AI agent memory has become a crowded corner of AI infrastructure funding in 2025 and 2026, with startups like Letta, Mem0, and Zep building persistent memory systems on vector databases and retrieval …
AI browser agents such as Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Operator are increasingly performing tasks like shopping and booking on behalf of users, prompting startups to reconsider building websites as…
HexStellar founder Brayon Pieske reports a 51.9% reduction in GPU inference energy use, from 506.7 to 243.8 joules per completed request, without altering the model, precision, or memory usage. The co…
Foxconn's net profit rose 35% to NT$59.97 billion in the June quarter, beating forecasts, as AI server demand kept factories busy. Revenue climbed to NT$2.526 trillion, with cloud and networking produ…
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour predicts compute will become a $10 trillion industry by 2030, with its futures market potentially reaching $100-$150 trillion, and is racing to build a derivatives market for …
Former Google project manager Tucker Bryant built ChatTJB, a chatbot that mimics AI assistants but is powered by humans—Bryant and over 10,000 volunteers—with no LLM or algorithm. Since its April laun…
The George Washington University sold its 120-acre Virginia Science and Technology Campus in Ashburn, Va., to Amazon Data Services for $427 million, a deal that highlights how universities are convert…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reported on July 30 that a China-based operator using aliases knaithe and KnYuan wired DeepSeek into the open-source Hermes Agent framework to automate reconnaissance and e…
Shareholders of Upstart Holdings, Inc. filed a securities class action lawsuit on April 7, 2026, alleging the company misled investors about the performance of its Model 22 AI lending model, which the…
Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, did not shut down on August 3, 2026, despite rumors; its status page lists its API as operational with no reported outages for May, June, or July. The comp…
CoreWeave's second-quarter revenue more than doubled to $2.58 billion, beating analyst estimates, as CEO Michael Intrator said near-term capacity is 'effectively sold out' and the company's revenue ba…
Hetzner launched a free Experiments Inference API in July 2026, offering developers an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight models like Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, with no billing, no SLA, and no …
A security researcher used AI models to build a working zero-click exploit for a critical Zoom vulnerability in under 24 hours, and Zoom confirmed the flaw could let any meeting participant silently t…
OpenAI employees can bypass bureaucracy by emailing friction@openai.com, a system that escalates internal bottlenecks directly to CEO Sam Altman or President Greg Brockman, according to Fortune. The p…
CoreWeave reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 113% from $1.21 billion a year earlier, beating Wall Street expectations of about $2.55 billion. The company's revenue backlog rose …
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief financial officer and chief operating officer, told staff on August 11, 2026, that he is leaving the company after eight years to "start something new," according …
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in text generated by Claude models released on or after August 2, aligning with EU AI Act transparency rules that took effect that day. The watermark is desig…
SpaceXAI and Cursor launched Grok 4.5 on July 16, a frontier model for coding and agentic tasks, available across Cursor's desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and SDK at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per mil…
OpenAI Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap announced on Tuesday he is leaving the ChatGPT maker to 'start something new,' becoming the latest in a string of executive departures at the company. Ligh…
RUM Group reported second-quarter revenue of $40.4 million, up 61% year over year, with Northern Data contributing $10.1 million since the June 17 acquisition, as the company pivots to AI infrastructu…