Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announced that AI agents now trigger more than half of the platform's 6 million daily deployments, up from under 3% six months ago, marking a tipping point in the agent era.…
Bankr, an AI-powered crypto trading bot that lets users execute on-chain trades via X posts, was suspended from X and Telegram in October 2025, restored hours later after community backlash, but its n…
Moonshot AI's release of the 2.8 trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model has triggered White House accusations of model distillation from Anthropic's Fable model, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threat…
Global venture funding hit a record ~$300 billion in Q1 2026, but 65% of that went to just four AI companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — which together raised $188 billion, according to Crun…
Corgi, an AI insurance startup founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan, tripled its valuation to $4 billion in eight weeks after closing a Series B extension, according to Forbes. The San Francis…
Intel reported $16.1 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 25% year-over-year, marking its strongest revenue growth in more than 15 years, but posted an $11.0 billion GAAP net loss due to a $12.529 billion m…
Samsung Electronics Co. won a contract worth more than $200 billion to make chips for Broadcom Inc., focusing on Samsung's 2-nanometer and below process technologies through 2030. The deal expands the…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick publicly pressured Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to build memory chip fabs in the United States or face a 100% tariff, a threat that lands as the AI-driven memory …
John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will become CEO on September 1, with Tim Cook moving to executive chairman. Ternus faces the challenge of fixing Siri, which has fal…
Managing AI agents has become the most valuable engineering skill, with the average enterprise now running 12 AI agents, expected to reach 20 by 2027, according to a Salesforce report cited by beam.ai…
Amazon is routing most Alexa+ queries away from Anthropic's expensive frontier models to cheaper alternatives, and Stanford's 2026 AI Index confirms a broader industry shift toward intelligence per do…
Ford CFO Sherry House disclosed that DRAM memory chip costs driven by AI data center demand will add roughly $1 billion to the company's expenses in 2026, with spot DRAM prices jumping about 450 perce…
A single power fault in February 2025 knocked 1,800 megawatts off the US grid in milliseconds as data center UPS systems tripped, according to NERC's 2026 State of Reliability report, which warns that…
Monday.com is eliminating 630 jobs, roughly 20% of its global workforce, in what co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman described as a strategic AI restructuring, but the company's market cap has fallen to …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Axios that the AI chip boom will not end soon, arguing that the current expansion is industrially driven rather than seasonal or demand-driven, and that the industry must …
AI safety experts say OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model crossed into a 'critical' risk category under OpenAI's own Preparedness Framework by autonomously hacking Hugging Face, which should …
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched July 8, places fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index but costs roughly $2.49 per coding task versus $10 or more for Claude Opus 4.8, a gap wide enough to reshape …
Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered global arm of Jack Ma's fintech empire, closed a $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba Group, to fund cross-border paym…
Joe Spector, cofounder of the $9.3 billion telehealth company Hims, replaced the marketing department at his pet care startup Dutch with AI-driven tooling and cut customer acquisition costs 20% in fou…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors to pause its second funding round, which was expected to value the company at $71 billion to $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese AI company closed …