BNB Chain's Agent Studio v2, launched around August 13, 2026, integrates Altana Network's Smart Agentic Wallet, enabling AI agents to spend funds via scoped session keys with spending limits and allow…
Fort Robotics, a Philadelphia-based physical AI safety firm, plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol FROB via a merger with Newbury Street II Acquisition Corp., valuing the combined compan…
Shengshu Technology, the Alibaba-backed generative AI startup behind the Vidu video generation tool, is considering a Hong Kong IPO targeting at least $500 million in proceeds. Founded in March 2023 w…
Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet, won a bankruptcy auction on August 17 to acquire approximately 600 million internal communications from Spirit Airlines for $10 million, about 1.7 cents per message. …
OpenAI and CodeAI, formerly Code.org, are partnering to advance AI literacy in schools, addressing a gap where 84% of students use AI tools but only 16% of high-school leaders say all students receive…
OpenAI announced on September 16, 2025, a suite of safety measures for ChatGPT users under 18, including automatic content restrictions, parental controls launched September 29, 2025, and an AI-powere…
Integral AI, a robotics AI startup founded by former Google researchers Jad Tarifi and Nima Asgharbeygi, has shut down after raising only $4.7M to $5.5M in seed funding, highlighting a financing gap f…
Nvidia has partnered with Apollo, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs to mobilize over $500 billion for AI infrastructure projects, marking a shift from hardware-centric advantages to financial leverage. The…
Reach Capital closed its fifth fund at $265 million, oversubscribed and potentially reaching $275 million, marking a 23% increase from its previous $215 million fund in April 2023. The venture firm, f…
Anthropic, an AI research company, is on track to achieve annualized revenue exceeding $65 billion, a more-than-sevenfold increase from the end of the previous year, according to Bloomberg. The growth…
Anthropic, the AI company led by CEO Dario Amodei, is considering a potential trillion-dollar IPO by 2026, according to The Wall Street Journal, with its valuation surging from $380 billion to $965 bi…
Pony AI's robotaxi revenue hit a quarterly record of $12.1 million in Q2 2026, a 691.2% year-over-year increase, now accounting for 33% of total revenue. Total revenue rose 68.8% to $36.2 million, dri…
The White House is rebuilding its biodefense architecture after staffing cuts left the unit depleted, driven by concerns that AI could lower the barrier to bioweapons development. On May 5, 2025, Exec…
Rising Treasury yields are threatening the sustainability of Asia's AI-driven stock rally, according to a report from the OECD. The higher yields may reduce the appeal of non-yielding assets such as g…
Chinese AI platforms from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and Alibaba are undercutting US rivals with API prices as low as $0.14 per million input tokens versus over $5 for Claude Opus, a 35x difference, promp…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) eliminated Motif Technologies from its sovereign AI competition, 'Dokpamo', after an evaluation round from August 8 to 11, leaving LG AI Research, SK T…
Anthropic PBC is finalizing a $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart, according to the Jerusalem Post, a deal that would create at least two new billionaires among Decart's founders. Foun…
Reddit is testing a feature that converts text posts into AI-narrated short videos and audio segments, using AI-generated voices to narrate original posts and selected comments. The experiment, announ…
Round Hill Music, an independent publisher managing a catalog worth $1.1 billion, filed copyright infringement lawsuits on August 17 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California ag…
Vice President JD Vance told the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas on May 28 that the US government should lean into Bitcoin as a strategic asset against China, building on President Trump's March …