Artificial Intelligence
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into the Missing Layers of the AI Economy
AI funding this week looked less like a race to build another model and more like a race to build everything those models need. Capital moved into training data, AI clouds, enterprise agents, security and governance. At the same time, hundreds of millions flowed toward drug discovery, brain-computer interfaces, photonics, advanced materials, energy infrastructure and […]
Claude Opus 5.5 Explained: Why Cost per Task Matters More Than Token Price
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, as the first model in its Claude 5.5 family. It costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, supports a 1 million-token context window, and can produce up to 128,000 output tokens in normal use. Those specifications tell only part of the […]
Project Ventures Wants to Turn Imperial’s Alumni Network Into Deeptech Investment Infrastructure
The London-based firm, Project Ventures has launched a £5 million debut fund for pre-seed and seed companies emerging from or connected to the Imperial College London ecosystem. Initial investments will typically range from £100,000 to £300,000, with Project Ventures targeting startups where AI converges with science and engineering across areas including robotics, healthcare, climate, energy […]
AI Funding This Week: Capital Moves Into Infrastructure and the Physical Economy
The largest technology checks this week reveal a market expanding outward. AI models remain important, but investors increasingly funded what surrounds them: compute, software reliability, robotics, physical-world security, construction intelligence, specialized finance, healthcare operations and energy infrastructure. Rather than another list of sectors, this week’s funding can be read as six shifts in where technology […]
From ‘Superior Intelligence’ to an ‘AI Force’: Trump’s New AI Push
President Donald Trump is proposing changes to both the language surrounding artificial intelligence and the way his administration oversees its growth. In social-media posts on September 19, Trump first questioned whether “Artificial Intelligence” accurately describes the technology and asked users to choose among three alternatives: Superior Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence and Supreme Intelligence. Later, he said […]
This Week in Funding: AI Capital Spreads Into Chips, Space, Defense and Industry
This week’s largest checks still belonged to AI, but the broader funding map was far more physical. Capital moved into inference chips, spacecraft, laser defense, industrial manufacturing, climate infrastructure, wealth technology and freight execution. The pattern is becoming clearer: investors are backing not only intelligence, but the systems required to deploy it. 🤖 AI & […]
AI Beyond the Model: The Funding Deals Shaping Tech This Week
AI funding did not belong to one layer of the stack this week. Large checks went into enterprise agents, inference infrastructure and AI governance, while capital simultaneously moved into batteries, medical imaging, defense lasers, space launch systems, quantum computing and renewable-energy finance. The pattern is becoming harder to ignore: investors are financing not only better […]
This Week in Funding: AI Capital Spreads Into Everything Around the Model
AI still commanded the biggest checks this week, but the more interesting pattern appeared underneath them. Capital moved into GPUs, physical AI, healthcare workflows, accounting, robotics, grid storage and quantum software. The model race is increasingly creating investment opportunities in everything models need to become useful. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Alibaba raises HK$80B for […]
Biggest Tech Funding Rounds This Week: AI, Defense and DeepTech
From billion-dollar defense rounds to AI infrastructure, healthcare, robotics and fintech, capital moved across the technology stack this week. 🤖 AI & AI Infrastructure Neuromorphic Labs raises $5.1M for verifiable trust infrastructure across production AI systems. OpenRouter joins Stripe, combining AI model routing with global payments infrastructure. Wispr raises $280M to turn voice into a […]
10,000+ Job Postings Show How AI Is Reshaping Software Engineering
For decades, one of the clearest ways to measure a software engineer was by what they could build with their own hands. AI is beginning to complicate that equation. An analysis from Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI gives that transition a useful evidence base. Its AI Engineering Skills Map draws on more than 10,000 job postings, […]
Aisot Raises CHF 2M to Scale AI Portfolio Intelligence
Zurich-based Aisot Technologies has built its business around that filtering problem. The ETH Zurich spin-off combines quantitative finance, machine learning and LLM-based news sentiment analysis to help asset managers, wealth managers and family offices turn large volumes of market information into portfolio decisions. The company has now closed a CHF 2 million seed extension, backed […]
Gemini 3.7 Flash Moves Complex AI Work Into a Lower-Cost Tier
The old model hierarchy was easy to understand. Bigger models handled the difficult reasoning; Flash models earned their place through speed and lower cost. Gemini 3.7 Flash is designed to make that division less obvious. Google is positioning its latest Flash release as a production model for coding, multi-step agents and knowledge work, while keeping […]