The browser war has entered a new phase this year: the fight is no longer just about search results, but over which AI company can act on your behalf within the browser. Google Chrome and Apple’s Safari still dominate the overall market, and Chrome’s advantage comes largely from how aggressively it has weaved generative AI
Cascade, a startup building a platform to help architecture, engineering and construction firms find and win projects, has raised a $3.5 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures and Snowball VC. Launched in 2025, Cascade is the result of its founders, Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, witnessing firsthand the difficulties construction companies face
Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is changing the way companies protect employee devices. The Palo Alto-based startup said Wednesday it raised $180 million in an all-equity Series A funding round that valued it at $1.2 billion, with backing from
As AI chips become more powerful (and hotter), data centers are turning to liquid instead of air to cool servers. For newer AI systems, fans alone cannot remove enough heat. That change has created a new problem: preventing the coolant from degrading or becoming contaminated. Omen AI announced a $31 million funding round in June
For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help companies create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost typically associated with developing corporate educational materials. The startup’s newest product is making a different bet: that the real moat of enterprise AI is not just generating content, but proving that it
AI infrastructure company Infinity on Monday announced a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers at companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. The startup is creating software to make it easier for AI chips to run AI models. A big reason why Nvidia became the top