The New York City Council is investigating the advertising practices of Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase Global Inc., and Gemini Space Station Inc.'s Titan platform over concerns about false or deceptive …
Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, said he is more nervous after the fund posted a record first-half return of 1.4 trillion kroner ($150 billion), citing AI valuation…
OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the most valuable AI startups preparing for IPOs, have not disclosed greenhouse gas emissions or made net-zero pledges, a departure from the practices of Big Tech companie…
Lila Ibrahim, Google DeepMind's first-ever chief AI readiness officer, said her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants and her early work detasseling corn in Indiana for about $1 an hour instilled t…
Anthropic is adding invisible, machine-readable watermarks to text and C2PA metadata to images generated by Claude models launched in the EU after August 2, 2026, to comply with Article 50 of the EU A…
PitchBook's Q2 2026 U.S. VC Valuations report shows that 87.5% of U.S. venture dollars in the first half of 2026 went to AI megadeals, with AI companies seeing median valuation step-ups of 2.2x versus…
Coherent Corp. stock fell 12% to $333.83 on August 10, its sharpest one-day drop in months, as investors took profits ahead of its August 12 fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, with the stock trading near…
Qatar's Ooredoo Group is investing over $500 million in the Fibre in the Gulf (FIG) subsea cable system, scheduled for completion in late 2027, which will be the largest ever built in the GCC, spannin…
Tencent Holdings reported second-quarter revenue of 204.8 billion yuan, up 11% year-over-year, but net profit of 56.02 billion yuan missed analyst estimates of 58.51 billion yuan as capital expenditur…
GE Vernova, the energy company founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, has seen its stock surge more than 600% since becoming an independent public company in April 2024, driven by CEO Scott Strazik's strat…
Leon Liao founded Checkie-AI, an AI reality check tool that analyzes contracts and dating profiles for inconsistencies, after two unrelated incidents on the same day prompted him to build a prototype.…
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…