AI business strategy, funding, pricing and market moves.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Appeals court hears first fair-use argument in AI training case

The Third Circuit's review of Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence is expected to shape every generative AI copyright case still in the pipeline.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Taktile raises $110M for agentic decisioning in banking and insurance

Goldman Sachs Alternatives led the Series C round, betting on AI systems that make high-stakes decisions inside regulated workflows.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

OpenAI and Anthropic alone capture 43% of H1 2026 startup funding

The two labs accounted for $217 billion of all global startup investment in the first half of the year, per Crunchbase data.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Student AI use jumps 26% in a year as K-12 adoption nears universal

Educator use of AI rose 21% over the same period, according to Microsoft's third annual AI in Education report.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Global startup funding hits record $510B in H1 2026 on AI boom

Crunchbase data shows startup exits, IPOs and M&A all accelerating as AI investment drives the strongest first half on record.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Academic integrity worries schools even as AI adoption accelerates

Roughly four in ten students and educators cite integrity concerns, while under half of schools have offered any formal AI guidance.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

OpenAI's proposed government stake reportedly valued at $42.6B

Sam Altman has floated a structure giving Washington a 5% OpenAI stake, alongside similar stakes from other leading labs.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

88% of 2026 AI funding has gone to US companies

Despite a genuinely global AI boom, American startups continue to absorb the overwhelming majority of AI-focused investment dollars.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Investors pivot toward physical-world and regulated AI bets

Capital is increasingly flowing to AI hardware, robotics and agentic systems built for high-stakes, compliance-heavy workflows.

Business9 Jul 2026 · 1 min

AI-driven startup funding shatters North American H1 2026 records

Crunchbase reports North America's strongest first half on record for startup investment, with AI cited as the dominant driver.

Business8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Ex-Optimus engineer launches European humanoid robot startup UMA

Rémi Cadène, who worked on Tesla's Optimus and built Hugging Face's LeRobot, raised roughly $40 million in seed funding for the Northstar robot.

Business8 Jul 2026 · 1 min

Nvidia's next-gen Kyber AI system reportedly slips to 2028

A circuit board issue is said to have pushed the Kyber NVL144 rack-scale system a year past its original 2027 target, per semiconductor analysts.