SiMa.ai, a startup building AI chips and software for robots, drones, cameras, and other edge devices, has raised $150 million in a Series C round at a $1.45 billion valuation. This round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with additional contributions from Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, and StepStone Group. […]

An AI demo can look brilliant in five minutes. Then customers start using the product. They push it into workflows you didn’t anticipate, expect it to work reliably, and quickly find out whether it solves a big enough problem to stick – or becomes another AI experiment they tried and abandoned. At Disrupt 2026, three […]

When Tarini Padmanabhuni’s grandfather got a call, he thought he was speaking with his brother. The voice on the other end claimed that his brother had been kidnapped and demanded a ransom for his release. The surprising detail? Her grandfather paid, completely unaware that his brother was safe and sound elsewhere. That voice was a […]

Instinct, an AI assistant startup, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round, bringing its valuation to $10 billion – just a month after an earlier fundraising round valued the company at $2.5 billion. The funding comes from notable investors like Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Coatue. Instinct launched its invite-only service in August […]

OpenAI’s AI model has cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in just 88 hours, a feat that has ignited passionate discussions among mathematicians and AI experts. This problem, recognized by the Clay Mathematics Institute as one of the seven unsolved Millennium Prize Problems, carries a $1 million reward for its solution. Formulated by Claude Navier and George […]