New Unicorn Counts in H1 2026 Already Passed 2025’s Full-Year Total
Crunchbase links the surge to AI, robotics and chips; 311 companies had joined by the end of September.
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Optical Circuit Switching Seen Growing to More Than $8 Billion by Decade’s End
Cignal AI's projection, cited with Salience Labs' October raise, points to networking as the next AI bottleneck.
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Get in Touch‘Model Fatigue’ Sets In as Labs Race Out New Versions
CNBC's September report described buyers struggling to keep up with the pace of releases.
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Twenty AI and Chip Stocks Lose More Than $1 Trillion in a Week as Financing Fears Spread
CNBC cites rate hikes, AI debt and competition behind the October 12 to 15 sell-off.
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Memory Chip Stocks Are Hammered as China’s CXMT Fuels Oversupply Fears
SK Hynix fell 26% over five days, Samsung 22% and Micron about 11%, CNBC reported.
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Alibaba Opens the Weights of Its Most Powerful Qwen Model
Qwen3.8 includes a laptop-ready 27-billion-parameter model pitched for coding and agentic tasks.
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Robotics Has Raised $55.8 Billion in 2026, With China Surging
Dealroom and Crunchbase data show physical AI becoming a major funding category.
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AI Chip Startup Funding Stays Hot: SambaNova at $11 Billion, Etched and Rebellions Raise
After Cerebras' IPO, challengers to Nvidia are raising at rising valuations.
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Crunchbase: Q3 2026 Posted a Record Count of Billion-Dollar Rounds
The quarter's data shows the AI race pushing large rounds to new highs.
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The AI Spending Debate: Bears See a $1 Trillion Gap, Bulls See a Backlog
Analysts split on whether hyperscaler capex will earn its keep, with 2027 spending seen above $1 trillion.
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