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Funding rounds, founder moves, and the companies redrawing the tech map.

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Cursor crosses $500M ARR sixteen months after Series A
Anysphere's AI code editor is on track to be the fastest software company to a billion in annualized revenue, leapfrogging Wiz and OpenAI on the curve.

Harvey raises $600M Series E at $7B to expand into Big Four audit
The legal AI startup is moving beyond white-shoe law firms, signing pilots with Deloitte and PwC for audit-workpaper drafting.

Figure AI delivers first humanoid robots to BMW Spartanburg line
Twenty Figure 03 units are now performing sheet-metal insertion tasks alongside human operators on the X3 SUV assembly line, the first commercial deployment of its kind.

YC's summer batch is 71% AI agents, sparking saturation worry
Garry Tan defended the concentration on stage at Demo Day, but several limited partners told us privately they are pulling back from agent-first seed funds.

Vercel acquires v0 rival Bolt.new in all-stock deal
StackBlitz shareholders get roughly 4% of Vercel as the Next.js company consolidates the browser-based AI app-builder market.

Klarna files revised S-1 ahead of long-delayed NYSE debut
The Swedish BNPL giant disclosed a 27% YoY revenue jump and credits its in-house AI agent for cutting customer-service headcount by 40%.

Glean valued at $9B as enterprise search startup hits $200M ARR
The Sequoia-backed company more than doubled revenue in twelve months as Fortune 500 buyers consolidate around a single internal-knowledge agent vendor.

Sakana AI raises $200M Series B to scale its 'evolutionary' model factory
The Tokyo-based lab, founded by ex-Google Brain researchers, uses model merging to produce specialised Japanese-language LLMs in days, not months.

Groq closes $1.5B at a $7B valuation to expand LPU inference fleet
Saudi Arabia's PIF leads the round, with proceeds earmarked for a new 1.5M-LPU campus in Dammam serving the Middle East at sub-50ms latency.

Decagon's customer-support agent unseats Zendesk at Klarna and Notion
The two-year-old startup just crossed $80M ARR by selling a single product — an agent that resolves 65% of tier-1 tickets without human handoff.

Skild AI raises $500M to build a single foundation model for any robot
The Pittsburgh startup, spun out of CMU, claims its 'general intelligence' policy controls humanoids, quadrupeds, and industrial arms with no fine-tuning.

Wiz acquires Israeli runtime-security startup Gem for $400M
The deal, Wiz's largest since the failed Google talks, plugs a gap in its cloud-native application protection platform against incident-response rival Snyk.