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FundingQualcomm and Amazon strike a multi-generation AI chip deal, and Amazon takes a warrant worth up to $60B2026-09-08 · AWS gets a second custom-silicon inference track alongside Trainium; Qualcomm gets a warrant-linked stake structured around commercial purchase milestones -- a sign the AI chip supply chain is diversifying beyond Nvidia.FundingA 20-person startup that finds companies' financial errors is now worth $180 million2026-09-08 · Sapien's AI tells finance teams which operational decisions are driving profit -- and reportedly found a car-parts supplier $12 million in bad analysis, on a raise led by Neo's Ali Partovi less than two years after an $8.7 million seed round.FundingGimlet Labs raises $300M Series B at a $3B valuation, six months after its Series A2026-09-04 · Andreessen Horowitz led the round for the multi-silicon inference-cloud startup, which says it has added billions in contracted revenue and gigawatts of datacenter pipeline since closing an $80M Series A in March.FundingCrusoe raises over $3B at a $30B valuation, tripling its value in 10 months2026-09-03 · The round, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, lands days after Crusoe signed a $13B, five-year cloud contract with Jane Street -- and comes as the data-center developer reportedly courts bankers for a near-term IPO.FundingFigure will spend $3.5 billion on Nscale compute to train its humanoid robots2026-09-03 · Up to 100,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs land at a Texas data center in 2027 under a deal that also makes Nscale a Figure shareholder -- with Nvidia holding equity in both companies on either side of the contract.FundingNvidia will acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion2026-09-03 · About $11.9 billion goes to shareholders and up to $1 billion in retention equity to employees. Nvidia says its own compute won't be required to build on or deploy through the platform. Hugging Face turned down a $500 million investment offer from Nvidia in 2023.FundingHiddenLayer raised $100 million as it claims 10x ARR growth securing AI agents2026-09-02 · The Austin-based Series B, led by Delta-v Capital with Microsoft's M12 and Morgan Stanley participating, funds a new 'Agent Harness Security' product for AI coding agents at runtime. The revenue-growth figure is HiddenLayer's own and unverified.FundingEx-Apple Face ID engineers raised $165 million to give robots a trustworthy sense of the world2026-09-02 · Lyte's Series C, led by Maverick Silicon, triples the perception-hardware startup's valuation to $1.6 billion. Its bet is that every category of physical-AI robot will need custom sensors and silicon it can trust before it acts.FundingFélix raised $200 million to turn WhatsApp into a bank for Latino immigrants2026-09-01 · The Miami fintech's Series C splits $87 million in equity led by a16z from $113 million in debt from General Catalyst -- funding a move from remittances into loans and savings for a market traditional banks have mostly ignored.FundingAnthropic is paying outside researchers to grade AI's effect on user wellbeing, and says it won't direct the work2026-08-25 · The $5 million fund gives clinicians, psychologists and methodologists money, Claude access and technical support to build open-source wellbeing evaluations, with a September 21 application deadline and a hard requirement that findings publish regardless of what they show.FundingUniversal, Sony and Warner Music became investors in the company behind Stable Diffusion2026-08-25 · Stability AI's new $76 million round is led entirely by the entertainment industry it spent the past year signing licensing deals with. Three major music groups and Electronic Arts are now equity holders as well as partners.FundingNvidia recruited Wall Street to help finance $500 billion of AI infrastructure2026-08-24 · Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR will run financing platforms that lend Nvidia customers money to build data centers and buy Nvidia hardware, funded mostly by third-party capital.FundingStripe is buying the switchboard that routes AI apps between models2026-08-19 · OpenRouter built the layer that lets a company swap GPT for Claude for Gemini without rewriting its code. Stripe is acquiring it for a reported $7 billion-plus, betting that deciding which model handles a request is now a payments problem.FundingEtched doubled its valuation to $21 billion in a month -- with its new lead investor as its first paying customer2026-08-18 · The AI inference-chip startup's $700 million Series D was led by Jane Street, which also just took delivery of the company's first production rack -- a funding round and a customer contract announced in the same breath.FundingSpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of the company behind Cursor2026-08-14 · The all-stock deal, structured as an acquisition option back in April, then exercised as SpaceX went public, folds the widely used AI coding tool into the same division building Grok, giving it a direct line to SpaceX's GPU fleet.