Some of Wall Street’s biggest financial firms are partnering with Nvidia Corp. to pour a half-trillion dollars of funding into the artificial intelligence industry’s massive infrastructure buildout. Nvidia said today it has struck deals with Apollo Global Management Inc., BlackRock Inc., Blackstone Inc., Brookfield Corp., The Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group and KKR & […]
Source: siliconangle.com
Asia’s startup funding swung higher in the first quarter of this year, boosted by a rebound in Chinese venture investment. Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels. Total funding…
Enterprise AI teams running centralized orchestration stacks now have a new variable to account for: AWS Quick, which expanded this week to a desktop-native agent that builds a persistent personal knowledge graph and executes actions across local files and SaaS tools — outside the visibility of most control planes. Unlike chat-based copilots that reset with…
As artificial intelligence agents become more powerful, agentic AI governance becomes increasingly important – and yet, today’s governance solutions struggle to keep AI agents from going off the rails. In my last article in this series, I discussed the state of the art for keeping agents on the rails: multiple diverse adversarial validators with multilayer…
Throne Science, a startup that makes an AI-powered toilet camera to track gut health and hydration, has raised $10 million in a Series A round led by Will Ventures, it told Crunchbase News exclusively. Emerson Collective, Workshop, LEAD VC, Salt VC, Accomplice, Moxxie Ventures, and several other investors also participated in the financing. The round…
Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2026 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Board. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding deal…