Daily AI Grants Roundup – June 09, 2026

MRC funding update Executive Chair, Medical Research Council 5 February 2026 An update on MRC funding during UKRI’s transition, what’s changing, and the next steps for paused opportunities and reopening timelines.. On 1 February, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Chief…

With Harvey and Legora burning through eight-figure funding rounds, legal tools have proven to be one of the fastest-growing and most hotly contested verticals among AI startups.. But while those tools focus on private practice, some startups believe there’s still plenty of…

Europe’s fast-growing vibe-coding startup, Lovable, tells TechCrunch it has surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate.. Lovable last discussed its revenue in February, when the company said it crossed $400 million .. In August, 2024, Lovable said it could hit $1…

Here’s one metric for tracking SpaceX’s IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry’s perspective on long-term, capital-intensive space so much that a talented founder with no space experience can fund a space data center company.. Orbital , a new firm…

Posted: Julie Bort It’s not FAANG anymore.. With SpaceX about to break records with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break records with its pending IPO, and OpenAI racing to match or best its archrivals with its own potentially record-breaking IPO, the tech industry will…

For years, Apple has been accused of being one of the biggest stragglers in the AI arms race.. Doubters have argued that Apple’s lack of a clear AI strategy have cost it its edge, and Wall Street analysts have worried that the gap could start hurting iPhone sales.. Now the…

In recent days, founders and founders-turned-investors took to X to share horror stories about being mistreated by VCs.. Their complaints ranged from VCs falling asleep during pitch meetings to investors suggesting a founder fire a co-founder.. Brendan Foody, co-founder of…

Posted: Amanda Silberling As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says OpenAI announced on Monday that it confidentially filed for an IPO , marking what could become one of the defining public offerings of the decade.. And then…

The vibe of Apple’s 2026 WWDC event felt like a spouse proudly listing all the items on a honey-do-list they’d finally completed.. Rather than showcase something exciting and new, Apple launched the keynote detailing fixes to last year’s “Liquid Glass” design; an overhaul of…

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company announced Monday in a blog post.. The filing comes a little more than a week after its main rival, Anthropic, also filed to go public , ramping up the race between the two AI firms…..

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference on Monday started off with an apology of sorts.. Instead of jumping right into the headline news about a revamped AI-powered Siri , Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi spent the first stretch of the…

Apple is hoping to draw in newer developers with lower AI infrastructure costs, the company announced during its developer keynote at its Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday.. The tech giant said that developers with fewer than 2 million first-time App Store downloads…