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OpenAI’s Bubeck denies trying to cut Anthropic mathematician from credit24m ago 10 of the scariest AI villains in movie history25m ago Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal26m ago Agent Security Is Not AI Governance: Why Conflating The Two Is A Risk Enterprises Can't Afford29m ago Positron Valued at $5 Billion in New Funding as Demand for AI Chips Surges36m ago 7 Steps to Become a Forward Deployed Engineer in 202644m ago Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports56m ago Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month59m ago D-Matrix Connects Raptor XPUs to NVIDIA AI Factories via NVLink Fusion1h ago Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)1h ago Mother Horrified When Instagram’s AI Scours Social Media for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters1h ago Mach Industries, which makes unmanned military vehicles and weapons, raised $600M in an extension to its $300M Series C, doubling its valuation to $3.7B1h ago Salesforce Unveils Six-Capability Trusted AI Harness for Enterprises1h ago US closes $1.9bn loan to restart the Iowa nuclear plant powering Google1h ago

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40 Companies Joined The Unicorn Board In July, The Highest Count In 4 Years

CrunchbasePublished 27 days ago

In July, 40 companies joined the Crunchbase Unicorn Board, marking the highest monthly total in over four years, with three valued above $10 billion. The new unicorns span sectors like financial services, robotics, AI orchestration, energy, and semiconductors, with significant contributions from the U.S., China, and other countries. This surge has pushed the total new unicorns in the first half of 2026 beyond the entire 2025 count.

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