Funding
xAI Eyes Massive $15 Bn Raise in December to Buy More GPUs
The deadline for investors to commit funds has reportedly been extended to December 19, 2025, giving backers an additional window to enter.
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Character AI Launches “Stories” — A New Interactive Storytelling Format After Barring Minors from Converse with Chatbots
With Stories, users choose two or three characters, select a genre, and write or auto-generate a story premise.
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Stability AI Partners with Warner Music Group to Build Responsible Generative-AI Tools for Musicians
The partnership aims to develop professional-grade audio tools that enable artists, songwriters, and producers to experiment and compose using ethically trained AI models.
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Israeli Startup Tenzai Raises $75 Mn to Build ‘Autonomous Hacker’ AI for Enterprise Security
Tenzai’s platform uses AI agents to actively hack, exploit, and remediate vulnerabilities in enterprise software.
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Tokyo-Based Sakana AI Raises $135 Mn in Series B to Build Sustainable, Nature-Inspired AI
Founded in July 2023, Sakana AI is building its future around resource-efficient AI development inspired by evolution and collective intelligence.
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Lyzr AI Launches Hacker Labs in Bangalore to Power Agentic Enterprise Future
To drive this mission, Lyzr is hiring three founding engineers.
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Cursor Raises $2.3 Bn, Hits $29.3 Bn Valuation as AI Code Editor Revenue Tops $1 Bn
Anysphere also revealed that its annualised revenue has surpassed $1 billion, underscoring the rapid adoption of AI-assisted software development tools.
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Nyayanidhi Secures $2 Mn to Speed Up India’s Justice System with AI-Powered Litigation Infrastructure
The funds will accelerate the company’s mission to build the digital infrastructure layer for litigation in India, enabling faster, more transparent, and cost-efficient dispute resolution.
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Soket AI Labs Unveils DHRITH, India’s First Emotion-Aware ASR Built for Multilingual, Code-Mixed Speech
The company says the system fills a long-standing gap in India’s AI ecosystem, where global ASR tools often fail to capture cultural and linguistic nuance.
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Top 5 Multi-Billion Dollar Deals OpenAI Signed so Far
OpenAI is essentially scouring the world for guaranteed access to GPUs, specialised hardware, cloud capacity and long-term financial backing.
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Perplexity Cancels Campus Partner Programme in India After Widespread Fraud
The programme offers students free access to Perplexity Pro, referral bonuses, and the chance to earn unlimited rewards for driving new user sign-ups to its Comet browser and AI products
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OpenAI Unveils “Aardvark”—A GPT-5 Powered Agentic Security Researcher in Private Beta
Aardvark uses LLM-powered reasoning and tool-use to scan repositories, build threat models, monitor commits, and validate exploitability in a sandboxed environment.