Databricks Valuation Hits $188B on AI Reinvention Story
Databricks has reached a $188 billion valuation, according to TechCrunch AI on July 17, 2026, as the data platform doubles…
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Bezos, UK’s Sovereign AI Fund Back CuspAI’s $450M Materials Round
Jeff Bezos and the UK government-backed Sovereign AI investment vehicle have put money into CuspAI, a UK startup building AI…
Anthropic Eyes $10bn Compute Lease From Meta, Per Report
Anthropic is reportedly weighing a deal worth roughly $10 billion to lease compute capacity from Meta, according to Datacenter Dynamics…
Prior Labs Closes Acquisition, Backed by €1B+ War Chest
Prior Labs announced on July 17, 2026 that it has closed an acquisition and secured backing exceeding €1 billion to…
NetApp Buys DataPelago to Push GPU Data Processing Into Storage
NetApp has acquired DataPelago, a startup building GPU-accelerated data processing software, in a deal aimed at moving heavy AI data-pipeline…
DeepSeek’s $7.4B Round Powers Asia’s $42.8B Q2 Funding Peak
Crunchbase data show Asia-wide startup funding hit $42.8 billion in Q2 2026, the highest quarterly total in more than three…
Anaconda Buys Kilo Code, an Open-Source AI Coding Tool Used by 3M Devs
Anaconda has acquired Kilo Code, a model-agnostic, open-source AI coding platform with more than three million developers, as the Python…
Apaluma Raises $5.55M Seed to Build Unified Gov-Data Platform
Apaluma announced a $5.55 million seed round on July 16, 2026, to scale a platform that stitches together disparate government…
Nebius Locks $1B+ Reflection AI Deal Through 2029, Goes Asset-Light
Nebius is pivoting from capital-heavy buildout to partnership-based expansion, anchored by a Reflection AI contract eciks.org values at over $1…
TRG Screen Buys Market Data Consultancy BST America
TRG Screen, a subscription and market data spend management vendor for banks and law firms, has completed its acquisition of…