Etched just raised $300M at a $10.3 billion valuation — more than doubling in seven months on a chip that deliberately runs only transformers. Inside the boldest bet against the GPU.
In June 2026, 90,000 AI-generated tracks hit Deezer every day — over half of all new uploads. But they're just 1-3% of streams, and 85% of their plays are fraudulent.
CuspAI just raised a $450M Series B at a $2.6B valuation — 5x its worth nine months ago — to use AI to invent the materials the physical world is missing. Kleiner Perkins and NEA led; Bezos Expeditions backed.
SAP just closed its €1B+ acquisition of Prior Labs, an 18-month-old Freiburg lab building tabular foundation models — AI for spreadsheets and databases, not chatbots.
DeepSeek, the Chinese lab that wiped ~$600B off Nvidia in a day, is raising up to $7B at a $74 billion valuation ahead of an onshore IPO.
TSMC's Q2 2026 net profit soared 77.4% to a record NT$706.56 billion on $40.2 billion in revenue — the clearest proof yet that the AI boom is real, paid-for, and printing cash.
Databricks just repriced 40% higher to $188 billion in seven months — a ~$3B round led by Coatue, still stubbornly private, and quietly running the AI economy's plumbing.
Helsing just closed a $1.8B Series E at an $18B valuation — Europe's biggest-ever defense-startup round, and the cap table was oversubscribed.
Unitree, LimX and Agility are racing to the public markets at the same moment. Here's why the timing is the whole story.
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