AI Week in Review: August 3 – 9, 2026

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a.

The AI-focused hedge fund is still making some big bets.

Startups raised funding rounds with a lot of zeroes at the end this week, with three companies securing financings of $1 billion or more.

Hadrian is building automated factories to mass-produce parts for defense vehicles like submarines. It's backed by a long list of well-known investors.

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI systems.

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untrustworthy for.

$100 million deal gives 50,000 Ukrainian drones US-developed AI capabilities.

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

Base Power's $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual.

We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship, and.

Below, we break down some of tech's biggest stories, with analyst perspective on the moves that matter the most.

HappyRobot Inc., a San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup that automates enterprise operations, said today it raised $150 million, led by Prysm Capital and co-led by Eurazeo, bringing the company's post-money valuation to $1.2 billion.

Artificial intelligence hardware startup Olix Computing Ltd. today announced that it has raised $312 million in funding. The Series C round included contributions from Arm Holding plc, Netflix Inc. co-founder Reed Hastings and several others.

Autonomous security solutions startup Horizon3.ai Inc. today announced it has raised $250 million in a Series E round on a valuation of more than $2 billion to build out its sales operation and expand into Australia and Singapore.