Coursera Invests $100 Million in Its Chairman’s New Company: Venture Funding and Acquisitions Roundup
The disclosed venture funding announced across the wires on 28 July 2026 came to roughly $201 million. One check accounted for half of it. Strip…
Cameras Are Designed for Human Eyes, and AI Vision Pays the Cost
Almost every image sensor in commercial production is a compromise negotiated with the human retina. The negotiation happened decades ago, it was entirely reasonable at…
Meshy Raised $400 Million at a $1.5 Billion Valuation and Announced It Two Different Ways
Meshy, which generates usable 3D models from a line of text or a single photograph, closed a Series B of nearly $400 million this week.…
Ropedia Raises $30 Million for Physical AI Training Data, But the Dataset Math Doesn’t Hold Up
Singapore-based Ropedia announced today that it has raised US$30 million in pre-A funding to build what it calls data infrastructure for physical AI. The company…
South Korea’s July Chip Exports Surge 180.6% as AI Supercycle Accelerates
South Korea’s exports for the first 20 days of July rose 52.3% from a year earlier to $54.93 billion, according to Korea Customs Service data,…
How CuspAI’s Inverse Design AI Turns Materials Discovery Into a Search Engine
CuspAI just closed a $450 million round and launched an industry coalition around AI-driven materials discovery for chipmaking, but the funding is the least interesting…
Etched in Talks to Raise Funds at $20 Billion Valuation, With a Separate $10 Billion Round Led by Sequoia
Etched, the startup building chips dedicated to running AI inference rather than training, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly…
Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3, Raising the Bar for Open AI Models
Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi K3, its latest flagship large language model, featuring a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. The company says the model delivers performance…
Nvidia’s Open-Source Bet Is Really a Wager on Where AI Margin Settles
The instinct when a frontier AI model gets cheaper is to assume value is being destroyed. It isn’t. Margin in a supply chain behaves less…
TerraFirma Raises $100M Series A to Turn Heavy Construction Equipment Into Robots
TerraFirma, a tech-enabled construction company building semi-autonomous heavy machinery, has raised approximately $115 million, anchored by a $100 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins.…
PrismML, the Startup That Shrinks AI Models to Run on an iPhone, Is in Talks With Apple
A small Caltech spinout called PrismML has done something that looked implausible a year ago: it compressed a 27-billion-parameter large language model down small enough…
OpenAI’s First Device Will Be a Moveable, Screenless AI Companion Speaker
OpenAI’s long-anticipated move into hardware is finally taking shape, and it isn’t the iPhone rival many expected. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, citing people familiar…
IBM’s 25% Stock Fall Is Beginning of the End for Old School Software Giant
IBM just had its worst trading day in at least 58 years. Shares closed down more than 25% on July 14, 2026, wiping out over…
Why a Six-Axis Robot Arm Is Staring at a Green-Headed Tanager
An ABB IRB 1100 six-axis arm sits bolted to a demo table, a HikRobot area-scan camera clamped where a gripper would normally go, its ring…
Industrial Robotics Meets the AI Boom: What Cobots at Trade Shows Are Really Selling
Walk any major tech expo floor this year and the pattern repeats itself: a crowd gathers not around a laptop demo, but around a robot…
Microsoft Trims 5,500 Jobs to Defend a $190 Billion Capital Program
Microsoft will cut fewer than 5,500 jobs next week — under 2.5 percent of a 220,000-person workforce — across sales, consulting, and its Xbox division,…
South Korea Commits $590 Billion to Double Its Memory Chip Capacity
South Korea unveiled a 911 trillion won (~$590 billion) semiconductor investment plan on Monday, anchored by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with the stated aim…
HyperLight Closes $80M to Move TFLN From Lab to Foundry
HyperLight has closed an $80 million Series C led by MediaTek, with participation from UMC Capital, Jabil, Foxconn, EDBI, CDIB-TEN Capital, and the Qatar Investment…
Odyssey Raises $310M to Build World Models on AWS Trainium
Odyssey, the Palo Alto world-model lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has raised a $310 million Series B at a $1.45…
Apple After WWDC 2026: 35% of iPhone Volume Can’t Run Siri AI Yet
Apple unveiled the biggest AI overhaul in its history on June 8, hit an all-time high while the keynote was still running, and then sold…
The Semiconductor Rotation Myth: There Is No Rotation Out of Semi Stocks, Only Profit-Taking
Every violent down day in semiconductors produces the same headline within hours: “investors rotate out of chips.” It happened again after June 5, when the…
The AI Selloff Repriced Valuation, Not Demand
The tape over the past week looked like a thesis breaking. The Nasdaq fell more than 4 percent on June 4, its worst session since…
Apple’s Next-Generation Apple Intelligence Is Built on Google’s Gemini Models
Apple announced the next generation of Apple Intelligence this week, and the most consequential detail was not the features. It was a single clause near…
Itera Emerges From Stealth With Fluid Circuit Board That Rewires in Under a Minute
A deep tech startup called Itera has come out of stealth with a prototype of what it describes as the world’s first fluid circuit board…