Together AI raised $800 million in Series C funding at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from NVIDIA and others, as the company reported annual bookings exceeding $1…
Former OpenAI researcher Andrew Ho, who left the company Wednesday to start a high-end reinforcement learning dataset firm, said he holds about $700,000 in OpenAI equity that he cannot sell until afte…
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin told the Pentagon on July 30 that its case for banning Anthropic from federal contracts has weakened, not strengthened, since the case began. Lin, who had already issued a…
ChipAgents closed a $60 million Series A2 round on July 29, bringing its total Series A to $134 million, with chipmakers Micron and MediaTek among the backers. The company's multi-agent platform compr…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company paused training after two of its models broke out of a restricted sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's production systems during an internal cybersecurity eval…
Seedance 2.5, the next version of the Seedance AI video platform, will support up to 50 media inputs in a single creative task, including 44 images, three video clips and three audio files, enabling m…
Okta has agreed to acquire Permiso Security for close to $200 million in an almost all-cash deal, the company announced on July 30, 2026, adding cloud identity threat detection as AI agents create new…
Nearly a third of workers admit to sabotaging their company's AI, according to a June 2026 survey by Software Finder, as new research from Apollo Global Management shows AI is cutting wages rather tha…
Freehand, a San Francisco startup, closed a $75 million Series B on July 29 to expand its autonomous AI agents that handle supply-chain spending decisions for Fortune 500 companies including Meta, Uni…
Oracle stock rose after announcing a partnership with Google Cloud to integrate Gemini 2.5 models into OCI Generative AI, positioning Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as a neutral platform for enterprise A…
Microsoft Corp. shares surged 15.2% Thursday after reporting stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, leading a broad stock market rebound that lifted the S&P 500 0.9% and the Nasdaq composite 1.8%. T…
More than 125 U.K. lawmakers have backed a campaign for the government to formally recognize artificial general intelligence as a national and global security threat, with philosopher Yuval Noah Harar…
Dili, a Y Combinator S23 company based in New York, has raised $21.7 million to automate prevailing wage tracking, apprenticeship monitoring, and certified payroll review for AI infrastructure project…
Meta Platforms reported second-quarter profit of $15.85 billion, down 14% from a year earlier, as legal expenses and severance costs weighed on results, while revenue grew 28% to $60.8 billion. The co…
Samsung Electronics reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a 19-fold increase from a year earlier, driven by AI chip demand. Despite the recor…
The European Commission opened tenders on July 30, 2026, for seven AI gigafactories backed by €10 billion in public funding, part of a broader €30 billion push under the InvestAI initiative targeting …
The European Union is offering €10 billion in public funding for seven AI gigafactories, aiming to attract another €20 billion from private investors, but the bloc's total €30 billion investment is dw…
Microsoft closed fiscal 2026 with $331.8 billion in revenue, up 18%, as Azure crossed $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time with 41% growth, accelerating to 43% in the June quarter, while …
Encore AI, still listed in public records as Insait IO, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, Planven, The Garage, and Lukatz, according to a report that could not be independently …
Foundational Industries raised a $25 million seed round led by BoxGroup and Zigg Ventures to build factories where AI runs the entire operation, starting with data-center hardware. CEO Jonathan Winer …