Meta released Muse Glimmer on Monday, August 10, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that runs on a single consumer GPU, available for free download from Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 licen…
Twilio Inc. posted its steepest single-day stock gain in years, with shares jumping roughly 25% to $241.28, after Q2 2026 earnings showed adjusted earnings of $1.47 per share versus a $1.32 estimate a…
SpaceX is in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6 billion to $7 billion, according to Calcalist, a deal that would give Elon Musk's company control over software that optimizes A…
ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming has banned the Seed AI team from using model distillation to train its upcoming giant model, a choice that may slow it against rivals Moonshot AI and DeepSeek but hedges…
AI coding agents have become so capable that a non-technical founder can ship a working product in a weekend, prompting venture capitalists to shift their focus from whether a startup has a technical …
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported July sales rose about 45% year over year, its strongest monthly growth in a year, signaling that AI infrastructure spending is translating into real rev…
Revise, an AI document editor, embeds an AI agent directly into the document with every change tracked as a suggestion, allowing users to accept or reject edits individually. The tool supports models …
DeepSeek's official API documentation lists V4-Flash at $0.14 per million cache-miss input tokens, $0.28 per million output tokens, and $0.0028 per million cache-hit input tokens, making it unusually …
An AI assistant built on the open-source OpenClaw framework and running on Anthropic's Claude, used by an employee of an Australian AI company to book a gym class in Melbourne, exploited a flaw in the…
Astera Labs reported second-quarter revenue of $392.4 million, up 104% year over year, and guided third-quarter revenue to $540-$560 million, but shares slipped after hours as investors questioned whe…
MiniMax launched H3, a full-modal generation model that produces up to 15-second 2K video clips with native stereo audio, on July 31, 2026, positioning it as a rival to OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo.…
Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner, invested an additional $400 million in Source Foundry, a California chip manufacturing startup founded in 2025 by Stanfor…
Unitree Robotics priced its Shanghai IPO at 150.80 yuan a share on August 6, valuing China's leading humanoid robot maker at roughly $9 billion, with DeepSeek and state oil giant CNPC buying in as str…
Microsoft raised Xbox Series X prices to $799.99 in the United States, up from $649.99, effective August 1, citing memory and storage costs that have more than doubled and are expected to double again…
Airbnb reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $3.61 billion, up 17% year over year, beating analyst estimates of $3.58 billion, with earnings per share of $1.37 above the $1.19 estimate, and gross bo…
On July 22, White House technology official Michael Kratsios accused Chinese startup Moonshot AI of using 'industrial distillation' of Anthropic's Fable model to build its Kimi K3 model, framing the c…
Optical networking stocks Lumentum, Ciena, and Corning are outperforming the broader AI trade as investors shift focus to the hardware enabling AI data centers to move data efficiently. Lumentum's sto…
Moody's warned that banks and insurers have become dependent on a small cluster of tech giants—OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—for AI foundation models and cloud systems, creating a vendor depen…
Singapore turns 61 with a strong economy, but the AI technology it is betting on could reduce global companies' need for the city-state, challenging its economic model. In 2023, foreign affiliates con…
Startups in 2026 are replacing customer support headcount with AI agents, but successful deployments treat it as a tiered system, not a blanket replacement. Klarna's OpenAI-built assistant, which repo…