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Sources reveal inconsistencies in Megaspeed's chip inventory, as the US probes the Singapore AI startup over alleged Chinese ownership and Nvidia chip smuggling (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-23 China Startup AI Singapore Nvidia

Coinbase agrees to acquire prediction markets startup The Clearing Company for an undisclosed sum; the startup was founded in 2025 and raised a $15M seed (www.theblock.co)
2025-12-23 Startup Coinbase

Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases GLM-4.7, an open-weight model that Z.ai says delivers significant improvements in coding performance compared to GLM-4.6 (z.ai)
2025-12-23 China Startup AI

Sequoia, a16z, and other VC firms invested $1.2B+ into police and public safety tech startups over the past year, following the success of Palantir and others (www.theinformation.com)
2025-12-22 Startup

Filings: Chinese AI startups Zhipu and MiniMax report 2024 revenue of $44.4M and $30.5M, respectively, as both prepare for Hong Kong IPOs in the coming weeks (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-22 China Hong Kong IPO Startup AI

Q&A with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle on the company's Chapter 11 bankruptcy, regulatory pressure that killed Amazon's deal, his new robotics startup, and more (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-22 Amazon Startup Robot

A look at military tech startup Shield AI, recently valued at $5.6B, and its new CEO Gary Steele, who aims to grow annual revenue from $300M to $1B by 2028 (fortune.com)
2025-12-22 Startup AI

EV Battery-Swapping Startup That Raised $330 Million Files for Bankruptcy (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-21 Startup Battery

AI robotics startup Physical Intelligence claims vision-language-action models learn to align human videos and robot data as pre-training is scaled up (www.physicalintelligence.company)
2025-12-20 Startup AI Robot Intelligence

Netflix acquires avatar creation platform Ready Player Me to let its subscribers carry their personas and fandoms across games; the startup raised $72M (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-20 Startup Netflix

Cursor-developer Anysphere acquires code review startup Graphite and says Graphite will continue operating as an independent product (fortune.com)
2025-12-20 Startup

Stockholm-based vibe coding startup Lovable raised $330M led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures at a $6.6B valuation, up from $1.8B after raising $200M in July (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-19 Startup

Sources: Yann LeCun is in early talks to raise €500M for his startup at a ~€3B valuation, and plans to name Alexandre LeBrun as CEO, ahead of a January launch (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at “bargain prices” (www.ft.com)
2025-12-18 Startup

Meta partners with Singapore-based startup K-ID to add its AgeKey age-verification tech to Meta apps, and plans to roll it out across multiple countries in 2026 (t.co)
2025-12-18 Startup Singapore

AI chip startup Mythic, which develops “analog processing units” to perform AI computations within memory, raised $125M led by DCVC; its CEO is a Nvidia veteran (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-18 Startup AI Nvidia

Berlin-based Trade Republic says early investors will sell €1.2B of shares to Sequoia and others at a €12.5B valuation, becoming Germany's most valuable startup (www.ft.com)
2025-12-17 Germany Startup

Sources: New York-based data security startup Cyera is raising $400M led by Blackstone, valuing the company at $9B, up from $6B in June (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-17 Startup New York

X updates its ToS, effective January 15, 2026, to explicitly claim rights to the “Twitter” trademark after a startup filed an application to trademark the term (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-17 Startup Twitter

Amazon partners with payments startup Slope to offer loans of up to $5M to merchants selling on its platform, using Amazon sales data for candidate selection (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-17 Amazon Startup

Lightspeed raised a record $9B across six funds to invest in AI, with $3.3B to back breakout companies like Anthropic; Lightspeed has backed 165 AI startups (www.nytimes.com)
2025-12-16 Startup AI

AI drug discovery startup Chai Discovery raised a $130M Series B led by Oak HC/FT and General Catalyst at a $1.3B valuation, taking its total funding to $225M (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-15 Startup AI

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (www.theguardian.com)
2025-12-15 Startup Sweden

Startup Successfully Uses AI to Find New Geothermal Energy Reservoirs (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-12-14 Energy Startup AI

Sources: Intel is in advanced talks to acquire AI chip startup SambaNova for about $1.6B including debt; the deal could come together as soon as next month (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-12-13 Intel Startup AI

Fertility startup Inito, which offers an at-home health diagnostics platform, raised a $29M Series B and plans to use AI-designed antibodies to make new tests (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-12 Startup AI

Israeli startup Port, which offers a proprietary developer portal competitor to Spotify's open-source Backstage, raised a $100M Series C at an $800M valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 Israel Startup Spotify

Unacademy CEO Gaurav Munjal says the Indian edtech startup's valuation has fallen from its $3.5B peak three years ago to less than $500M, and confirms M&A talks (techcrunch.com)
2025-12-11 India Startup

Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup, has petitioned the USPTO to acquire the “abandoned” Twitter trademark and launch its own social network (arstechnica.com)
2025-12-11 Startup Twitter Virginia

How US startups like Oakland-based Brimstone are racing to develop sources of raw materials that the US needs for tech, an industry China has long dominated (www.wsj.com)
2025-12-11 China Startup

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