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Back to SearchEp. 182 | A Grocery Empire Just Bought Its Way Into the AI Arms Race
Episode 182
Cohere, the Canadian AI company founded by former Google Brain researchers, is acquiring Aleph Alpha, the German AI startup, in a transaction valued …
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Ep. 181 | The Company That Runs a Billion AI Requests Raised $1.5 Billion
Episode 181
Baseten raised $1.5 billion in a Series F round in late June 2026, split into two tranches at approximately $13 billion and $11 billion valuations. L…
2 months ago
Ep. 180 | The AI Weapons Company That Wants to Eat Silicon Valley
Episode 180
Anduril Industries, founded by Oculus creator Palmer Luckey, raised five billion dollars in a Series H round at a 61 billion dollar valuation in May …
2 months ago
Ep. 179 | Half-a-Trillion Dollars Just Changed What AI Competition Means
Episode 179
Global startup funding in the first half of 2026 reached $510 billion, the highest half-year total ever recorded. Artificial intelligence absorbed th…
2 months ago
Ep. 178 | The Company That Designed Every Phone Chip Is Now Building Its Own
Episode 178
Arm Holdings unveiled the AGI CPU, a server-class AI and data-center processor that Arm will design and sell directly — a fundamental departure from …
2 months ago
Ep. 177 | Microsoft Just Let an Open-Source AI Into Its Developer Kingdom
Episode 177
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code, a one-trillion-parameter open-weight coding model, became the first open-weight option in GitHub Copilot's model picker…
2 months ago
Ep. 176 | Cloudflare Just Drew a Line in the Sand Over AI Bots
Episode 176
Cloudflare announced in July 2026 that starting September 15, ad-supported websites on its free plan will block AI training crawlers and AI agent cra…
2 months ago
Ep. 175 | A Central Bank Just Called AI a Financial Stability Risk
Episode 175
The Bank of England published its July 2026 Financial Stability Report, explicitly identifying rapid progress in frontier AI as a significant and gro…
2 months ago
Ep. 174 | AI Just Learned to Actually Watch Your Videos
Episode 174
TwelveLabs raised $100 million in a Series B round co-led by NEA and NAVER Ventures, with participation from Amazon and Red Bull Ventures. The compan…
2 months ago
Ep. 173 | A Privacy-First AI Company Just Became a Unicorn
Episode 173
Venice.ai raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly, valuing the company at $1 billion. The company has been profitable since i…
2 months, 1 week ago