Ford CFO Sherry House disclosed that DRAM memory chip costs driven by AI data center demand will add roughly $1 billion to the company's expenses in 2026, with spot DRAM prices jumping about 450 perce…
A single power fault in February 2025 knocked 1,800 megawatts off the US grid in milliseconds as data center UPS systems tripped, according to NERC's 2026 State of Reliability report, which warns that…
Monday.com is eliminating 630 jobs, roughly 20% of its global workforce, in what co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman described as a strategic AI restructuring, but the company's market cap has fallen to …
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched July 8, places fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index but costs roughly $2.49 per coding task versus $10 or more for Claude Opus 4.8, a gap wide enough to reshape …
Ant International, the Singapore-headquartered global arm of Jack Ma's fintech empire, closed a $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026, backed by Ant Group and Alibaba Group, to fund cross-border paym…
Joe Spector, cofounder of the $9.3 billion telehealth company Hims, replaced the marketing department at his pet care startup Dutch with AI-driven tooling and cut customer acquisition costs 20% in fou…
DeepSeek has told prospective investors to pause its second funding round, which was expected to value the company at $71 billion to $74 billion, according to Bloomberg. The Chinese AI company closed …
SPAN, in partnership with Nvidia and PulteGroup, will mount 16-GPU compute nodes on suburban homes starting Q3 2026, offering hosts $150-a-month utility and internet coverage, as AI's power demand dri…
AI tools such as Cursor, Lovable, and Replit Agent have slashed MVP build costs from $40,000–$60,000 in agency fees to under $10,000 in tooling and compute costs, but most founders still burn their se…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health for all US users on July 23, 2026, allowing users to connect Apple Health data and hospital records directly to the AI chatbot, but those records lose HIPAA protections …
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing, which publicly pledged its planned 330-megawatt AI complex in California's Imperial Valley would not use Colorado River water, is now suing the Imperial Irrigat…
Nearly 200 venture-backed startups, organized by the Little Tech Association, sent letters to President Trump and other officials on July 22 urging the U.S. government not to restrict access to Chines…
Robert C. Martin, author of Clean Code, announced on X that he no longer reads AI-generated code, relying instead on a framework of constraints including unit tests, Gherkin acceptance tests, mutation…
Samsung Electronics and Broadcom signed a $200 billion memorandum of understanding on July 24 in San Francisco covering HBM4 memory supply and 2nm foundry services through 2030, the largest bilateral …
Etched, a chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation on July 23, led by Sequoia, to produce its Sohu ASIC that hardwires transformer mo…
Design startup Paper closed a $34 million Series A on July 23, led by Accel and ICONIQ, to build a platform where HTML and CSS are the native design language, directly challenging Figma's proprietary …
Alphabet posted a record $119.8 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, up 24% year-over-year, but its stock fell 7% and erased $255.1 billion in market cap after the company raised its full-year 2026 capital exp…
Nvidia and SK Group announced a $500 billion-plus strategic partnership on July 24-25, 2026, covering a 2-gigawatt AI factory in South Korea and a long-term memory co-development pact with SK Hynix th…
Moody's issued a sector-wide credit warning on July 24, projecting that combined AI capital spending by six tech giants—Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Oracle, and CoreWeave—will reach $785 billion…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in June 2026 recommended eliminating the state's sales tax exemption for data centers, a policy that had attracted billions in AI infrastructure investment, citing a projected $…