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2026-05-21 14:00 [Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

Hark Secures $700M Series A at $6B Valuation for Secretive AI Personal Assistant Platform

Hark, an AI lab founded by serial entrepreneur Brett Adcock, raised $700 million in Series A funding at a $6 billion valuation to build an agentic AI personal assistant with custom hardware. The company plans to release...

[Agentic AI] [Hardware] [Consumer AI] [Personal Assistant] [multi-modal models]

Risk: [+0.04 pp] [1 day sooner]

AGI: [+0.03 pp] [1 day sooner]

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2026-05-14 14:00 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Wirestock Raises $23M to Supply Multi-Modal Creative Data to AI Foundation Model Makers

Wirestock, a platform that originally helped photographers sell stock photos, has pivoted to become a data provider for AI labs, raising $23 million in Series A funding. The company now supplies images, videos, design as...

[Foundation Models] [Training Data] [data labeling] [multi-modal models] [creative AI]

Risk: —

AGI: [+0.02 pp]

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