CoreWeave is exploring financial derivatives to hedge against a potential drop in memory chip prices, which have roughly doubled this year. The AI cloud company has locked in supply through long-term …
Etched exited stealth on June 30, 2026, revealing a working AI inference chip built on TSMC's N4P process that already runs models like DeepSeek and Llama. The San Jose startup has raised $800 million…
AI hardware startup Etched unveiled its Sohu chip and rack-scale inference system on June 30, designed specifically for transformer-based large language model inference. The company claims over $1 bil…
AI chip startup Etched emerged from stealth with $800 million in funding and $1 billion in forward sales contracts, claiming its Sohu ASIC can replace up to 160 Nvidia H100 GPUs for transformer infere…
Etched, a Cupertino-based chip startup founded by Harvard dropouts, emerged from stealth with a working transformer-specialized chip called Sohu, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed cus…
AI chip startup Etched announced it has booked $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million to date, including a $500 million round at a $5 billion valuation, as it emerges from stealth with …
Grant Sanderson, creator of 3Blue1Brown, discussed the rapid progress of AI in mathematics and its implications for other fields in a podcast interview. He explored whether AI discoveries constitute A…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip th…
AI chip startup Etched disclosed that quantitative trading firm Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm are among its backers, signaling confidence in its transformer-specific chip. The company, wh…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is doubling its headcount across departments, including a new Harness team for agent products, as it shifts from a research-focused operation to a product company. The expansio…
Freeport Markets, founded in 2025, launched an AI-powered trading platform that converts social and financial media into real-time market signals for crypto, perpetual futures, equities, and pre-IPO s…
A research project comparing three generations of quantitative trading strategies—1970s rule-based systems, classical machine learning, and Transformer-based deep learning—on Apple stock data from 201…
Google DeepMind distinguished engineer Vladimir Feinberg advised aspiring AI researchers to "work like a dog" to land jobs at top labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, emphasizing intent, …
Jane Street, a quantitative trading firm, now holds a $20 billion private company portfolio, including a stake in AI company Anthropic. The firm reported $39.6 billion in trading revenue for 2025, sur…
Osmaura, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by MIT alumni Kali Abeje and Jity Woldemichael, launched an AI engine that provides law firm partners with rainmaker-level business development supp…
Jane Street, a secretive Wall Street trading firm, has emerged as a major player in artificial intelligence, leveraging AI to gain a competitive edge in financial markets. The firm's aggressive adopti…
A researcher at a frontier AI lab advises aspiring candidates to pursue rigorous mathematics and programming coursework, work intensely, and focus on high-value problems to compete for jobs at top lab…
Andera, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to automate internal audit using AI. The platform uses large language models …
Robert Erez, a principal engineer at Octopus Deploy, discussed CI/CD best practices on The Pragmatic Engineer podcast, advocating for rolling forward instead of rolling back, warning that GitOps is no…
Hudson River Trading is aggressively consuming AI tokens as it deploys the technology for market making, facing bottlenecks in compute and memory costs that may drive the firm to develop its own chips…