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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026, in Washington. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images OpenAI on Thursday announced it’s acquiring Astral, a small startup that builds popular open source tools for software developers. Astral’s team will join OpenAI and help build out its artificial intelligence coding assistant called […]
Crypto-focused Erebor Bank became the first bank to receive a national bank charter during the second term of the Trump administration, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The approval allows the Palmer Luckey-backed entity to operate as a bank nationwide, and occurred less than eight months after it applied for a charter with the Office of […]
Brex co-founders Pedro Franceschi and Henrique Dubugras. Brex Capital One said Thursday that it was acquiring payments startup Brex for $5.15 billion, the latest splashy deal undertaken by the bank’s CEO, Richard Fairbank. The firm, which disclosed the deal in its fourth-quarter earnings statement, said the deal is made up of 50% cash and 50% […]
Pictured here is Moonshot AI’s Kimi chatbot displayed on a smartphone. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — An Alibaba-backed AI startup is currently being valued at $4.8 billion in a fresh funding round, two people with knowledge of the deal said, just weeks after it was valued at $4.3 billion. Moonshot AI is the […]
Founder and CEO of CrowdStrike George Kurtz speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the Nvidia GTC, or GPU Technology Conference, in Washington, Oct. 28, 2025. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images CrowdStrike announced Thursday that it is buying identity management startup SGNL in a deal valued at nearly $740 million as the cybersecurity […]
Meta Platforms is plowing ahead in the AI arms race, snapping up fast-rising startup Manus for more than $2 billion in a lightning deal that delivers a revenue-generating AI agent business — and draws fresh scrutiny over the new acquisition’s Chinese roots. The sale, which was reported by The Wall Street Journal, caps a meteoric […]
Emilija Manevska | Moment | Getty Images Artificial intelligence startup Cursor on Thursday announced it has closed a $2.3 billion funding round at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation, nearly triple what it was worth as of its last raise in June. Tune in at 4:30 p.m. ET as Cursor CEO Michael Truell joins “Closing Bell: […]
Code Metal co-founders (L-R): SVP of technology Alex Showalter-Bucher, and CEO Peter Morales Courtesy Code Metal Inc. Peter Morales started Code Metal two years ago, jumping into the market for artificial intelligence coding tools at a time when AI companies were rapidly changing the market for software development. Now he’s got $36.5 million in the […]
A Silicon Valley startup backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong is pursuing research that some fear could lead to the birth of a genetically engineered baby — a step that’s illegal under US law and banned in most countries, a report said. The company, Preventive, says its goal is to end hereditary […]
Govini, a defense tech software startup taking on the likes of Palantir, has blown past $100 million in annual recurring revenue, the company announced Friday. “We’re growing faster than 100% in a three-year CAGR, and I expect that next year we’ll continue to do the same,” CEO Tara Murphy Dougherty told CNBC’s Morgan Brennan in […]
