Category Funding

Kalanick’s Atoms Lands $1.7B as Uber Rejoins His Robotics Bet

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company Atoms raised $1.7B led by a16z, with Uber rejoining the founder’s orbit.

Yope raised $12.3M to grow a private social network with no ads or algorithms, targeting close friends, families and younger users.

AMD and Anthropic strike a $5 billion AI infrastructure deal, pairing huge GPU deployment with a multi-year compute partnership.

Passionfroot raised $15M to expand its creator marketplace in the U.S. as AI drives demand for B2B creator marketing and brand visibility.

Anthropic robotics talks with Physical Intelligence spotlight the race among AI giants to buy talent and move into real-world machines.

Chinese AI models from Moonshot and Alibaba are pressuring US rivals, investors and policymakers with cheaper, open-weight frontier systems.

SpaceX’s Nasdaq-100 debut raised fears about index funds, but experts say the bigger issue is concentration and governance, not fund safety.

A week of privacy and security reporting revealed risky period apps, a real DHS breach, Russia attribution, and a Suno hack.

Neil Rimer warns that AI wealth will be redistributed, as philanthropy weakens and policymakers weigh taxes, stakes and other remedies.

Databricks valuation jumps to $188B as investors back its AI pivot, new products and enterprise cost-control strategy.