| 1 | OpenAI weighs funding round at $1.2tn valuation before IPO | Money | 82 | Financial Times Technology |
| 2 | British data centre group Nscale files for $35bn US listing | Money | 78 | Financial Times Technology |
| 3 | AI data center builder Crusoe valued at $30.9B in $3.9B round | Money | 78 | SiliconAngle |
| 4 | Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories” | Money | 78 | TechCrunch AI |
| 5 | Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter | Money | 78 | Financial Times Technology |
| 6 | Cohere and Aleph Alpha agree to merge in reported $20B deal | Money | 75 | SiliconAngle |
| 7 | OpenAI reportedly buys AI camera startup Glass Imaging for more than $300M | Money | 75 | SiliconAngle |
| 8 | AI cloud provider Nscale files to go public | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 9 | Inside Temporal’s journey to a $12.55B valuation, and its bet on building a backbone for AI agents | Money | 72 | GeekWire |
| 10 | Manus seeks $4B valuation in new $500M fundraise as it resumes independent ops | Money | 72 | TechCrunch AI |
| 11 | OpenAI’s listing delay raises stakes for SoftBank’s $50bn data centre IPO | Money | 72 | Financial Times Technology |
| 12 | Has AI broken the old VC model? | Money | 72 | Financial Times Technology |
| 13 | OpenAI and Anthropic are making 10 times more revenue than all Chinese AI models combined, research group Rhodium says | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 14 | DeepMind offshoot nears $4bn valuation just a month after founding | Money | 72 | Financial Times Technology |
| 15 | Holtec pulls IPO over ‘perfect storm’ in AI sector, founder says | Money | 72 | Financial Times Technology |
| 16 | OpenAI investors have approached the company about a new funding round | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 17 | The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid | Money | 72 | MIT Technology Review |
| 18 | Intel, SK Hynix shares jump on report they're discussing U.S. memory chip manufacturing | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 19 | Factory raises $200M for its self-improving software development platform | Money | 72 | SiliconAngle |
| 20 | Euclyd raises $230M+ to develop chips for AI agents | Money | 72 | SiliconAngle |
| 21 | Physical AI security startup Exein raises $270M at $1.7B valuation | Money | 72 | SiliconAngle |
| 22 | Salesforce and Google Cloud Unify Infrastructure and Agents for One Connected AI Stack | Money | 72 | Salesforce Newsroom |
| 23 | What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off | Money | 72 | MIT Technology Review AI |
| 24 | What an AI slowdown could mean for investors | Money | 72 | Financial Times Technology |
| 25 | Samsung backs Nvidia AI chip rival in $230 million funding round as GPU alternatives boom | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 26 | Temporal raises $550M, hits $12.55B valuation as agentic AI wave fuels massive growth | Money | 72 | GeekWire |
| 27 | OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says | Money | 72 | TechCrunch AI |
| 28 | Anthropic eyes Nasdaq listing as a second profitable quarter aims to win over investors ahead of a mega-IPO | Money | 72 | The Decoder |
| 29 | Superhuman acquires YC-backed notetaker Fathom as productivity platforms push for agentic work | Money | 72 | TechCrunch AI |
| 30 | Sophia Space and SLI set the terms for a $300M deal that will finance an orbital computing constellation | Money | 72 | GeekWire |
| 31 | Z.ai shares tumble over 10% after $5 billion fundraising, its second major raise in two months | Money | 72 | CNBC Technology |
| 32 | Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’ | Money | 72 | The Verge AI |
| 33 | OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026 | Money | 72 | TechCrunch AI |
| 34 | Inference hardware startup Delos Data raises $100M+ in funding | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 35 | Open-weight model developer Arcee AI reaches $1B-plus valuation with new funding | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 36 | TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M to build AI for use by software | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 37 | CADDi raises $114M at $1.2B valuation to bring manufacturing AI to North America | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 38 | Noetive launches with $41M to bring self-improving AI to factories and logistics | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 39 | AI agent certification startup AIUC raises $40M to begin auditing frontier models | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 40 | After warning AI is too dangerous, Bill Gates bets a billion on its upside | Money | 68 | The Decoder |
| 41 | Startup Keewano launches agent-focused database and pulls in $12M in funding | Money | 68 | SiliconAngle |
| 42 | AEO startup Profound hits unicorn valuation, raises $180M Series D 7 months after last round | Money | 68 | TechCrunch AI |
| 43 | Wall Street weighs prospect of an AI slowdown on data center buildout | Money | 68 | CNBC Technology |
| 44 | Italian start-up Exein raises $270mn to fight AI hackers with AI | Money | 68 | Financial Times Technology |
| 45 | AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance | Money | 68 | TechCrunch Startups |
| 46 | Global AI stocks slip on concerns over risks | Money | 68 | Financial Times Technology |
| 47 | Gates Foundation bets $1B on AI to boost global health, agriculture and education | Money | 67 | GeekWire |
| 48 | War in the Middle East & Rising Interest Rates Threaten the Funding for AI Build-Out | Money | 65 | Newcomer (VC) |
| 49 | Software reliability specialist Temporal valued at $12.55B in $550M round | Money | 65 | SiliconAngle |
| 50 | Mind raises $72M to stop sensitive data leaking into AI tools | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 51 | Treble nabs $18M to generate audio simulations for robots | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 52 | Compliance automation startup Comp AI raises $34M to push into security | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 53 | How Bain Capital Ventures plans to deploy its fresh $1.6B fund | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Venture |
| 54 | Comp AI sets eyes on a continuously agentic future for security and compliance | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Venture |
| 55 | Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform | Money | 62 | TechCrunch AI |
| 56 | Ex-Infosys chief Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten raises $53M more for enterprise AI services | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 57 | How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Startups |
| 58 | Jack & Jill raises $40M to change the face of job hunting with AI agents | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 59 | Why Thrive, Founders Fund, and Antonio Gracias are betting on hearing aids | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Startups |
| 60 | Profound raises $180M to boost brands’ visibility in AI services | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 61 | Eve Security bags $4.5M in funding to stop malicious AI agents at runtime | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 62 | Startup Evvy raises $40M to accelerate precision diagnostics and medicine for women’s health | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 63 | New Italian unicorn Exein rides the physical AI wave | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Startups |
| 64 | Nuance Labs bags $50M in funding to fix the awkwardness of AI avatars | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 65 | Buildots raises $130 million to expand AI-powered construction platform | Money | 62 | SiliconAngle |
| 66 | Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic | Money | 62 | TechCrunch Venture |
| 67 | Family offices are clamoring for AI investments | Money | 58 | TechCrunch Venture |
| 68 | Former Infosys chief’s AI startup nabs another $53M | Money | 58 | TechCrunch AI |
| 69 | The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management Lead | Money | 55 | Crunchbase News |
| 70 | Larry Ellison cancels $7.5bn Oracle share sale | Money | 55 | Financial Times Technology |
| 71 | Portland startup Antfly raises $2M to streamline data infrastructure for AI agents | Money | 52 | GeekWire |
| 72 | Flam raises $40M in funding to make AI-enabled interactive content a reality | Money | 52 | SiliconAngle |
| 73 | Procurement automation startup Aron launches with $8M in funding | Money | 48 | SiliconAngle |
| 74 | Terry Myerson retires as Truveta CEO, with co-founders stepping in to lead $1B health data startup | Money | 45 | GeekWire |
| 75 | Why delaying an AI doomsday would benefit investors too | Money | 44 | Financial Times Technology |