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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 18, 2026

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SoftBank says it has secured a $40 billion bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other banks, to fund new investments in OpenAI (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 27, 2026

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The war in Iran complicates Gulf countries’ plans to spend more than $300 billion on AI investments, endangering a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 9, 2026

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Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, has raised a $31.6 million Series B round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 6, 2026

Gyan Vardhan / Entrackr: Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, has raised a…

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Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million to $500 million each in the Indian AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 17, 2026

Economic times: Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million…

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global venture capital investments reached $512 billion in 2025, with AI accounting for more than 50%; Venture capital fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6 billion, about $100 billion less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 7, 2026

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Hyphen automated makelines get investments from Cava and Chipotle

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 30, 2025

In a difficult time for the restaurant industry, large chains like Chipotle And How are you are investing in automated…

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ServiceNow has spent more than $12 billion on acquisitions and investments in 2025 amid concerns about revenue growth, which is expected to fall below 20% in 2026 without acquisitions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 27, 2025

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Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 26, 2025

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Sources: ByteDance plans to spend 160 billion yen, or about $23 billion, on AI investments in 2026, up from 150 billion yen in 2025, and has budgeted about $12.07 billion for AI processors (Financial Times).

By Stacey D. WallsDecember 23, 2025

Financial Times: Sources: ByteDance has planned to spend 160 billion yen, or ~$23 billion, on AI investments in 2026, up…

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The Anthropic myth adds to concerns about increasing workload for open source maintainers, as many have already faced a ‘crazy’ number of bug reports (Chris Stokel-Walker/Bloomberg)

Salesforce announces Headless 360, an initiative that will allow AI agents to access Salesforce platform features through APIs, MCP tools or CLI commands (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)

Global DRAM supply is expected to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory will reach around 40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% currently (Nikkei Asia)

Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Chinese lidar maker Hesai, a key supplier of Nvidia’s ADAS, announces EXT lidar, calling it the first in the industry to integrate spatial and color sensing (Reuters)

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Autonomous vehicle startups raised a record $21.4 billion through 34 deals through April 15, compared to $5.9 billion raised through 99 investments globally in all of 2025 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

SoftBank says it has secured a $40 billion bridge loan maturing in 2027 from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and other banks, to fund new investments in OpenAI (Akash Sriram/Reuters)

The war in Iran complicates Gulf countries’ plans to spend more than $300 billion on AI investments, endangering a potential source of funding for tech companies (Miles Kruppa/The Information)

Rozana, which offers rural e-commerce and logistics services to 21,000 villages across India, has raised a $31.6 million Series B round led by Bertelsmann India Investments (Gyan Vardhan/Entrackr)

Sources: Leading venture capital firms operating in India are expected to commit to investments ranging from $300 million to $500 million each in the Indian AI ecosystem at the AI Impact Summit (The Economic Times)

global venture capital investments reached $512 billion in 2025, with AI accounting for more than 50%; Venture capital fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6 billion, about $100 billion less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)

Hyphen automated makelines get investments from Cava and Chipotle

ServiceNow has spent more than $12 billion on acquisitions and investments in 2025 amid concerns about revenue growth, which is expected to fall below 20% in 2026 without acquisitions (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)

Amazon, Microsoft and Google have pledged a total of $67.5 billion in Indian investments since October, 80% of those in December, as part of an AI spending spree in India (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

Sources: ByteDance plans to spend 160 billion yen, or about $23 billion, on AI investments in 2026, up from 150 billion yen in 2025, and has budgeted about $12.07 billion for AI processors (Financial Times).