Chinese labs ran 200 million Claude probes, Anthropic says
Anthropic says five campaigns, led by one tied to Alibaba, harvested Claude's reasoning traces at industrial scale.
German fusion startup to build €140M superconducting tape plant
Proxima Fusion plans a €140M plant to make the superconducting tape its reactors depend on.
WordPress parent’s board sidelines Matt Mullenweg in a surprise vote
The Automattic founder says his board put him on paid leave against his will and named the chief financial officer…
Ex-DeepRoute executive’s robot startup PHYMI lands $100M seed
IDG Capital led the round for the embodied AI company, which is building robots meant to work in open, changing…
Chip giants back Ayar Labs with $150M for optical interconnects
AMD, Intel, MediaTek and Nvidia joined the round, which lifts the company's 2026 primary capital to $650M.
Two French software houses merge under Silver Lake in an $11.6B bet
The private equity firm is folding Cegid and Silae into a single group with roughly EUR1.6B in annual revenue and…
Clay’s valuation climbs $2.1B this year on a $115M Series D
Wellington Management led the round for the sales automation startup, which now ranks among the most valuable private go-to-market software…
Reno’s Positron AI banks $875M for memory-first inference
The inference hardware startup raised a Series C co-led by NEA and Atreides as investors bet the AI bottleneck has…
Motive collects $1.3B to wire AI into physical operations
General Catalyst's value fund backed the fleet software maker as investors chase AI applied to the physical economy.
Ethan Thornton’s Mach Industries tops $3.7B after $600M top-up
The Huntington Beach defense manufacturer doubled its valuation in three months as venture money keeps pouring into weapons startups.
