Daily AI Grants Roundup – July 23, 2026

Arrakis raised $38M in seed and Series A funding to deploy AI agents into industrial operations. Blossom Capital led the round with Accel participating.

Etched, the AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, co-founder and COO Robert Wachen tells TechCrunch.. The round was led by Sequoia, with Andreessen Horowitz, SK Hynix, Jane…

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz.. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment.. Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, and others participated in the round.. Perhaps most notably, Uber…

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025.. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of…

Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the moon.. Lunar Outpost , a startup building robotics for space infrastructure, announced on Thursday that its next moon rover will use Jetson chips to control its lidar system.. When it does, it is…

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online connection: social networking with no algorithms, no ads, and no public content…..

Posted: Ram Iyer Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects.. The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%,…

Meta’s newest advertisement begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as they read countless panicked headlines about how AI is going to take our jobs, isolate us, and spark a global crisis.. “Some people will have you believe AI is going to…

Google is about to add another name to its long list of products with more than a billion users, a list that already includes Search, Gmail, Drive, Android, YouTube, and Chrome.. The company said during its Q2 2026 call that the AI assistant Gemini now has over 950 million…

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using chips that aren’t cleared for export to China.. “Large-scale, covert…

enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management and HR operations, is betting on an Indian banking software specialist to deepen its push into global financial services.. The company has invested $40 million in BusinessNext , valuing the…

On Wednesday, IBM officially reported earnings and the news was as bad as everyone knew it would be.. While the 115-year-old company still generates boatloads of cash — $17.2 billion in revenue, $9.9 billion in gross profit, nearly 58% margins, and $2.2 billion in net…