Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, replacing its Pay Per Crawl model with a Pay Per Use system that charges AI companies only when their content …
Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to a task force that will help the Fed measure AI's impact on productivity and jobs, giving Silicon Valley direct infl…
Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity …
Mercor, an AI recruiting and training-data unicorn valued at $10 billion, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulated office software for AI agents, on July 9. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody had persona…
Meta opened Muse Spark 1.1 to outside developers via a paid API on Thursday, charging $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, while internally restricting its own engineers…
China is allowing select AI companies including Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to buy Nvidia's H200 chips after a year-long ban, as a stopgap to ease training bottlenecks while domestic chipmakers l…
Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, an…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-source AI infrastructure company reported nearly 8.9 million monthly develo…
Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024 as an open standard that lets AI models connect to external tools and data without custom integrations. By early 2025, OpenAI and G…
Salesforce is promoting Anthropic's Claude Tag inside Slack, a product that competes with its own Slackbot and Agentforce, because Salesforce's equity stake in Anthropic is worth roughly $5 billion, f…
Bank of America extended a $520 million credit line to OpenAI in recent weeks, marking its first loan to the company after months of refusal. The move signals the bank's interest in securing an adviso…
Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund manager, is aggressively integrating large language models into its trading operations, including a partnership with Anthropic to deploy Claude across …
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is raising $4.3 billion in its Shanghai STAR Market IPO, the largest A-share listing in China this year, driven by surging AI memory demand that boosted its first-q…
Zhipu, the Beijing-based AI company behind the GLM large language models, raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong share placement on July 8, 2026, at a 13% discount to its previous close, just six months aft…
Singapore virtual telcos Circles.Life and giga! are bundling unlimited access to premium AI chatbots into mobile plans starting at $8 and $13.90 per month, undercutting standalone AI subscriptions lik…
China's National Vulnerability Database ordered developers to remove Anthropic's Claude Code tool, citing a hidden tracking mechanism that sends user data to remote servers. Anthropic confirmed the co…
Bank of America reversed its earlier decision and extended OpenAI a $520 million credit line, its first loan to the company, weeks before OpenAI is expected to pursue a US listing. The reversal reflec…
XAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 9, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens to undercut Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model, built on a 1.5 trillion parameter mixtur…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in Series A funding at a $1 billion valuation to provide enterprises with a full-stack platform for training and deploying their own AI agents, rather than renting …
China will allow Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase Nvidia's H200 chips for AI model training, but total approvals are capped at fewer than 200,000 units, less than half of what the companie…