betting that how an AI agent talks matters as much as what it can do.
Etched raised $300M at a $10.3B valuation, doubling its price tag in seven months, even though its transformer-only Sohu chip has yet to ship in volume.
Travis Kalanick's robotics holding company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by a16z and joined by Uber, but unlike every other physical AI unicorn, it won't say what it's worth.
General Compute borrowed $400 million from Upper90 against a fleet of SambaNova SN50 inference chips, the first major AI infrastructure loan not collateralized by Nvidia hardware.
Ex-Google DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55M at a $300M valuation for Elorian, a visual AI lab with no product yet, joining a growing list of frontier labs priced on pedigree alone.
Bengaluru's Emergent raised $130M at a $1.5 billion valuation, five times January's price, betting AI coding agents sell better to small businesses than to developers.
Nous Research is finalizing a round led by Robot Ventures and USV that would value the open-source Hermes agent maker at $1.5 billion, built on a training network that skips traditional data centers entirely.
Nvidia has joined Gradium's seed round while holding a stake in rival ElevenLabs, tying its GPUs to both leaders in the race to own voice AI.
Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a $500M valuation using its own AI agent SivaClaw to handle investor inquiries from 130+ funds - no founders needed on the road.
