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Sandbar raises $36 million for Stream voice ring, bets on human control

Sandbar, the startup behind the private voice ring Stream, announced a $36 million funding round to bring a wearable that lets users capture thoughts …

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Cognition again reveals fundraising, now targeting $40 billion valuation
Cognition, the company behind the code-writing agent Devin, is in talks with investors for another financing round. The move comes three months after

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Thrive Holdings raises $2 billion at $12 billion valuation to embed AI in traditional firms
Thrive Holdings closed a $2 billion funding round at a $12 billion valuation, led by SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners and Altimeter Capital. The firm ope

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Chatgpt and gemini each cross a billion users as the race moves to monetisation
Google announced that Gemini, the company’s fourteenth-generation product, reached one billion monthly users. Sundar Pichai posted on X that it is the

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Elon Musk says SpaceX AI revenue will outpace all other income by September
Elon Musk told a SpaceX meeting that the company’s artificial-intelligence revenues will exceed all other sources of income by September. He added tha

Labs12.08.2026
River AI raises $1.1 billion two months after founding to rebuild AI stack
River AI’s distinguishing claim is not the size of its $1.1 billion raise but the assertion that every component of model training must be rebuilt fro

Labs11.08.2026
OpenAI lets employees cash in $7 billion of shares, pushes back IPO
OpenAI completed a $7 billion tender offer that lets employees monetize their equity and obtain liquidity without taking the company public. Bloomberg

Labs11.08.2026
Discovered materials raises $9 million seed to cool next-gen AI chips
Discovered Materials, a startup founded by Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas, closed a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners after gra

Labs10.08.2026
OpenAI acquires NextSlide and adds its founder to ChatGPT team
OpenAI bought NextSlide, a startup that developed AI technology for creating presentations. The acquisition took place earlier this year but was annou

Labs10.08.2026
Gilat jumps 17% in second-quarter revenue, Comtech deal set to create $2.6 billion company
Gilat Satellite Networks reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $122.7 million, a 17% increase from $105 million in the comparable quarter a year ear

Labs09.08.2026
Philippines' $40 billion outsourcing industry faces AI upheaval by 2026
The sector that employs roughly 1.9 million people and generates $40 billion in revenue is on the cusp of a fundamental shift, according to the BBC: a

Labs07.08.2026
Oligo raises $60 million after breaching Apple and Meta
Three childhood friends from the cyber unit of Aman, Israel's military intelligence directorate, closed a Series B round of $60 million led by Ballist

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