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General news and updates from the AI startup ecosystem. Coverage of artificial intelligence industry developments.
Anthropic Labs, a roughly 20-person internal incubator led by cofounder Ben Mann, is building AI products separate from the core Claude roadmap.
Business Insider's profile describes Anthropic Labs as a small internal group operating apart from Anthropic's primary Claude model line, with Mann — one of the company's founding researchers — overse...
Wonderful raises $550M at $5B valuation, more than doubling in six months
Wonderful, the Israeli AI customer-service startup founded in early 2025 by Bar Winkler and Roey Lalazar, closed a $550 million round at a $5 billion valuation last week — more than double the $2 bill...
Moonshot AI Confidentially Files for Hong Kong IPO
Beijing-based foundation model developer Moonshot AI, maker of the Kimi model family, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong, according to people familiar with the matter...
OpenAI Gains U.S. Backing in New York Times Copyright Fight
The Trump administration filed a court letter supporting OpenAI’s fair-use defense in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit. The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023, alleging their models were tra...
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business surpasses $1 billion in annualized revenue just 200 days after launch
OpenAI said its ChatGPT ad business reached $1 billion in annualized recurring revenue (about 1.4 trillion won) as of August 31, under 200 days after it began US ad testing in February 2026 — it had a...
Anthropic previews MHS for laboratory equipment amid a Pentagon court dispute and a $30T market pitch.
Anthropic said it opened a research preview of its Model Hardware Standard (MHS) on August 27, a shared specification for AI agents to operate physical equipment. The initial users are scientific labs...
Sony Music, Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic Over Alleged Piracy-Based Claude Training
Sony Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, and other music publishers filed suit against Anthropic and co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann in the U.S. District Court for the Northern Distric...
Federal judge voids Pentagon blacklist of Anthropic, calls it unconstitutional retaliation
US district judge Rita Lin ruled Thursday that the Pentagon's February 27 designation of Anthropic as a "supply-chain risk" was illegal, vacating the label and a related ban on military contractors do...
Delek Automotive transferred $215 million in Veridis shares to its Delek Motors subsidiary after fur...
Delek Automotive transferred $215 million in Veridis shares to its Delek Motors subsidiary after further write-offs tied to its investment in Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo. Delek Automotive moved NIS 645...
Z.ai and Moonshot AI founders' Tsinghua ties now define a Chinese LLM rivalry
The Wall Street Journal profiled Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, and Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, tracing how the two were once teacher and student at Tsinghua University and now lead two of China'...
Nvidia Tells Major Customers AI Chip Server Prices Are Rising Over 15%
Nvidia has told some of its biggest customers — the companies that build AI data centers for hyperscalers including Oracle and Microsoft — that server prices tied to its AI chips will rise more than 1...
PandaAI closes seed-to-angel-plus rounds worth tens of millions of RMB to build an AI-native quant trading platform.
Li Yuqi, 26, left a partner role at a Chinese quant private fund managing over RMB 1 billion (~$140 million) to found PandaAI in 2024, betting that large language models would erode the traditional qu...
OpenAI Reverses Course, Backs Stronger California AI Safety Bill SB 53
OpenAI's global affairs team posted on LinkedIn calling for California to expand SB 53's safeguards, specifically urging monitoring of frontier models during training and evaluation for potential seri...
Kakao Splits Into Kakao AI and Kakao X to Sharpen Its AI Focus
Kakao's board approved a corporate spin-off on August 21 that divides the company into two entities: Kakao AI and Kakao X. The split ratio is set at 0.36 (Kakao AI) to 0.64 (Kakao X) based on net asse...
OpenAI narrows Anthropic's enterprise lead as business AI spending proves volatile
New data from corporate card and expense platform Ramp shows OpenAI clawing back share of U.S. business AI spending after losing the lead to Anthropic in May. Tracking more than 70,000 American busine...
Micro1 Reaches $500M Gross Run Rate as AI Training Data Demand Surges
AI training-data startup Micro1 has expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in eight months, according to a person familiar with the company. TechCrunch reports that Micro...
Unitree Robotics began trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on August 19, with shares opening at RMB 1,...
Unitree Robotics began trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on August 19, with shares opening at RMB 1,100, up 629% from the IPO price of RMB 150.80, giving the company a market value of approximately RM...
VeriSilicon reports 91% first-half revenue growth as AI orders reach 90% of backlog
Chinese semiconductor design company VeriSilicon posted first-half revenue of RMB 1.864 billion (~$261 million), up 91.37% year on year. As of June 30, the company's orders on hand stood at RMB 12.449...
Manus, the AI agent startup that was briefly acquired by Meta before Beijing forced a reversal, is n...
Manus, the AI agent startup that was briefly acquired by Meta before Beijing forced a reversal, is now returning to independent operations seven months after the deal was unwound. The company has anno...
Anthropic projects revenue between $190-200 billion by 2028, according to the company's latest inter...
Anthropic projects revenue between $190-200 billion by 2028, according to the company's latest internal forecasts. The figure, driven by strong enterprise adoption and strategic partnerships, aligns w...