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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B
Italian mobile app maker Bending Spoons announced a $1.28 billion cash acquisition of spreadsheet and database startup Airtable, marking its first deal since going public.
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Polar Raises $5.7M After a Customer Fired Clay
The AI‑powered browser‑assistant startup Polar secured a $5.7 million seed round after its product saved a client 25+ hours per person per week, prompting the client to cancel its Clay subscription.
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Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
Tesla has built its 10 millionth electric vehicle, a milestone that brings it closer to its CEO Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay package goals.
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Hint, a new AI startup co‑founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
Martha Stewart joined Hint’s founding team to launch an AI app that manages home maintenance, energy, and documents through a conversational assistant.
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Bot‑detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight
Cybersecurity startup Spur raised a $200 million round led by Insight Partners to enhance its bot‑detection platform for enterprises.
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Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume
Multiple robotics companies are tackling one of AI’s hardest problems: building foundation models capable of executing tasks they were never explicitly trained to handle. Enigma, a research lab set to emerge from stealth, wants to study how humans engage with robots to create intuitive interfaces.
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Travis Kalanick’s Atoms secures $1.7bn to scale physical AI businesses
The former Uber founder’s industrial AI venture raises a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to automate mining, food production, construction and transport.
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Paper raised $34M on the exact thesis that wiped out half of Figma's market cap
San Francisco startup Paper closed a $34 million Series A on July 23, 2026, building a design platform that renders every element in real HTML and CSS, positioning it as a direct competitor to Figma.
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Prentis, new AI lab co‑founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M
The AI research lab Prentis, founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking a $100 million round to accelerate its AI development and commercialization efforts.
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SkyPilot, from Databricks’ cofounder, raises $20M to be the Switzerland of AI compute
SkyPilot announced a $20 million Series A round to expand its AI compute platform, positioning itself as a neutral, high‑performance cloud for AI workloads.
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Meshy raises nearly $400 million to build AI‑generated interactive worlds
Meshy secured a Series B round to push its 3D generation platform beyond static assets into real‑time, AI‑driven game worlds and mechanics.
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Bezos backs CuspAI as startup hunts for new chip materials with Nvidia
Jeff Bezos’ Bezos Expeditions invested in British AI‑materials startup CuspAI, which partners with Nvidia to discover new semiconductor and clean‑energy materials.
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Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin
Moonshot is seeking shareholder approval for a Hong Kong IPO after its Kimi K3 model drives demand and revenue, while Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 also goes open‑weight.
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RedBear AI Completes Hundreds of Millions of Yuan Series A+ Financing, Expands from B2B Services to B2C Applications Based on AI "Memory Science"
RedBear AI has closed a Series A+ round of hundreds of millions of RMB, pushing its valuation to nearly 3 billion RMB and expanding its focus from B2B to B2C AI‑memory‑driven applications.
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Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
Databricks announced a new funding round that values the company at $188 billion, marking a continued surge in enterprise AI investment.
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Singularity lands $80M at $400M valuation to build cheap drone interceptors
Air defense startup Singularity Defense Corp. raises $80 million in new funding at a $400 million valuation to mass‑produce low‑cost interceptors that can knock down cheap drones and missiles.
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DeepSeek reportedly in talks to raise $1.5B, then IPO
The Chinese LLM developer is preparing for a 2027 IPO and a $1.5 billion funding round at a $71 billion valuation, following a $7 billion round last month.
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Tech News Digest for July 17, 2026
Daily roundup of the latest technology stories, including AI breakthroughs, startup funding, and infrastructure updates.
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AI‑powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M
Fora announced a $60 million Series D round that values the company at $1 billion, funding its AI assistant Via to help travel agents automate administrative tasks.
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Emergent emerges as the latest AI unicorn after raising $130M in funding
Vibe coding startup Emergent Labs closed a Series C round that values the company at $1.5 billion, making it one of the fastest‑growing AI unicorns.