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Rillet, an AI-native accounting platform, raised $100M in Series C at a $1B valuation in just 48 hours after its board meeting due to explosive growth amid the U.S. accountant shortage.
Payment giant Stripe is set to acquire AI infrastructure startup OpenRouter in its largest-ever deal as it expands deeper into the AI economy.
UK AI chip startup Fractile is targeting a $6.5 billion valuation following a major deal with Anthropic, positioning itself as a challenger to Nvidia.
Venture funding for physical AI, robotics, autonomous vehicles, and aerospace startups surged to $47.4B across 521 deals in H1 2026, a dramatic increase from prior periods.
Starcloud extended its Series A by $250M (valuing it at $2.3B) with backing from Nvidia and Cisco to build manufacturing and launch orbital AI data centers amid constrained rocket availability.
Letara, a Sapporo-based company developing hybrid propulsion, raised $16M to scale from satellite thrusters to full rocket systems for space, defense, and security markets.
NASA’s Curiosity rover imaged a vast field of 4-8 cm polygons on Mars for the first time at ground level, likely ancient mud cracks formed by wet-dry cycles.
The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered stunning new images revealing dense star-forming regions and intricate structures at the center of the Carina Nebula.
Updated simulations of planetary formation suggest that rocky worlds like Earth may be more common than previously thought across the galaxy.
Coinbase’s head of AI product says we are in the early “Napster era” of AI agents transacting autonomously via stablecoins on blockchain networks.
Nvidia announced a major financing platform with leading investment firms to channel over $500 billion into AI compute infrastructure development.
X (formerly Twitter) is reportedly developing plans to compensate content creators and influencers using stablecoins as part of its evolving crypto strategy.