| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Nearly 90 New Unicorns Minted So Far in 2026 | ~90 new unicorns in 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Jul 5 | IPO | Agility's SPAC Bet: Can Real Robots Beat SPAC Volatility? | $2.5B SPAC deal, largest in sector | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | IPO | Humanoid Robotics Firm Agility Goes Public via $2.5B SPAC | ~$2.5B valuation, $620M+ raise | TechCrunch |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Almost 90 New Unicorns Have Been Minted So Far in 2026 | ~90 new unicorns, 2026 YTD | TechCrunch |
| Jul 5 | AI | Anthropic, Not OpenAI, Is Setting AI's 2026 Agenda | Fable 5: #1 on Intelligence Index | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Why the Same Five Neoclouds Keep Landing Megarounds | $5.3B+ combined across 3 repeat raises | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Vertical AI Series A Rounds Are Quietly Getting Bigger | $650M+ combined across 4 vertical rounds | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Biotech VCs Are Betting Big on Single Clinical Trials | $391M+ combined across 3 single-trial bets | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | The Real Picks-and-Shovels Trade: Chips, Coolant and Power | $66M combined (Oxmiq + Omen AI) | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | FUNDING | Defense Tech Rounds Are Catching Up to AI's Round Sizes | ~$3.5B combined across 2 deals | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | REGULATION | Why the FTC's AI 'Accuracy' Rule Could Reshape Chatbots | Comment period through Jul 31, 2026 | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | AI | Anthropic Just Won the Benchmark War It Started | 4 of top 5 Intelligence Index slots | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | IPO | Europe's Late-Summer IPO Pipeline Is Filling Up Fast | 2 European listings in one week | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 5 | IPO | Anthropic's IPO Math Now Implies a Trillion-Dollar Debut | $1.05T-$1.15T implied valuation | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | FUNDING | Why AI Infrastructure Megarounds Are Swallowing the Series B Market | $6.75B+ in infra rounds in one week | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | FUNDING | The Return of the $100M+ Vertical AI Round | $100M-$180M vertical AI rounds | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | FUNDING | Crypto VCs Are Quietly Out-Raising AI VCs on Fund Size | $3.2B combined new fund capital | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | FUNDING | H1 2026's $510B Funding Record Hides a Concentration Problem | $217B of $510B to 2 companies | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | AI | Why AI's Chip Arms Race Just Went Multi-Vendor | 3 parallel Anthropic chip tracks | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | AI | The Hidden Cost War Behind Every AI Agent Launch | Up to 99% token reduction claimed | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | AI | Anthropic vs. Alibaba Is a Preview of the Whole AI Cold War | ~10 days: discovery to ban | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | IPO | Why 2026's Marquee AI IPOs Keep Slipping to 2027 | Potential delay to 2027 | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | IPO | Small-Cap Tech IPOs Are Having a Quiet Moment in 2026 | IPO count +7.95% YoY | Value Add Pulse Analysis |
| Jul 4 | AI | Alibaba Bans Claude Code Amid Anthropic Distillation Fight | Ban effective July 10, 2026 | TechCrunch |
| Jul 4 | FUNDING | Bitcoin's Next Big Rally May Need $1 Trillion | >$1 trillion needed for next rally | CoinDesk |
| Jul 4 | AI | Midjourney Seeks to Force Hollywood Studios to Reveal Their AI Use | Discovery motion pending | TechCrunch |
| Jul 4 | AI | Samsung's 2nm AI Chip Talks Now Include Meta Too | 2 frontier customers reportedly in talks | SamMobile |
| Jul 4 | BIG TECH | Google's AI Boom Drives Record 37% Jump in Power Use | +37% electricity use YoY | Tech Times |
| Jul 4 | AI | Mistral Is Building Its Own Anti-OpenAI Playbook | Open-weight model: July 2026 access | TechCrunch |
| Jul 4 | IPO | IPO Market Breadth Slips as AI Jitters Spread Abroad | 82 IPOs priced in 2026 YTD | IPOX |
| Jul 4 | AI | Confidential Computing's Core Trust Mechanism Is Broken, Researchers Warn | 3 of 4 systems already in production | The Register |
| Jul 3 | FUNDING | Kuaishou Spins Off Kling AI in Record $2.8B Round, Setting Up Hong Kong IPO | ~$2.8B spinoff round | TechNode |
| Jul 3 | IPO | SpaceX Set to Join Nasdaq-100, Unlocking ~$4.3B in Fund Buying | ~$7.3B combined passive inflows | CNBC |
| Jul 3 | FUNDING | Crusoe in Talks to Raise $3B, Tripling Valuation to ~$30B | $3B raise / ~$30B valuation | Bloomberg |
| Jul 3 | AI | AI Bills Are Baffling the C-Suite After the Shift to Usage-Based Pricing | ~50% of firms pausing deployments | The Register |
| Jul 3 | AI | Anthropic Launches Claude Science and Begins Developing Its Own Drugs | Three-way AI drug-discovery race | The Verge |
| Jul 3 | AI | Startup Ampera Targets Datacenters With 3D-Printed Nuclear Reactor Module | 15-30 MWe, targeting datacenters | The Register |
| Jul 3 | FUNDING | Quantum Systems Raises $1.2B Series D as Europe Bets Big on Sovereign Drone | $1.2B Series D | Evertiq |
| Jul 3 | FUNDING | Aligned Closes $60M Series B to Become the 'System of Action' for B2B Sales | $60M Series B | GlobeNewswire |
| Jul 3 | AI | Trunk Tools Cut Construction Document Review From 60 Days to 10 by Ditching | 6x faster document review | VentureBeat |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | Tesla Driver Faces Manslaughter Charges After FSD Crash Killed a Woman Inside Her Texas Home | Manslaughter charges filed | The Verge |
| Jul 2 | AI | Alibaba's SkillWeaver Framework Cuts AI Agent Token Consumption by Over 99% | >99% token reduction | VentureBeat |
| Jul 2 | IPO | IQM, Europe's First Public Quantum Company, Admits the Future of the Tech Is | ~$1.9B valuation | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Jersey Mike's IPO Filing Shows Just How Far AI Buzzwords Have Spread | S-1 filed | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Travel App Hopper to Pay $35M in FTC Settlement Over 'Unfairly' Charging Hidden Fees | $35M settlement | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | AI | Microsoft Launches $2.5B 'Frontier Company' to Embed 6,000 Engineers Inside AI Customers | $2.5B AI deployment commitment | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | AI | Zuckerberg Tells Staff AI Agents Haven't Progressed as Fast as He Hoped | ~8,000 laid off, ~7,000 reassigned | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | AI | OpenAI Proposes Giving the Trump Administration a 5% Stake | ~$42.6B implied stake value | Axios |
| Jul 2 | AI | Microsoft Launches $2.5B 'Frontier Co.' Unit, Mobilizes 6,000 Workers to Push | $2.5B new unit, ~6,000 employees | Bloomberg |
| Jul 2 | AI | Anthropic Is Discussing a New Custom AI Chip With Samsung | Early-stage chip talks | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | BIG TECH | Microsoft Commits $2.5B and 6,000 Staff to New AI Deployment Unit | $2.5B / 6,000 employees | CNBC |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | Google Loses Final EU Appeal, Must Pay $4.7 Billion Android Antitrust Fine | $4.7B fine confirmed | Ars Technica |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Scribe Therapeutics, Co-Founded by Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna, Files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 2 | AI | Google and Amazon's Rising Emissions Are a Warning Sign About AI's Real Cost | Google +25% / Amazon +16% emissions | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Cycurion Files S-1 as AI Cybersecurity Firm Completes Secuvant Merger | ~25.9M shares registered for resale | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Nobel Laureate's Qolab Raises $54.2M Series B to Scale Superconducting | $54.2M Series B | GlobeNewswire |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Celea Therapeutics Raises $180M Series B for Pulmonary Fibrosis Drug | $180M Series B | Tech Startups |
| Jul 2 | AI | Meta Quietly Launches Pocket, a Vibe-Coded Mini-Game Generator | No official launch announcement | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | DHS Confirms Hackers Breached Homeland Security Info Network | HSIN + SharePoint breached | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | AI | Altman's 'New World Order' Pitch Signals OpenAI Unease | Reported Jul 2, 2026 | Fortune |
| Jul 2 | AI | OpenAI Proposed Donating 5% of Its Equity to a US Sovereign Wealth Fund | 5% equity proposed | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Peraso Files S-1 for a $25M Equity Line as the mmWave Chipmaker's Stock Sits Under $1 | Up to $25M equity line | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Thiel Capital's Jack Selby Nabs Stakes in Etched Through Arizona Ties | Etched now valued at ~$5B | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Bending Spoons' Rocky First Week: 40% Pop, Then an 8.5% Slide | $1.68B raised / ~$25B cap | Bloomberg |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | OpenAI Offers US Government a 5% Equity Stake | ~$42.6B stake offered | CNBC |
| Jul 2 | BIG TECH | Tesla Deliveries Jump 25% to a Record 480,126 Vehicles in Q2 2026 | 480,126 vehicles delivered | Ars Technica |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Thiel Capital's Jack Selby Nabs Stakes in Hot Startups Like Etched Through Arizona Connections | $300M Fund II (raising) | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | IPOs and M&A Soared to a Record $113B in Q2 2026 as the AI Boom Reshapes Exits | $113B in $1B+ M&A (record quarter) | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Melinda Gates' Pivotal Ventures Backs Magnify Ventures' $46.6M Fund II | $46.6M Fund II | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | IPO | Scribe Therapeutics Files for $75M IPO to Test Early-Stage Biotech Appetite | Up to $75M IPO | Renaissance Capital |
| Jul 2 | BIG TECH | Anthropic in Early Talks With Samsung on Custom 2nm AI Chip | Early-stage, no design contract yet | The Information |
| Jul 2 | AI | Zuckerberg Tells Staff AI Agents Haven't Progressed as Quickly as He'd Hoped | $145B 2026 AI spend | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Global Startup Funding Hit a Record $510B in H1 2026 as AI Concentration | $510B H1 2026 (record) | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 2 | AI | Google's AI Buildout Drove a 37% Increase in Electricity Use in 2025 | +37% electricity use | Ars Technica |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Melinda Gates' Pivotal Ventures Backs Magnify Ventures' $46.6M Fund II for the Care Economy | $46.6M Fund II | TechCrunch |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | Google Loses Final EU Appeal, Must Pay $4.7B Android Antitrust Fine | $4.7B fine finalized | Bloomberg |
| Jul 2 | AI | Alibaba's New Framework Cuts AI Agent Token Use by Up to 99% | Up to 99% token reduction | VentureBeat |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Crunchbase: Global Startup Funding Hit a Record $510B in H1 2026 as AI Swallows the Market | $510B H1 2026 | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 2 | AI | Z.ai Launches ZCode, a Free IDE for GLM-5.2, to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and Copilot | Up to 82% cheaper than Opus 4.8 | VentureBeat |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Celea Therapeutics Raises $180M to Push Lung Drug Into Phase 3 | $180 million | BioSpace |
| Jul 2 | REGULATION | OpenAI Floats Giving the Trump Administration a 5% Stake to Defuse Washington Pressure | ~$42.6B stake proposed | The Verge |
| Jul 2 | FUNDING | Crunchbase: The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Led by Joulent's $1.75B Energy Raise | $1.75B lead deal (Joulent) | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 2 | BIG TECH | Amazon Now Has Enough Satellites in Orbit to Launch Its Starlink Competitor | ~700 satellites by July | The Verge |
| Jul 2 | AI | Chinese Lab Z.ai Launches ZCode to Challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot | New product launch | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | AI | Anthropic Restores Claude Fable 5 Globally After US Lifts Export Control Order | Global access restored | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Uber-Backed Lime Prices IPO at $25, Pops on Nasdaq Debut After Years of Delay | $174M IPO, +9% debut | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Bending Spoons Defies the SaaS Slump, Surges 40% on IPO Day to a $25.7B | $25.7B market cap (+40% day one) | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | AI | Anthropic Brings Claude Fable 5 Back Globally After US Lifts Export Controls | 3-week global suspension resolved | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Ex-Intel Chip Architect Raja Koduri Raises $35M for Licensable GPU/AI Chiplet | $35M Series A | Business Wire |
| Jul 1 | AI | SpaceX Has an AI Device Prototype, Report Says — Then Musk Publicly Denies It | Denied by Musk | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Indian Tech Tycoon Bets $30M of His Own Money to Build an AI Alternative to Microsoft Office | $30M self-funded | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Bending Spoons Defies the SaaS Slump, Surges 40% on Nasdaq Debut to a Near-$26B Close | $1.68B raised, +40% debut | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | TwelveLabs Raises $100M Series B to Build 'Video Superintelligence,' Deepens AWS Partnership | $100M | SiliconANGLE |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Venice AI Becomes a Unicorn With $65M Series A as Its Privacy-First Platform Takes Off | $65M | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | AI | Restaurants Can Now Take Orders Directly From ChatGPT and Claude Through Square's New Integration | No added commission | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | IPO | VenHub Global Files Amended S-1 for Nasdaq Direct Listing of Fully Autonomous Robotic Stores | Direct listing, no new capital | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Bain, CPP and Bristol Myers Add $126M to Beeline's Lupus Pipeline | $126.3M Series A extension | Endpoints News |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Bending Spoons Surges 40% on Nasdaq Debut After $18.4B IPO Priced Above Range | $1.68B IPO, shares +40% | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Ashton Kutcher Leaves Sound Ventures to Launch New Early-Stage Firm With Morgan Beller | New fund launch | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | AI | Square Lets Restaurants Take Orders Directly From ChatGPT and Claude, No Marketplace Fee | 0% marketplace fee vs. 25-30% aggregators | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Micromobility Leader Lime Debuts on Nasdaq | $24-$26/share, ~$167M-$181M raise | Nasdaq / Yahoo Finance |
| Jul 1 | AI | Square Lets Restaurants Take Orders Straight From ChatGPT and Claude, With No New Fees | Zero new fees | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | AI | Cloudflare's New Default Policy Forces AI Crawlers to Pay Publishers for Content | Default policy shift | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Together AI Raises $800M at $8.3B Valuation as Open-Source Inference Demand Triples | $800M | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | IPO | OneMedNet Files S-1 to Register Shares Under $8.5M Standby Equity Purchase Agreement | Up to 11.68M shares | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | National Grid Invests $1.75B in Joulent to Power US AI Data Centers | $1.75B strategic investment | Business Wire |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Tapestry VC Closes $80M Third Fund to Back Europe's Repeat Founders | $80M | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 1 | REGULATION | Cloudflare's New Policy Forces AI Companies to Pay Publishers for Content, Starting September 15 | Default block Sep 15 | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | AI | Serial Founder Bhavin Turakhia Bets $30M of His Own Money on an AI Alternative to Microsoft Office | $30M self-funded | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Actelis Networks Files Fresh S-1 as Hybrid Fiber-Copper Networking Firm Deepens Its Public Listing | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Asia AI Group Files Fresh S-1, Widening the AI-Branded IPO Pipeline Beyond the Frontier Labs | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | Ashton Kutcher Leaves Sound Ventures to Launch New Deep-Tech VC Firm With Morgan Beller | New fund launch | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Freedom Metals Acquisition Corp Amends S-1 for Critical-Metals-Focused SPAC IPO | SPAC IPO filing | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | AI | Autonomous Vehicle Hype Is Back — Humble Robotics Is Bringing It to Freight | $24M disclosed | TechCrunch |
| Jul 1 | FUNDING | London's Tapestry VC Closes $80M Third Fund to Back Repeat European Founders | $80M Fund III | Crunchbase News |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Lime Rings the Nasdaq Bell at $25 as Uber-Backed Scooter Giant Reaches $1.8B Market Cap | $174M IPO at $1.8B | Bloomberg |
| Jul 1 | AI | Anthropic Brings Claude Fable 5 Back Globally After US Lifts Export Control Order | Global access restored | VentureBeat |
| Jul 1 | BIG TECH | Sony to End Physical PlayStation Game Disc Production Starting 2028 | Discs end 2028 | PlayStation.Blog |
| Jul 1 | IPO | QumulusAI Files S-1/A for Nasdaq Direct Listing as GPU-Cloud Provider to Underserved AI Customers | Direct listing filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Encore Medical Files Amended S-1 to Fund US Trials for Its Heart-Defect Closure Device | ~$12.6M-$14.67M | SEC EDGAR |
| Jul 1 | IPO | Already-Public Actelis Networks Files New S-1 to Amend Its Equity Line With White Lion Capital | Up to 15.85M shares | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 30 | REGULATION | UK Regulators Signal They're Likely to Intervene in Paramount's $110B Takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery | $110B deal at risk of delay | Ars Technica |
| Jun 30 | AI | Morgan Stanley Cut Its Riskiest Reconciliation Job in Half by Making Its Agents Less Autonomous | ~1,500 hours/week saved | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | AI | Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a Steep Discount as It Races Toward a Blockbuster IPO | 60% intro discount | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | REGULATION | Getty Images Scraps $3.7B Shutterstock Merger After UK Regulator Demands Editorial Business Sale | $3.7B deal terminated | Bloomberg |
| Jun 30 | AI | Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 at a Steep Discount as It Races Toward an IPO | ~60% discount vs. flagship | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | AI | Google's Gemini Omni Flash Hits the API, Turning Enterprise Video Production Into a Conversation | $0.10/sec video | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | BIG TECH | Big Tech's 2026 AI Capex Will Hit $725B, up 77% Year-Over-Year | $725B combined | Fortune |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | LeapXpert Raises $180M to Bring AI Into Governed Enterprise Messaging | $180M | SiliconANGLE |
| Jun 30 | IPO | Solid-State Battery Maker Factorial Energy Lists on Nasdaq at $1.3B via SPAC Merger | $1.3B equity value | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 30 | AI | GitHub Copilot's Usage-Based Billing Closes Its First Full Cycle — and Enterprise Bills Are Landing 25-40% Higher | 25-40% bill hike | Releasebot |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Omnea Will Give Employees $250K to Openly Plan Their Next Startup | $250K per employee | Crunchbase News |
| Jun 30 | AI | Morgan Stanley Cut Its Riskiest Reconciliation Job in Half by Making Its AI Agents Less Autonomous | 50% reduction | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | AI | Google Ships Nano Banana 2 Lite, a Faster and Cheaper Image Generator | New model tier | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Higharc Raises $95M Series C to Bring AI Into Homebuilding | $95M Series C | PR Newswire |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Nvidia Competitor Etched Hits $5B Valuation on $1B in AI Chip Sales | $5B valuation | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Wayve Launches $85M Employee Tender Offer at $8.5B Valuation | $85M tender | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | BIG TECH | Nvidia Challenger Etched Hits $5B Valuation on $1B in AI Chip Orders | $5B valuation | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | AI Homebuilding Platform Higharc Raises $95M Series C Led by Insight Partners | $95M | TechStartups |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Higharc Raises $95M Series C to Bring AI-Native Design Software to Homebuilders | $95M | Tech Startups |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | LeapXpert Raises $180M to Govern AI-Era Enterprise Messaging | $180M growth round | PR Newswire |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Flare Therapeutics Raises $85M, Names New CEO | $85M Series C | GlobeNewswire |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Ex-DeepMind Poker AI Trio's Trading Startup EquiLibre Hits $500M Valuation | $500M valuation | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | LeapXpert Raises $180M Growth Round Led by Riverwood as Enterprise Chat Governance Scales | $180M | PRNewswire |
| Jun 30 | AI | The DeepMind Trio Who Built a Poker AI Are Now Making Money for Quant Hedge Funds | Talent migration story | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | IPO | Encore Medical Prices Structural Heart IPO at $5/Share on NYSE American as Cash Runway Tightens | $5.00/share IPO | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Realta Fusion Becomes First Commercial Fusion Company to Convert Plasma Directly Into Electricity | First direct conversion | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | GV's Dave Munichiello on Qualcomm's Modular Deal, a Roughly 10x Return, and the AI Software Shift | ~10x return | Crunchbase News |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Chamath's 8090 Labs Raises $135M Series A Led by Salesforce Ventures | $135M Series A | Business Wire |
| Jun 30 | AI | Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Near-Frontier Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips | 1.6T parameters | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | FUNDING | Arcturus Raises $8M Seed to Halve the Grid's Electrical Losses With Nano-Infused Copper | $8M | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | AI | Godot Game Engine Bans AI-Authored Code Contributions | AI contributions banned | PC Gamer |
| Jun 30 | AI | OKX Opens a Marketplace Where AI Agents Hire and Pay Each Other | Agent marketplace | TechCrunch |
| Jun 30 | BIG TECH | Qualcomm's $3.9B Modular Buy Hands GV a 27x Return as Chipmakers Race to Own AI Software | $3.9B | Crunchbase News |
| Jun 30 | AI | Meituan Open-Sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T Agentic Coding Model Trained Entirely on Chinese Chips | 1.6T parameters | VentureBeat |
| Jun 30 | AI | TIDAL Cracks Down on AI Music by Cutting Off Monetization | AI music demonetized | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role | $135M | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | BIG TECH | Waymo and Uber Quietly End Their Phoenix Robotaxi Partnership | Partnership ends | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | AI | OpenAI Teases Dedicated Hardware for Its Codex Coding Agent | Hardware tease | The Verge |
| Jun 29 | AI | DeepSeek and Peking University Open-Source DSpark, Speeding LLM Inference by Up to 85% | Up to 85% faster | VentureBeat |
| Jun 29 | AI | Google Makes Gemini's Personalized AI Image Generation Free for All U.S. Users | Free for U.S. | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Takes CEO Role | $135M | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | AI | Lawmakers Move to Ban AI Companies From Selling Your Health and Location Data | Data-privacy bill | The Verge |
| Jun 29 | REGULATION | Supreme Court Rules Geofence Warrants Violate Privacy Rights in Landmark Decision | Privacy ruling | Ars Technica |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M for AI Coding Startup 8090 Labs, Returns as CEO | $135M Series A | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | IPO | SeeQC Files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO to Fund Digital Quantum Computing Chips | ~$1B valuation | TradingView |
| Jun 29 | IPO | SunPower Files S-1 as Reborn Residential Solar Company Eyes Public Markets | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Arena, the AI Leaderboard Everyone Uses, Becomes a $100M Business Eight Months After Launch | $100M ARR | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Chamath Palihapitiya Raises $135M Series A for 8090 Labs, Takes the CEO Role | $135M | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Arena, the AI Leaderboard Everyone Uses, Hits $100M Revenue Run-Rate | $100M run-rate | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | IPO | SeeQC Files S-1 as Quantum Computing IPO Wave Widens Beyond IonQ and D-Wave | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | REGULATION | Supreme Court Lets Presidents Fire FTC Commissioners, Overturning a 91-Year Precedent | 6-3 ruling | CNBC |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Reed Semiconductor Raises Upsized $100M to Build Power Delivery for AI Data Centers | $100M | Tech Startups |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Spine-Surgery Device Maker Tenon Medical Files to Raise Fresh Capital | S-1MEF filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Enterprise AI Agent Workforce | $64M | Tech Startups |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Q2 2026 Delivers the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since the 2021 Peak | Most $1B+ exits since 2021 | Crunchbase News |
| Jun 29 | FUNDING | Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Emerging AI-Agent Workforce | $64M | TechStartups |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Drone-Delivery Pioneer Matternet Files an S-1 to Register Shares After Going Public | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Crunchbase: Q2 2026 Delivered the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since the 2021 Peak | Most exits since 2021 | Crunchbase News |
| Jun 29 | BIG TECH | Comcast to Split Into Two Public Companies, Spinning Off NBCUniversal and Sky | Two-company split | Variety |
| Jun 29 | AI | Anthropic and Gov. Newsom Strike Deal to Give California Government Claude at Half Price | ~50% gov discount | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Consumer Brand House AMASS Brands Files S-1, Testing the CPG IPO Window | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Autonomous Industrial Drone Firm Exyn Technologies Files S-1 Amid Defense-Tech IPO Rush | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Autonomous-Drone Maker Exyn Technologies Files S-1 as Physical AI Heads to Market | S-1 filed | SEC EDGAR |
| Jun 29 | AI | Wix's Base44 Launches Its Own Model, Base1, in a Bet on Defensibility | Base1 model | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | AI | Arena, the AI Leaderboard Everyone Uses, Is Now a $100M Business | $100M ARR | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | REGULATION | Google Warns EU's Plan to Weaken Its Search Monopoly Could Expose User Data | EU antitrust clash | Ars Technica |
| Jun 29 | AI | Cursor Launches a Mobile App to Steer Your Coding Agent on the Go | Mobile agent control | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | BIG TECH | Rocket Lab to Buy Iridium for $8B, Forging a Fully Vertically Integrated Space Powerhouse | ~$8.0B | CNBC |
| Jun 29 | BIG TECH | South Korea's Chip Giants Pledge $550B-Plus to End 'RAMageddon' | $550B+ | TechCrunch |
| Jun 29 | IPO | Q2 2026 Delivered the Most Billion-Dollar Startup Exits Since 2021 | Most exits since 2021 | Crunchbase News |