Startups
Taktile Raised $110 Million So Banks Can Let AI Touch the Scary Buttons
Taktile raised $110 million to automate high-stakes banking and insurance decisions. The pitch is serious, the controls matter, and the weirdness tax is real.
Boston Tech
Boston Dynamics Is Building a Bigger Waltham Robot Lair
Boston Dynamics will invest $100 million in a new Waltham robotics and AI center, adding 1,250 jobs by 2033 in a serious Massachusetts flex.
OpenAI
OpenAI and Broadcom Built Jalapeño to Make Inference Spicy and NVIDIA Nervous
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip aimed at lower-cost AI. The timing makes the NVIDIA moat story extra awkward.
Startups
Seltz Raised $12.5 Million to Build Search for Agents, Not Clicks
Seltz thinks AI agents need their own search engine, not another pile of blue links. Annoyingly enough, that may be one of the cleaner seed pitches of the month.
AI
Cyber AI Models Are Dangerous. The Marketing Is Also Armed.
Are GPT-5.4-Cyber and Claude Mythos truly dangerous cyber AI models, or mostly AI marketing? The uncomfortable answer is yes.
AI
AI Stocks Hit the Brakes. The GPU Mortgage Is Coming Due.
June 23's AI sell-off was a reminder that trillion-dollar ambition still has to survive debt markets, talent leaks, and the electric bill.
Startups
Cadence Raised $100 Million So Medicare Can Stop Treating Chronic Care Like a Calendar Invite
Cadence raised $100 million to turn chronic care into clinician-supervised AI logistics. The need is real, the economics are compelling, and the Medicare math is finally getting weird.
Consumer Tech
EcoFlow Turned Balcony Solar Into a Whole-Home Ambition Spiral
EcoFlow's June 22 launch starts with renter-friendly balcony solar and ends with an AI energy butler. It is gloriously excessive, oddly practical, and very European.
Startups
Nearfield Raised $380 Million to Inspect AI Chips Before Physics Files a Complaint
Nearfield's $380 million Series D says the AI boom needs better chip inspection, not just louder compute spending. Serious technology, serious customers, very expensive precision.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: NVIDIA’s AI Chip Empire Has Real Rivals Now. AMD, Broadcom, and Google Brought Picks and Shovels.
Can anyone challenge NVIDIA in AI chips? AMD, Broadcom, hyperscaler ASICs, and Huawei all have angles. None has the whole stack yet.
AI
9 Sleeper AI Companies That Could Become the Next OpenAI, Anthropic, or SpaceX
A SiliconSnark list of sleeper AI companies that could become category-defining giants, from robotics and medicine to materials, mining, and math.
Deep Dive
Deep Dive: Loop Writing Wants to Replace Prompting. AI Just Got a Manager.
Loop writing and loop engineering are the new AI-agent buzzwords. Here is what they mean, what reports are saying, and where the hype breaks.