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The Subvocal Company (YC F26) is building smart glasses that decode silently mouthed words into text, so people can talk to their computer without speaking out loud.
Sequoia led the Series A, with Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures; the one-year-old startup's platform lets companies post-train open-source models for fields such as law and finance.
Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to buy Cresta, a nine-year-old maker of AI contact-center automation software; The Information reports the price at $2.7 billion.
a16z led the $75M Series B, per Tutor's own site and a16z, with Union Square Ventures and Neo; SiliconANGLE's report calls it a Series A. Tutor's warehouse and factory robots are sold on usage-based pricing.
Pelion Ventures led the Series A in the AI adoption-measurement startup, which links AI tool use to productivity and spend data; it has raised $47M in total.
The Israeli startup's behavioral world model predicts how traders act in volatile markets; ten large brokerages work with it. The $62.5M, which 42AI calls seed funding, came from its founders and Infinity Group.
Heartcore and Seedcamp led the pre-seed in the Munich startup, whose AI 'coworkers' learn how people work before automating it.
Lumentum investors would receive 4.5 Marvell shares for each Lumentum share in the $115 billion deal.
Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.
Clean (YC Fall 2026) gives sales teams and their agents real-time data on what just changed at each account.
Momentic (YC W24) builds QA agents that plan, explore and bug-bash user flows in web, iOS and Android apps to catch bugs.
Letterpress-1 re-imagines every aspect of developer tooling for engineering growth.
Cloud VMs for running complex environments across many agent sessions
Ryhla (YC Fall 2026) builds data and models of the distribution grid to speed up grid connections for projects.
Rewbi (YC S24) deploys 1-10MW distributed data centers in existing industrial buildings with surplus power.
Anthropic's updated S-1 adds the third-quarter results that the first filing, released a week earlier, left out.
Sources: institutional investors told Anthropic that its IPO valuation should be around $1.5T to $1.6T, down from estimates of $2T, citing a tech stock selloff — Institutional investors who plan to buy shares in IPO show concern following a selloff in tech stocks
US commercial revenue rose 148% to $984M and topped US government revenue ($953M) for the first time.
OpenAI will pilot the program at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, promising to free up to 1,000 megawatts during extreme weather or emergencies.
Cheaper intelligence raises the bar for what an AI application can charge
Evals without traces, million-cell tabular reviews, and cracks in the billable hour as a business model
Record venture funding in 2026 has been increasingly concentrated in massive AI rounds, while seed- and early-stage deal counts are on the decline. Using Crunchbase data we provide a look at how third-quarter funding continued the year's dollars-up-but-deals-down trend.
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