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Rock Rose Bridge, a venture of Tulsa Innovation Labs, announced Austere Environmental, BiaTech, BigMachine AI, and Intellicess as recipients of its 2026 Rose Rock Bridge Showcase. Four startups, from a total of 85 applicants, were selected to receive a share of $400,000 in nondilutive funding and establish a presence in Tulsa to pilot and advance…

For those curious about building a startup in Minnesota and Ohio over California and Texas, Midwest Startups presented by M25 has released its annual Best of the Midwest Startup Ecosystem Rankings. The list includes 64 cities across the region, ranked on their respective startup activity, access to re

As AI makes coding dramatically faster, the next big challenge in software development is testing and validating all that code. Blacksmith has raised a new $45 million round to capitalize on that shift.

(Bloomberg) — Accel, a global venture capital firm with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, India, has raised $3.5 billion in new funds for early-stage investments across the world.

AI startups raised over $407 billion in VC funding in the first half of 2026—blowing past the $264 billion invested in the sector in all of 2025, according to PitchBook’s Q2 2026 AI Report. But only two companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, collected more than half of the H1 tally, about $217 billion combined.

-NdotLight builds data infrastructure that can be directly used for physical AI training simulations

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here.

With Guangdong province’s Shenzhen set to host the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in November, the city’s technology companies are stepping up their expansion across the Asia-Pacific region, seeking deeper cooperation in artificial intelligence, robotics, semiconductors and other emerging sectors.

Lumilens Inc., a provider of optical networking chips for artificial intelligence clusters,launchedtoday with $900 million in funding.

AI capital funding has dominated the venture capital landscape for the first half of the year, taking the lion’s share of deals. Q1 2026 VC deal volume surpassed an all-time high of $267.2 billion, with 88% attributed to AI and machine-learning companies. Into the second half of 2026, AI capital funneling has selectively scaled.