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Three U.S.-based AI companies raised rounds larger than $1 billion so far in 2026, with 14 others raising rounds of $100 million or more.

India is ramping up shared AI compute, adding 20,000 GPUs as part of a broader push to attract global AI investment.

Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

Indian vibe-coding platform Emergent was launched just eight months ago, and it now says it's generating annual recurring revenue of more than $100 million, thanks to surging demand by small businesses and non-technical users.

SpendRule, launched last summer, is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare systems track their spending.

Adani's plan targets up to 5 gigawatts of capacity, with data centers planned alongside partnerships with Google, Microsoft, and Flipkart.

The feature allows users to cancel eligible bookings if there is a change of plans -- without losing money up front.

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might.

The reason why this nascent startup had VCs lining up is the founders.They are so famed in the AI world, everyone tried to hire them.

"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."

"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

Terra Industries, the African defense company, announced Monday that it had secured an additional $22 million in funding to further expand the business. 

C2i has raised $15 million as it tests a grid-to-GPU approach to reducing power losses in AI data centers.

Neysa is targeting deployments of more than 20,000 GPUs over time as demand for local AI compute accelerates.

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him.

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.