Venture capital, funding rounds, mergers and acquisitions, and startup launches.
YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have surpassed 150 million subscribers globally, according to Alphabet's Q3 2026 financial report, despite recent price increases.
Google is expanding AI-powered search ads globally as Alphabet reports Q3 revenue growth of 25% to $127.6 billion amid slowing core ad growth.
Anthropic is reportedly considering allocating 15% to 20% of its IPO shares for retail investors, with JPMorgan leading the retail offering.
AMD announced a $1 billion equity investment in Meta and confirmed its Helios rack systems are now operational at Meta's facilities.
Plato, a San Francisco startup building AI training simulations, raised $16M in Series A funding led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures and Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman.
Robotics AI startup Physical Intelligence is in talks to raise at least $1bn at a $20bn valuation, according to Bloomberg reporting.
The Trump administration's Department of Energy has awarded $5 billion in loans to Constellation Energy to modernize nuclear reactors, with most new capacity already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.
Machenta, a London-based robotics startup, raised $40M in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures to develop AI that teaches robots tasks from single demonstrations.
The UK government announced 'Founders' Relief' and other measures to encourage startup growth, including capital gains tax relief and visa reforms.
Holiday Tribe, an AI-powered traveltech startup, is in talks to raise approximately ₹50 Cr from RPSG Capital Ventures and other investors.
Circuit Mind, a London-based AI startup, has raised $25 million total across seed and Series A rounds to develop AI-driven circuit board design tools.
Circuit Mind, a British hardware design startup, raised $25 million to expand its AI verification platform for circuit board design, including a new tool for detecting schema errors.
Numeracle raised $28 million to help businesses verify their identities to prevent their calls from being labeled as spam by phone carriers and screening systems.
Cloud and AI security startup Upwind Security raised $400 million at a $3.8 billion valuation, with revenue quadrupling.
Inference cloud startup General Compute raised $100 million in Series A funding, bucking predictions of a funding downturn in the AI cloud infrastructure sector.
Italian deeptech startup Magic Vision raised €600,000 to develop and commercialize Silver Eye, an AI-powered monitoring system for elderly care using computer vision and edge processing.
AI unicorn Sarvam AI is in talks to raise approximately $300 million from IT services firm Cognizant at a $3.5–$4 billion valuation, more than doubling its $1.5 billion Series B valuation from June 2024.
Live2.ai, an Indian AI startup for social media analytics and marketing, raised ₹130 crore in a pre-Series B round led by IvyCap Ventures.
