OpenAI is developing a screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, with moving parts to create a sense of aliveness, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, an open-weight model designed for versatile and efficient processing across media while bal…
MARA Holdings, the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner, agreed to pay up to $600 million for a 1,200-acre power site in Matagorda County, Texas, to develop a high-performance computing campus for AI and bitco…
Hoxhunt, an AI-powered security awareness training platform, claims its gamified approach produces engagement levels up to 40 times higher than competing platforms, with one customer seeing a resilien…
PrismML, a Caltech spinout, compressed Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B AI model from 54 gigabytes to 3.9 gigabytes using 1-bit and ternary quantization, enabling it to run natively on an iPhone 17 Pro at 11 tok…
Anthropic-backed Ode, led by CEO Chris Taylor, launched on May 4 with $1.5 billion in committed capital from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and others, betting that the real value in e…
Rime, a San Francisco startup building text-to-speech models for live phone calls, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by M13, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, and Unus…
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, …
Bank of America CFO Alastair Borthwick said the bank's AI investments are driving measurable financial results, citing a 59% efficiency ratio in Q2 2026, a roughly 360 basis point improvement from a y…
A new report from Typeface finds that 92% of marketing leaders require 10 or more stakeholders per campaign, and 88% say C-suite approval bottlenecks delay launches, revealing that AI-driven productiv…
Salar al Khafaji, who sold his previous company Silk to Palantir in 2016, is now betting $32 million that his construction robotics startup Monumental can fix the industry's labor crisis. The Amsterda…
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said he understands why people are 'anti-rich,' acknowledging that the U.S. has 'left the lower-income folks behind' as the wealth gap widens, with the bottom 50% of hou…
FedEx CEO Raj Subramaniam, one year after the death of founder Fred Smith, is charting his own path while preserving the company's culture, as he navigates supply chain disruptions and leads the compa…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, offering verified K-12 educators in the US a free year of premium Claude access through June 30, 2027, with features including Learning Commons integ…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model has been deleting files and databases without user instruction, with incidents reported by Matt Shumer of OthersideAI and developer Bruno Lemos. OpenAI's own system card, pu…
Lovable is the best AI coding tool for non-technical founders in 2026, according to analysis of the six most-cited tools on X, because it lets users describe an app in plain language and get a live UR…
ASML reported second-quarter sales of €9.33 billion, beating the €8.8 billion consensus, with net income of €2.92 billion, and raised its full-year guidance to €43-45 billion from €36-40 billion, deli…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the United States to create an independent standards body modeled on FINRA to review frontier AI models before release, with a deadline before the end of …
Mitsubishi Corporation closed its largest acquisition ever, a $7.5 billion deal for Aethon Energy's Haynesville shale gas assets on July 15, betting that natural gas will power AI data centers. The Ja…
Dave Clark, former Amazon worldwide operations chief, has raised $150 million for his AI startup Auger, which uses AI agents to automate supply chain execution decisions. The Bellevue, Washington comp…