Metal, an AI-powered fundraising platform backed by a16z and Y Combinator, launches to help founders manage investor discovery, relationship mapping, and round tracking as a unified data problem. The …
Zhipu AI quietly raised the default concurrency limit on its GLM API, allowing developers to run more parallel requests without prior approval. The move addresses developer complaints about severe rat…
Most AI startups lack a defensible moat against foundation model companies like OpenAI, which can replicate thin wrappers and prompt engineering quickly. Defensible advantages come from proprietary da…
OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6 to all users on July 9 after the Trump administration cleared the model for public release, ending a monthlong standoff over frontier model safety. The flagship Sol, mid-tie…
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compi…
SambaNova is closing in on a funding round of up to $1 billion at a valuation near $10 billion, roughly five times its valuation from four months ago. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the talks, highlig…
Anthropic is leasing an entire 16-story office tower in Manhattan's Hudson Square, a 30-fold increase in space, while simultaneously restricting access to its Claude Fable 5 model due to insufficient …
China will debut the world's first AI agent phone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai from July 17-20, according to Shanghai official Tang Wenkan. Huawei will also showcase its…
Rémi Cadène, a former Tesla Optimus engineer, launched UMA's humanoid robot Northstar at the Machina Summit in Paris, targeting European factories first. The startup emerged from stealth with a $40 mi…
Defense tech startups have raised $12.3 billion in venture funding since the start of 2026, nearly double the amount from the same period last year, as investors shift from generic AI to military-focu…
DeepSeek chose to partner with Huawei and other Chinese chipmakers rather than building its own AI chips, a decision that signals a strategic shift in China's semiconductor landscape. The AI lab gave …
SK Hynix's stock in Seoul has fallen 17% this month ahead of its $28 billion Nasdaq debut, threatening the pricing of the offering. The volatility, triggered by Meta Platforms' cloud pivot and amplifi…
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. ex…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on July 6, making Illinois the first U.S. state to mandate annual independent third-party audits of fronti…
Sysdig's threat research team caught what appears to be the first ransomware attack run almost entirely by a large language model, named JADEPUFFER. The AI agent broke into a server, stole credentials…
SK Hynix is listing American depositary shares on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY, giving U.S. investors direct access to the dominant HBM chipmaker. The $28.1 billion offering, the largest-ever U.S. sto…
Syntiant Corp., an Irvine-based chipmaker specializing in low-power AI processors for earbuds and hearing aids, filed for an IPO on July 6 amid a Wall Street selloff of AI chip stocks. The company, ba…
Samsung Electronics posted a second-quarter operating profit of 89.4 trillion won ($58 billion), up 1,810% year-over-year, driven by surging AI memory demand that lifted DRAM and NAND prices. The reco…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is using Anthropic's Mythos tool to audit government code for vulnerabilities, despite a federal ban on Anthropic's AI. The tool has al…
Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models are back online after a U.S. government export ban was lifted, but the lawsuit filed by customer Legion LegalTech Corp over the ban continues. The case chall…