Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver
Uber’s first European AV rides go live in Zagreb, with a safety driver

Uber has begun offering autonomous rides in Europe for the first time, in the Croatian capital, Zagreb. From Wednesday, riders there can book a self-driving car through the Uber app, the company said. The service is run with the Chinese firm Pony.ai an…

Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more
Stripe seals its OpenRouter deal for a reported $7.5bn or more

Stripe has agreed to buy OpenRouter, the startup whose software helps companies route their spending across hundreds of AI models. The payments firm confirmed the deal on Wednesday, making official an acquisition the press first reported earlier this m…

Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge
Rivian spinout Also raises $150m, and the e-bike is just the wedge

Also, the micromobility startup that spun out of Rivian last year, has raised $150 million in a Series D round. The round values it above $1 billion. The company told Fortune the money will go towards its real ambition, which is not e-bikes but small a…

Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February
Temporal is in talks to raise $500mn at a $12bn valuation, double February

Temporal Technologies is in talks to raise around $500 million, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. The round would value the software startup at $12 billion or more before the new money, the news agency said. It cited people familiar with the talks. The ro…

Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger
Rillet raises $100mn at a $1bn valuation to put AI agents inside the general ledger

Rillet, a startup that rebuilds corporate accounting around AI, has raised $100mn at a $1bn valuation, making it the latest AI unicorn. ICONIQ led the Series C, the company told Fortune in an exclusive. Nick Lichtenberg reported the deal. It is Rillet’…

Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup
Waymo pioneer Sebastian Thrun is building a stealth robotics startup

Sebastian Thrun, one of the pioneers of self-driving cars, is building a new robotics startup called Dulo. The company is still in stealth, and Thrun revealed little about it, Business Insider reported. Rya Jetha wrote that he named the venture at the …

Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed
Velaura raises $110mn to sell AI chips that cut the power bill, not the clock speed

A chip startup that promises to cut the power AI uses has raised $110mn and crossed a $1bn valuation. Velaura AI, based in Santa Clara, announced the Series A round on Tuesday. The company said in a statement that it builds ultra-low-power silicon and …

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation
EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation

EliseAI is in talks to raise $300mn at a $3.7bn valuation, according to Business Insider. Katie Roof reported the round on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with it. Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners are in talks to lead it. The details …

Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents
Space raises $2.4M to abolish the hard drive with an AI-native filesystem for humans and agents

Every few years, someone promises to abolish the hard drive. The latest is Space, a San Francisco startup coming out of stealth with $2.4m in pre-seed funding and an unusually literal pitch: a distributed filesystem that lets people and AI agents work …

Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished
Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own…