Starcloud raised $250mn to buy rockets it cannot yet book

Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Castelion raises $1bn at $13bn to scale hypersonic weapon production

Relativity Networks raised $22mn to make AI’s fibre run at nearly light speed

A British AI-chip startup is raising at $6.5bn after an Anthropic deal

Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver

Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished

Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand

Europe’s ‘Made in EU’ rules start at 5%, and they do not mention software

Airbnb’s CEO says nobody builds AI for normal people. He is on Y Combinator’s board

Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US

Legora is reportedly chasing a $10bn valuation, barely a season after its last raise

Beyond algorithms: Booker Loud on building social platforms people trust

Megadeals took 87.5% of US venture dollars, and the rest of the market is priced by vintage

China would not let Meta keep Manus. Users have until 24 August to save their work

Vingroup’s VinSpace signs SpaceX to launch Vietnam’s first home-built satellites

Exclusive: Vienna’s fonio.ai hits $10m ARR less than a year after switching on subscriptions

WindBorne’s AI beats the government’s weather forecasts. Making money from them is the harder problem

Google may spend $1.5bn on a 35-person startup to catch up on AI coding

A startup that slashes AI agent bills just raised $35M. Anthropic is a backer.

Google named the new boss of Gemini 4. Both of Gemini’s co-leads quit the same day

Moove raises $250m at a $2.1bn valuation to run robotaxi fleets

EVgo is putting 500 new fast chargers in the parking lots of American shopping centres

Ex-Nubank team raises $85m for Decade, an AI wealth adviser promising “a generation of millionaires”

Bending Spoons is buying Airtable for $1.285bn: “We’re committed for the long run”

Nvidia and Dell back AI cloud startup Volta at a $2.4bn valuation

The AI boom runs on metal. A two-year-old startup just raised $310m to mine it, autonomously, on US soil.

The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

A startup that lets AI hack your own network just tripled to $2bn, days after AI models hacked networks for real.