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Africa’s startup funding hits $1.44B H1 2026 amid AI and mobility mega-deals

bne IntelliNews reports that African startups raised $1.44 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by large equity and debt financings including AI-focused AethexAI’s $3 million pre‑seed and Morocco’s Agenz $5 million AI‑powered property platform round. South Africa’s Zimi Charge also raised $2.6 million for EV charging as part of the region’s broader tech funding rebound.

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Global startup funding hits $510B as 70% of Q2 capital flows to AI

Crunchbase reports that global startup investment reached a record $510 billion in the first half of 2026, with more than 70% of Q2 funding going to AI-focused companies. Sixteen startups raised billion‑dollar rounds in Q2, including several frontier labs in the US, China and the UK.

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UN forms AI governance commission with Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft chiefs

The United Nations and ITU announced the AI for Good Global Commission, a new body co‑chaired by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame that brings Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and Microsoft President Brad Smith together with several heads of state. The commission will convene in Geneva alongside the AI for Good Global Summit from July 7–10, 2026 to shape global AI governance priorities.

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India’s MeitY to empanel 20 AI firms to modernize gov IT systems

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) will issue a Request for Empanelment to select up to 20 technology providers to modernize legacy government IT systems using AI, generative AI and agentic AI. The three‑year framework, with an optional two‑year extension, reserves half the slots for startups and MSMEs and is managed via MeitY‑NICSI.

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SmartCore lands China angel++ round for silicon photonics AI interconnect

Pandaily reports that Tsinghua‑affiliated startup SmartCore (Shenzhen Lingdong Xinguang Technology) has closed an 'angel++' round worth tens of millions of yuan to advance its silicon photonics chiplet for AI computing clusters. The round was led by Panlin Capital with participation from Tongfang Investment and Shenzhen Angel FOF‑backed Huize Tiancheng.

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SpaceX and Reflection AI sign $6.3B Nvidia Blackwell compute pact

Open Source For You reports that SpaceX has signed a compute-capacity lease with open-source startup Reflection AI worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029, granting the firm priority access to Nvidia GB300 'Blackwell Ultra' GPUs in SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data center. Reflection AI will pay around $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, with a three‑month trial and a 90‑day termination clause.

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Anthropic Fable 5 returns as US lifts 18-day export controls

Anthropic restored public access to its Claude Fable 5 AI model on July 1, 2026 after the U.S. Commerce Department lifted export controls imposed on June 12. The company deployed a new safety classifier that blocks the exploit identified by Amazon researchers, allowing Fable 5 to return across Claude.ai, Claude Platform, Claude Code and Claude Cowork.

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Oxmiq raises $35M Series A to license next‑gen AI GPU cores

Oxmiq Labs closed a $35 million Series A round to scale OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture that lets chipmakers build custom AI accelerators without multi‑year in‑house design efforts. The round was co‑led by Fundomo and Samsung Catalyst Fund, with MediaTek, Pegatron Venture Capital and others participating, and TechCrunch reports the company is now valued around $5 billion with $1 billion in signed contracts.

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