Copper prices hit record highs above $6.85 a pound and nearly $14,500 a tonne on the London market, driven by weak mine output in Chile, policy risk in Congo, and an AI buildout that requires copper f…
Nvidia has invested roughly $53 billion across about 170 AI deals since 2020, including OpenAI, CoreWeave, and Nebius, and is now working with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin swap service, did not shut down on August 3, 2026, despite rumors; its status page lists its API as operational with no reported outages for May, June, or July. The comp…
Hetzner launched a free Experiments Inference API in July 2026, offering developers an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for open-weight models like Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, with no billing, no SLA, and no …
A security researcher used AI models to build a working zero-click exploit for a critical Zoom vulnerability in under 24 hours, and Zoom confirmed the flaw could let any meeting participant silently t…
CoreWeave reported second quarter 2026 revenue of $2.58 billion, up 113% from $1.21 billion a year earlier, beating Wall Street expectations of about $2.55 billion. The company's revenue backlog rose …
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief financial officer and chief operating officer, told staff on August 11, 2026, that he is leaving the company after eight years to "start something new," according …
SpaceXAI and Cursor launched Grok 4.5 on July 16, a frontier model for coding and agentic tasks, available across Cursor's desktop, web, iOS, CLI, and SDK at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per mil…
RUM Group reported second-quarter revenue of $40.4 million, up 61% year over year, with Northern Data contributing $10.1 million since the June 17 acquisition, as the company pivots to AI infrastructu…
Kymanox, a life science professional services firm, launched Kymanox Artificial Intelligence Solutions, a set of AI-enabled capabilities built to speed up FDA-facing documentation work while maintaini…