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FundingAnthropic commits 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval2026-10-18 · Another 2% can be added at the board's discretion for every 50% rise in the company's value. With earlier pledges, Anthropic says about 20% of its shares are now set aside for the public good.FundingLabelbox raises more than $100M in a Series E for reinforcement-learning data and agents2026-10-14 · Infinitum Partners led the round, which mixes equity and a credit facility. Labelbox says it turned profitable in 2026 and grew more than fivefold year over year.FundingModal raises $750M at a $15.75B valuation after passing $1B in annualized run rate2026-10-14 · The AI inference infrastructure company's Series D was led by Accel. Its valuation has more than tripled since a $355M round in May.FundingCharacter.AI files for Chapter 11, with Disney bidding $20M for a license to some of its IP2026-10-12 · The chatbot company is running a court-supervised sale due to close by early December. The app stays up for now, but if no buyer will keep it running, it will be wound down.FundingAnthropic commits $150 million over three years to the federal Genesis Mission2026-10-08 · Claude access for more than 15 federal science agencies, free API credits for "several hundred" research projects, and a focus on fusion energy and quantum computing, announced at a White House science summit and building on a DOE partnership Anthropic started last December.FundingSequoia leads a $30M seed for Catalyst, which builds AI agents that turn a stated goal into retail trades2026-10-08 · Jump Trading, PeakXV, Lux Capital, Coinbase and Premji Invest joined the round; a pilot with power traders generated what the company says was hundreds of millions in trading volume over a couple of weeks.FundingManus raises more than $500M, its first round since China forced the end of its $2B Meta deal2026-10-08 · Boyu Capital and IDG Capital led the round for the AI agent startup's parent, Butterfly Effect, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund returning, six months after Chinese authorities ordered the Meta acquisition unwound.FundingLambda is raising $4B ahead of a planned IPO on a backlog that tripled in three months2026-10-06 · The Nvidia-backed AI-cloud startup's order backlog went from $15B to $50B between June and September, with $35B of it tracing to a single Anthropic compute deal. Its IPO is now pushed to 2027.FundingThree ex-Ramp engineers deleted their first startup's codebase. The pivot just raised $20M.2026-10-06 · Melius, built after the founders' first product "didn't have legs," crossed $1M in annualized revenue two months after launch, in a market where the category leader already does $700M.FundingA 19-year-old raises $11M from a16z to sell a $3,499 "personal AI computer"2026-10-05 · Ghost's Core ships with three open-weight models preinstalled, an Nvidia Blackwell GPU, and no screen -- a bet that running AI locally is a hardware problem most people's laptops can't solve well.FundingAnde raises $52M to put corporate entertainment spend on autopilot2026-09-24 · An agentic platform for the $325B enterprises spend yearly on client dinners and events: booking, approvals, contracts and reconciliation, with Cloudflare and Salesforce already customers.FundingMistral buys Paris adtech startup Pimento for its team2026-09-23 · Mistral's third acquisition of 2026 folds Pimento's engineers into Vibe, its conversational assistant. Reports of the price disagree, and Mistral confirms only "several million euros."FundingGo.AI raises $85M for on-prem AI hardware built for bank examiners, not developers2026-09-22 · The Chicago startup's pitch is auditable, air-gapped AI appliances for regulated industries -- 200+ customers, 8x revenue growth in a year, and already profitable going into the round.FundingCanada and Germany put CAD 150M and EUR 100M behind Bengio's non-goal-seeking AI2026-09-16 · LawZero's "Scientist AI" is explicitly built not to act autonomously or pursue its own objectives -- a monitoring layer, not an agent. Two governments backed that bet over the industry's default architecture.FundingCohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger, betting on sovereignty over scale2026-09-16 · The combined company, dual-headquartered in Toronto and Berlin and reportedly valued around $20 billion, pitches itself as the enterprise and government alternative to routing everything through a US frontier lab.FundingAIUC raises $40M Series A to build a UL-style certification layer for AI agents2026-09-15 · Founded by early Anthropic employee Rune Kvist and former METR COO Rajiv Dattani, the startup now has $55M total to expand AIUC-1, a standard that tests agents against 5,000 risk scenarios before enterprises will trust them.FundingFactory triples to a $5B valuation five months after its last round2026-09-15 · The maker of the "Droid" coding agent raised $200M led by Blackstone, Khosla Ventures and Sequoia, up from $1.5B in April, as coding-agent valuations keep compounding across the market.FundingBuildots raises $130M to make AI progress-tracking a default layer for data-center construction2026-09-14 · The Tel Aviv startup's late-stage round, led by Eyal Ofer's O.G. Venture Partners, leans into a specific bet: the AI data-center buildout is itself generating demand for AI tools that manage the buildout.FundingCornelis Networks raises $205M to make AI networking do compute as well as carry it2026-09-14 · The Intel networking spinoff's new Active Compute Fabric offloads collective operations into the network itself, and its 400 Gbps CN5000 switch is shipping now as an open, GPU-agnostic alternative to Nvidia's fabric.FundingOpenAI buys smartphone-camera AI startup Glass Imaging for over $300 million2026-09-14 · The Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a computational-photography startup founded by former Apple engineers, adding another piece to its Jony Ive-led hardware push.FundingTandem Health raises $100M to grow from AI scribe into a full clinic operating system2026-09-14 · The Stockholm startup's Series B, led by the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund, is aimed at expanding beyond AI-generated medical notes into scheduling, triage and patient communications for European clinics.FundingFortaegis raises $50M to root AI infrastructure security in silicon itself2026-09-13 · The Amsterdam startup's oversubscribed Series A, led by Serendipity Capital, will fund commercial manufacturing of chips that generate encryption keys from a device's own physical properties instead of storing them.FundingChina's Z.AI raises $5 billion in its second multibillion-dollar raise in two months2026-09-13 · The Hong Kong-listed lab, formerly Zhipu AI, combined a discounted share placement with zero-coupon convertible bonds -- and says 60% of the proceeds go straight to model development and compute.FundingTAR raises $120M Series A at $1B valuation to build off-grid power for AI data centers2026-09-12 · The Austin startup builds modular, self-contained power systems so AI data centers can add generation capacity without competing with local communities for grid capacity.