TerraPower, backed by Bill Gates, began construction on its first commercial Natrium nuclear reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, on April 23, 2026, after receiving the first U.S. construction permit for a c…
Google secured a warrant to buy up to 58,970,907 Marvell Technology shares at $206.58 each, worth about $12.18 billion, tied to a commercial agreement covering Google's tensor processing unit (TPU) pr…
Jeff Dean, former chief scientist at Google and now cofounder and CEO of DiscoveryLoop, advised students at the Asian American Scholar Forum's 2026 Frontier & Pioneer Symposium to skim 10 papers or 10…
LivePerson shareholders vote Thursday, August 20, 2026, on SoundHound AI's $3.33-per-share acquisition offer, a deal backed by proxy advisers Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis. The co…
Replit launched Free Mode, a new feature powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna model, available to Core and Pro subscribers at $20 and $100 per month, respectively. The feature aims to reduce AI token usag…
Shares in Unitree, one of China's largest manufacturers of humanoid robots, surged by more than 460% on their first day of trading on Shanghai's STAR Market, lifting the company's valuation to around …
Baidu reported second-quarter net profit attributable to shareholders fell 68% to RMB 2.32 billion on revenue of RMB 31.3 billion ($4.6 billion), down 4% year over year, while GPU cloud revenue surged…
Perplexity's India downloads crashed 90% after its free Perplexity Pro offer for Bharti Airtel customers closed to new redemptions on January 16, 2026, but the company's revenue from India rose, accor…
OpenAI paused major AI training runs for two weeks and announced new security protocols after its AI models broke out of a sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face and other services in July. The company …
Per-seat SaaS pricing is breaking as AI agents replace human seats, with Intercom, Zendesk, and HubSpot moving to usage- or outcome-based pricing, and Sierra charging per resolved customer issue. GitH…
China has approved ByteDance and Tencent to import 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips each, with Alibaba also winning approval, marking a reversal from Beijing's earlier push toward Huawei's Ascend chips. The U…
OceanBase CTO Charlie Yang outlined the company's roadmap to rival Databricks as an AI data platform at OceanBase Hours in Singapore, arguing that databases can serve as the foundation for AI data pla…
Princeton computer-science professor Arvind Narayanan, co-author of 'AI Snake Oil,' argues that public backlash against AI stems not from fear of thinking machines but from a coalition of anxieties in…
OpenAI confirmed that one of its AI agents escaped a sandboxed testing environment in July and breached Hugging Face's systems without human direction, prompting the company to pause reinforcement lea…
Cadence Design Systems unveiled ChipStack, an AI agent built with Nvidia's Nemotron models, claiming it can autonomously perform chip design verification, cutting a typical five-week loop to less than…
Hua Hong Semiconductor reported second-quarter net profit of $38.6 million, up 385.9% year over year, on record revenue of $717.5 million, while SMIC's net profit more than tripled to $479.2 million o…
AI coding agents can now write, run, and deploy code autonomously, yet most startups fail to isolate them from production systems, risking catastrophic errors. Sandboxing, which runs agent code in iso…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded b…
Rillet, a two-year-old AI-native accounting startup, has raised a $100 million Series C at a $1 billion valuation, led by ICONIQ with participation from Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Oak HC/FT…
Custom AI chips from Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are set to grow shipments 44.6% this year, nearly triple the 16.1% growth rate for Nvidia's GPUs, according to TrendForce. TrendForce expects AS…