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Meet Aman Sanger, the 25-year-old Indian-origin entrepreneur whose AI startup Cursor is being acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for $60 billion: From coding at 14 and MIT to a potential $2.7 billion fortune
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Meet Aman Sanger, the 25-year-old Indian-origin entrepreneur whose AI startup Cursor is being acquired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX for $60 billion: From coding at 14 and MIT to a potential $2.7 billion fortune

A 25-year-old MIT dropout has sold his artificial intelligence startup to Elon Musk's SpaceX for $60 billion, a deal that would value him at nearly $2.7 billion and mark one of the largest acquisitions in tech history—raising urgent questions about whether the AI coding space has reached bubble valuations and what exactly Musk believes Cursor's technology can do for rocket science. Aman Sanger, who began coding at 14, has built Cursor into a tool that developers swear has fundamentally changed how they write software, but the eye-watering price tag suggests either a transformative breakthrough or a speculative fever that

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AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

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Clay valued at $7.1 billion in latest funding round as AI agent startups run hot

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Mistral Robotics chief seeks $231 million to out-data physical AI rivals
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Mistral Robotics chief seeks $231 million to out-data physical AI rivals

Mistral AI robotics spinout: the head of Mistral's robotics division is leaving to launch an independent startup seeking $231 million -- potentially the largest founding-stage raise in European...

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Harvey just got $550 million to chase bigger AI ambitions
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Harvey just got $550 million to chase bigger AI ambitions

Legal AI startup Harvey has raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, more than tripling its customer base since March. In its announcement, Harvey detailed that the funding comes after it ...

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Upping the Antioch: Kiwi-founded physical AI startup's $54m round
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Upping the Antioch: Kiwi-founded physical AI startup's $54m round

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Runway AI Hits $200M ARR as Enterprise Video Adoption Triples Existing Spend

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AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raises $47M to build an AI agent-ready replacement for Salesforce

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Peter Thiel-Backed AI Startup Cognition Raises Funds at $48 Billion Valuation
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Peter Thiel-Backed AI Startup Cognition Raises Funds at $48 Billion Valuation

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Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B
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Harvey hits $15.5B valuation, months after reaching $11B

The legal AI startup and VC darling has nearly doubled its valuation in nine months.

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Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Reportedly Lining Up $75B Shanghai IPO to Fight Off Rivals

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Runway buys France's Kinetix, crosses $200M ARR in physical AI push

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AI Startup Runway Hits $200 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue
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AI Startup Runway Hits $200 Million in Annual Recurring Revenue

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ElevenLabs Went From $0 to $600M+ ARR in 41 Months. When the AI Agent Closes the Deal, They Still Pay the Human. With Carles Reina, First VP of Revenue

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CRM Stock Dips 2% — Salesforce Is Reportedly In Talks To Acquire AI Research Firm Listen Labs For $2B
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CRM Stock Dips 2% — Salesforce Is Reportedly In Talks To Acquire AI Research Firm Listen Labs For $2B

Salesforce Inc. (CRM) stock eased about 2% on Wednesday amid reports that the firm has held talks to acquire artificial intelligence startup Listen Labs in a transaction valued at around $2 billion,...

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Legal AI Startup Harvey Hits $15.6 Billion Value With $550 Million Round
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Legal AI Startup Harvey Hits $15.6 Billion Value With $550 Million Round

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Euno raises $23M to build the AI-native context brain for autonomous agents
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Euno raises $23M to build the AI-native context brain for autonomous agents

Israeli artificial intelligence startup Euno says it’s trying to build an AI-native “context brain” for autonomous agents after raising $23 million in an early-stage funding today.

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What the founders of Cal AI are doing now after they have sold their app for millions?

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Alphabet’s CapitalG Backs AI Chip Startup Celero at $3 Billion Value

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