Funding 12 min
Sierra Raises 950M to Hit a 15B Enterprise AI Value
Sierra raised 950M led by Tiger Global and GV at a 15B valuation, betting outcome-priced AI agents will replace seat-based customer service software.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
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M&A 12 min
Asana Bets 75M on StackAI to Run Enterprise AI Agents
Asana acquired StackAI for 75 million dollars to own the agent execution layer connecting AI to enterprise ERP, CRM, and IT service systems.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Analysis 12 min
AI Cuts 38,579 Jobs as the Top US Layoff Reason 2026
AI was named in 38,579 US job cuts in May 2026, about 40% of the total and the highest monthly figure on record, topping all other layoff reasons.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Partnership 12 min
IBM Builds Gemini Agents With Thousands of Consultants
IBM and Google Cloud launch a Google Cloud Practice with thousands of certified consultants and Gemini agents, a multi-billion enterprise AI bet.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Funding 12 min
Generalist AI Raises 400M to Build Physical AGI 2026
Generalist AI raised 400M at a 2B valuation from Radical Ventures and Nvidia to build foundation models that run any robot, not one machine.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Funding 12 min
Harness Raises 240M to Hit a 5.5B AI Valuation 2026
Harness raised 240M led by Goldman Sachs at a 5.5B valuation to automate the testing, security, and deployment work AI coding tools ignore.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
OpenAI Codex Sites Builds Internal Web Apps in 2026
OpenAI Codex Sites lets ChatGPT Business teams build and deploy internal web apps from one prompt, turning a chat plan into an app platform.
Jordan HaleJun 5, 2026
Product Launch 13 min
Microsoft Launches AI Terminal to Rival Warp in 2026
Microsoft Intelligent Terminal launches as an open-source AI agent shell backing Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, taking on Warp for developers in 2026.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 13 min
Microsoft Agent Store Undercuts Apple at 85% Payout
Microsoft Agent Store pays developers an 85 percent revenue share, triple the Apple and Google cut, to win the AI agent race inside 400M Windows seats.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Model Release 13 min
Microsoft Polaris Ends OpenAI Reliance in Copilot 2026
Microsoft Polaris replaces GPT-4 Turbo as the default GitHub Copilot model in August 2026, running on in-house Maia chips and cutting OpenAI reliance.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Meta Launches AI Agent to Run WhatsApp Business 2026
Meta launched an agentic AI assistant at its London Conversations event that books appointments and closes sales across WhatsApp and Instagram.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 11 min
Town Raises $55M to Build an AI Chief of Staff 2026
Town raised a $55M Series A led by a16z to build an AI chief of staff that learns your email, calendar, and Slack with no setup or prompting.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Anthropic Files S-1 and Signals a $965B AI IPO 2026
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, targeting an October IPO at a $965B valuation that tops OpenAI on a $47B run-rate.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
CrowdStrike Beats But Stock Sinks 13% on AI Guidance
CrowdStrike beat Q1 estimates with $1.39 billion revenue and record cash flow, but in-line guidance and a 4-for-1 split sent the shares down 13%.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Broadcom AI Revenue Doubles to $10.8B as Orders Surge
Broadcom AI chip revenue surged 143% to $10.8 billion in fiscal Q2 2026 and Q3 guidance points to $16 billion, yet the stock still fell on the news.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Marvell Breaks Records With 32% Jump on Huang AI Call
Marvell stock jumped 32.5% to a record high after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it the next trillion dollar company at Computex 2026 in Taipei.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Amazon Launches AWS Shopping AI for Any Retailer 2026
Amazon opens its AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant to outside retailers, with Kate Spade first to deploy a gift concierge built on Bedrock AgentCore.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Walmart Cuts Code Puppy AI Use as ROI Doubts Grow 2026
Walmart caps employee tokens on its Code Puppy AI agent as adoption outpaces returns, with 40% of firms reporting under 10% savings.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Meta Undercuts ChatGPT With a $7.99 AI Plan in 2026
Meta launches Meta One Plus at $7.99 and Premium at $19.99 a month, undercutting ChatGPT Plus and Google AI Pro in the consumer AI race.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Regulation 12 min
EU Sovereignty Act Cuts US Cloud From State AI Data
The EU sovereignty package would bar US clouds from sensitive public data and triple data center capacity, targeting 80 percent foreign tech reliance.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Focused Energy Raises 240M for AI Era Fusion Power
Focused Energy raised a record 240 million dollar Series A for laser fusion as AI power demand turns utilities into fusion energy backers.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
SoftBank Bets 75B Euros to Build 5GW France AI Hub
SoftBank will invest up to 75 billion euros to build 5 gigawatts of AI data centers in France by 2031, its largest European infrastructure bet ever.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 12 min
Meta Builds Enterprise AI Unit to Embed Engineers 2026
Meta formed an Enterprise Solutions unit and a business agent, embedding forward-deployed engineers in client firms to drive corporate AI adoption.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Partnership 12 min
UBTECH Builds MetaX Chip JV to Power Humanoids 2026
UBTECH built a chip JV with MetaX and Zhejiang Fenglong to make embodied edge AI processors for humanoid robots, eyeing 10,000 units in 2026.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Orbital Raises $50M with Nvidia to Design AI Materials 2026
Orbital raised $50M led by Plural with Nvidia backing to scale Orb, an AI model that simulates 100,000 atoms on one GPU and designs new materials fast.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Sysdig Reveals First Autonomous AI Agent Cyberattack 2026
Sysdig documented the first autonomous AI agent intrusion in the wild, an LLM that breached a Python notebook and stole an AWS database in under an hour.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Cognition Devin Raises $1B at a $26B AI Coding Valuation
Cognition raised $1B at a $26B valuation as Devin revenue jumped 13x to a $492M run rate, with 89 percent of its own code now written by its AI agent.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 13 min
Nvidia Spectrum-X CPO Switch Cuts AI Power 3.5x 2026
Nvidia began shipping Spectrum-X co-packaged optics switches that move 409.6 Tb/s and cut AI data center networking power up to 3.5x, available in H2 2026.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 13 min
Microsoft Solara Replaces Apps With AI Agent Devices 2026
Microsoft unveiled Project Solara at Build 2026, an Android platform for enterprise devices that run AI agents instead of apps, piloted by CVS and Target.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Regulation 13 min
DARPA AI Forge Builds 15 National Security AI Bets 2026
DARPA and NSF launched AI Forge on June 1 to fund 15 national security AI problems in interpretability, control, and adversarial robustness.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Arpio Raises 15M to Automate AI-Era Cloud Recovery 2026
Arpio raised $15M led by S3 Ventures and Paladin Capital to scale its AI-native cloud recovery platform across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Uncover Raises 16M to Win AI Marketing Mix in 2026
Uncover raised $16M led by Cloud9 Capital to scale its AI marketing mix modeling platform, already profitable with clients like Unilever and Reckitt.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Terra AI Raises 20M to Map Critical Minerals in 2026
Terra AI raised $20M led by Khosla Ventures and BHP Ventures to scale generative geological modeling for critical mineral and energy exploration.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Partnership 13 min
JAL Bets on $15K Unitree Humanoids at Haneda Airport
Japan Airlines deployed Unitree humanoids at Haneda for about $15,400 per unit on a three-year deal, a price that brings practical humanoids mainstream.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Sunday Robotics Raises $165M to Build Home Humanoid Memo
Sunday Robotics raised $165M Series B at a $1.15B valuation for Memo, a household humanoid built to do laundry, clear tables, and wash dishes by late 2026.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Model Release 13 min
Gemini 3.5 Flash Beats Pro at 76% on Terminal Bench
Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash scores 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, the first Flash-tier model to beat its own Pro tier on coding and agentic tasks.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Humans& Raises $480M in the Biggest AI Seed of 2026
Humans& raised $480M at a $4.48B valuation, the second-largest seed ever, betting a human-centric AI lab can rival OpenAI on talent alone.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Exa Raises $250M and Triples to a 2.2B AI Search Bet
Exa raised $250M at a $2.2B valuation to build the search and retrieval layer that AI agents depend on, tripling its worth in seven months.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Model Release 12 min
Meta Muse Spark Delay Signals a Llama Crisis in 2026
Meta has repeatedly delayed its Muse Spark API, the developer gateway to its next AI model, as rivals OpenAI and Anthropic ship live and pull ahead.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Forage Raises 40M to Power AI Benefits Payments 2026
Forage raised $40M led by Mouro Capital at a $225M valuation to run SNAP, WIC, and HSA payments across 100,000 stores like Dollar General.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
Oxford Quantum Raises 350M in Record Europe Round 2026
Oxford Quantum Circuits raised £260M ($350M) in Europe's largest private quantum round, led by Bullhound Capital with a £100M state bank anchor.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 13 min
AlphaSense Doubles to 7.5B as AI Research Scales 2026
AlphaSense raised $350M at a $7.5B valuation, nearly double its prior mark, and crossed $600M ARR as 7,000 enterprises adopt its AI research.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 14 min
Figure AI Raises 1B to a 39B Humanoid Robot Bet 2026
Figure raised over 1 billion at a 39 billion valuation, and its humanoid robots are really a data play to build the first physical AI foundation model.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 14 min
Chapter Raises 100M and Doubles to 3B Medicare AI Bet
Chapter raised a 100 million Series E at a 3 billion valuation, tripling Medicare revenue on flat headcount as AI rewires senior financial services.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Product Launch 14 min
ServiceNow Action Fabric Builds a Paid AI Agent Gate 2026
ServiceNow Action Fabric makes every external AI agent pay to reach enterprise data and workflows, turning rival agents into recurring ServiceNow revenue.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Big Tech 12 min
Nvidia Bets on 200B CPU Market With AI Agent PCs 2026
Nvidia is attacking the $200 billion CPU market with its Vera server chip and RTX Spark PC superchip, taking direct aim at Intel and AMD in 2026.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
Funding 12 min
Anthropic Raises 65B and Surpasses OpenAI in AI Race 2026
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H at a $965 billion valuation as its run rate hit $47 billion, overtaking OpenAI as the top AI startup.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026
M&A 12 min
OpenAI Buys Promptfoo and Wins 25% of the Fortune 500
OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, the AI red-teaming platform used by 25% of the Fortune 500, and folding it into its Frontier enterprise platform.
Jordan HaleJun 4, 2026