Travel booking app Hopper hit with 35 million FTC penalty over hidden fee practices
The Federal Trade Commission has secured a $35 million settlement from travel booking app Hopper over allegations that it misled…
Inside Together AI’s $800M bet that neoclouds will eat the AI infrastructure market
Together AI, the neocloud provider that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and AI infrastructure, has raised an $800 million Series…
SpaceX reportedly cooking up an AI handset — and Musk is already denying it
Elon Musk's SpaceX has reportedly shown investors a prototype of a sleek, handset-like AI device, according to The Wall Street…
British-U.S. startup Build raises €7.4 million for agentic real estate platform
Build, a British-U.S. startup building an AI-native infrastructure platform for governments, developers, and investors, has raised €7.4 million ($8.5…
Global agtech startups choose Nebraska for new Spur Startup Sandbox validation program
Nebraska has quietly become a magnet for agtech startups looking to validate their technologies in real farm conditions. Now a…
Apptronik opens Robot Park in Austin to train humanoid robots for real-world jobs
Before humanoid robots can clock in at factories and warehouses, they have to go to school. Apptronik, the Texas-based startup…
Propeller launches Kernel Camp, bringing MENA AI startups to Silicon Valley
Propeller, a venture capital firm focused on AI infrastructure, has wrapped up Kernel Camp, its inaugural deep-tech residency program that…
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, the billionaire venture capitalist and All-In podcast co-host, announced Monday that his AI coding startup 8090 Labs has…
Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Y Combinator-backed Pocket has raised $11 million from Accel, Y Combinator, and ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski, betting that dedicated hardware…
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
The AI model leaderboard platform Arena, which began as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has hit $100…