AI Week in Review: June 29 – July 5, 2026

The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.

U.S. startups announced sizable funding rounds at a steady clip during a truncated holiday week, with energy and AI leading the way. Houston-based energy...

Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more are now more numerous than at any point since the 2021 market peak, Crunchbase data shows. The trend we're seeing...

Plex is pushing customers to newer features and more frequent payments.

Selby's VC firm Copper Sky Capital is currently raising a $300 million second fund, according to a regulatory filing.

Investors poured more than $200 billion into startups globally in the just-ended quarter, making Q2 2026 the second-largest quarter on record, our data shows.

VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.

Data center builder Crusoe Inc. is reportedly in talks to raise a $3 billion funding round. Bloomberg on Thursday cited sources as saying that the deal could value the company at $30 billion. That's about three times what Crusoe was worth last year.

Tripo AI, a developer of interactive 3D foundation models and world models, said today it has closed on a hefty $150 million Series A3 funding round to scale up its platform in the intelligent manufacturing, entertainment and robotics industries. The startup attracted a broad base of investors...

Startups worldwide raised a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, according to a new report out today from market intelligence company Crunchbase Inc. The figure was more than investors put into venture deals across all of last year, when the total came to $440 billion. The first half...

Prague-based artificial intelligence developer EquiLibre Technologies Inc. has raised funding at a valuation exceeding $500 million. The company stated late Tuesday that the Series A round was led by Creandum, a Stockholm-based startup fund. The size of the raise was not disclosed. However...

TwelveLabs will use the funds to expand research into AI video search engines and intelligence extraction.

We raised $800M to accelerate the shift to open-source AI. Here's why the economics of closed models don't scale, and what we're building next.

Etched Inc., a developer of artificial intelligence inference chips, launched today with $800 million in funding. The startup raised the capital over multiple rounds. The most recent investment, which closed in December, valued Etched at $5 billion. It included the participation of VentureTech...