Artificial Intelligence

Stord: $250 Million Series F Raised At $3 Billion Valuation To Advance Physical Intelligence Layer For Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 26, 2026

Stord announced a $250 million Series F funding round at a $3 billion valuation as the company accelerates its investment in AI, robotics, and fulfillment infrastructure for commerce brands. The round was led by existing investors and included participation from Strike Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Franklin Templeton, Baillie Gifford, G Squared, Bond, and Lux, among others.

Stilta Closes $10.5 Million For Agentic AI Patent Litigation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Stilta, an AI company focused on patent litigation and intelligence, announced $10.5 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Y Combinator and founders and operators from leading AI companies including Sana, Legora, OpenAI, Lovable, and Listen Labs.

OpenAI Signs Strategic Content Partnership With Grupo Folha And Grupo UOL In Brazil

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

OpenAI announced a strategic content partnership with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL, marking the company’s first media partnership in Brazil. Through the agreement, journalism from Folha de S.Paulo and UOL will now be integrated into ChatGPT, allowing more than 900 million weekly active ChatGPT users globally to access summaries and content based on reporting from the Brazilian media organizations.

Anthropic Reportedly Raising Over $30 Billion At $900+ Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Anthropic is reportedly preparing to close a massive new funding round that could exceed $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. The deal, which could close as soon as next week, would position Anthropic ahead of OpenAI as the world’s most valuable AI startup.

D-Wave Quantum: $100 Million CHIPS Act Funding Proposal To Advance U.S. Quantum Computing Leadership

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

D-Wave Quantum announced that it signed a Letter of Intent with the U.S. Department of Commerce for $100 million in proposed funding under the CHIPS and Science Act, a move designed to accelerate the company’s superconducting annealing and gate-model quantum computing development efforts.

Polsia: $30 Million At $250 Million Valuation Raised For AI Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Polsia announced it raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation as the company advances its vision to enable AI agents to run large portions of business operations autonomously.

McKinsey: AppliedAI Collaboration Aims To Rapidly Rewire Regulated Enterprise Processes With AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

AppliedAI and McKinsey & Company announced a collaboration to help regulated enterprises transform mid and back-office operations using agentic AI. The partnership combines McKinsey’s transformation and change management expertise, including its QuantumBlack division, with AppliedAI’s Opus platform, an Agentic Process Execution (APX) system designed to build, run, optimize, and govern AI-powered enterprise workflows.

Sonar Acquires Gitar To Expand AI Code Verification Platform With AI Code Review

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Sonar announced it has acquired Gitar, an AI-native code review platform, expanding Sonar’s code verification platform to include AI-powered code review capabilities. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Fractional AI: Anthropic-Led AI Services Venture Acquires Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Anthropic, alongside Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and a consortium of major investment firms, announced that its newly formed AI-native enterprise services company has acquired AI implementation startup Fractional AI. The deal is designed to accelerate enterprise adoption of Anthropic’s Claude models among mid-sized businesses.

Nvidia: $200 Billion CPU Market Forecast Includes China

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the company’s forecast for a $200 billion CPU market opportunity includes China, highlighting Nvidia’s continued focus on the country despite ongoing U.S.-China technology tensions and export restrictions, according to Reuters.

Moment: $78 Million Raised For AI Operating System Powering Investment Management

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Moment, an AI operating system built for investment management, announced it has raised $78 million in a Series C funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Avra, and existing investors. The funding comes less than 10 months after the company’s $36 million Series B round, which was also led by Index Ventures.

Magnific: €10 Million Fund Launched For European Marketing Teams To Scale AI-Driven Creative Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 25, 2026

Magnific (formerly Freepik) announced the launch of the Magnific Fund, a €10 million initiative aimed at helping in-house marketing teams across the European Union scale their AI-powered creative operations and transition from experimentation into production-ready execution.