Selena Gomez and her mother are facing a lawsuit from investors who claim the singer and actress defrauded them through her mental health startup, Wondermind. The plaintiffs say they invested nearly…
Databricks raised $5 billion in its latest funding round, the AI and big-data company announced on August 13, 2026, pushing its valuation to $190 billion. The round was led by Coatue and included…
Lovable’s Aug 12, 2026 $400M Series C values the European vibe-coding platform at $13.3B, following a June $500M annualized run-rate revenue milestone. Menlo Ventures led, and Lovable now has 60M projects generating 900M monthly visitors.
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith has closed a $45 million Series B round that values the company at $550 million — nearly ten times the $60 million valuation it held less than a year ago when it…
Bloomberg says Phia co-founders Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni knew of cookie stuffing by Dec. 2025, before a spokesperson said they learned only when Bloomberg reached out. The Aug. 2026 report cites leaked Slack messages, calls it a switchable feature affecting Nike and Nordstrom, and says stopping it cut daily revenue.
River AI, a startup focused on personally trainable AI agents, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round announced in August 2026 — just two months after the company emerged from stealth in June…
OpenAI has completed a $7 billion tender offer, buying back shares from employees of the privately held AI company. The deal, reported by Bloomberg and completed in 2026, valued OpenAI at $852…
HR software company Rippling filed a lawsuit on August 10, 2026, accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its patents. The filing is a direct response to a lawsuit Runlayer…
Discovered Materials says its AI-agent pipeline using Anthropic models can evaluate thousands of semiconductor candidates per day (vs ~20 during founder Akash Ramdas’s Stanford PhD). The 2026 $9M seed—led by Lightspeed India Partners with Peak XV and angel Paul Graham—targets thermally cooler chip materials, and it plans to patent viable GPU uses.
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built an AI tool for generating presentations, with the deal having taken place earlier in 2026. NextSlide founder Ahmed Beshry confirmed the acquisition…
Cloudflare launched Kitesurf in August 2026, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents rather than human users. The product is available for free in beta through Browser Run, Cloudflare’s service…
Naïve, a startup that lets AI agents automate the setup and operation of a business, announced in August 2026 that it has raised $28.5 million in a Series A funding round led by Nexus Venture…
