Category Funding

Klaviyo buys Agency in AI reunion that reunites two startup veterans

Klaviyo acquires Agency to boost AI agents for ecommerce, bringing founder Elias Torres back as chief product officer.

Jeff Dean leaves Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI startup aiming to speed up scientific discovery and automate experiments.

Jeff Dean and three top researchers leave Google to launch a Google AI startup aimed at automating scientific discovery.

MacPaw partners with Liquid AI on on-device AI for Eney and SetApp, aiming to bring local inference to developers and users.

WindBorne raised $37M to commercialize its AI weather forecast platform, expanding balloon data, government sales and private-sector customers.

EON raised $10.75M to use space lasers for data center traffic, targeting high-bandwidth links between continents and AI infrastructure.

DesignArena creator Intelligence raises $7.9M as AI labs pay for human feedback, with 5.3M users and reported $60M ARR.

OpenAI influencer trip backlash erupts after a luxury retreat in New York, fueling debate over AI marketing, data centers and public trust.

SpaceX says xAI turbines powering Memphis-area data centers will stay until July 2027 as lawsuits and a new gas plant reshape the fight.

Smallest.ai raised $13M to build voice AI that sounds human in real time, using a small model plus an LLM fallback.