Groq raised $650 million in a round led by Disruptive and Infinitum to scale its AI inference cloud, following a December 2025 deal in which Nvidia licensed Groq's technology for about $20 billion and…
BHP's copper business generated $18.19 billion in underlying EBITDA for fiscal 2025, surpassing iron ore's $14.53 billion, as copper prices near record highs driven by AI data center demand. Copper co…
Boards are now pressing startups on AI vendor concentration risk, asking founders to prove their business isn't dependent on a single model provider. OpenAI's August 2025 GPT-5 rollout briefly cut off…
Spotify began labeling AI-generated artist profiles with an 'AI Persona' badge on August 11, 2026, and will remove them from default recommendations in mid-September, after deleting over 75 million sp…
Cursor launched Origin, a code hosting platform with full pull request support and bidirectional GitHub sync, in beta to all paid users on August 17, the same day GitHub suffered a seven-and-a-half-ho…
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT cut Motif Technologies from its Sovereign AI Foundation Model project after the first-phase evaluation, advancing LG AI Research Institute, SK Telecom, and Up…
Groq raised $350 million on August 17 at a $3.5 billion valuation, led by Disruptive with Nvidia participating, to fund its pivot from AI chip maker to a neocloud that rents out GPU capacity. The comp…
Anthropic told investors its annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion in July, a sevenfold jump from $9 billion at the end of 2025, and reported preliminary second-quarter revenue of $11.5 billion,…
Sainsbury's has paused its Facewatch AI-assisted facial recognition system at its East Dulwich store after the technology wrongly flagged paying customer Matt Arnold, who was asked to leave on August …
Groq raised $650 million in June, led by Disruptive and Infinitum, to expand its AI inference cloud, following a $20 billion licensing deal with Nvidia that moved founder Jonathan Ross and other team …
AI companies are buying old printed books to train their models, with ISBNdb offering high-volume book acquisition services, because clean human text has become scarce. Epoch AI estimated in a 2024 pa…
The U.S. Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over board seats held by its partners at data companies Databricks and Fivetran, examining whether the roles viola…
Barracuda researchers demonstrated that Microsoft Copilot can turn a single stolen Microsoft 365 login into a $247,500 wire fraud chain, using the AI assistant to hide login alerts, map company struct…
Micron launched a $250 million fund to invest in AI startups that buy its memory chips, aiming to gain early insight into future demand for DRAM, HBM, and NAND. The move follows Micron Ventures' earli…
Robotera, a Beijing-based humanoid robotics company founded in August 2023 and incubated by Tsinghua University, is reportedly considering a Hong Kong IPO to raise up to $1 billion, according to sourc…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
OpenAI has dissolved its Preparedness safety team, the third such unit shut down in two years, as the company prepares for an IPO that could value it above $850 billion. The team, built to assess cata…
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single Microsoft Copilot experience, with mobile and web rollout starting in August and Windows and Mac users expected to…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…
Andrew Ng, in his newsletter The Batch, identified four AI skills that determine which teams successfully ship products: LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, and effective use of AI coding agents…