AI Infrastructure

Mercor, the $10 billion AI talent platform, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulation environments for AI agent training, in a deal announced July 9. The acquisition signals growing investment in AI training infra…

Search Engine Journal published Duane Forrester's July 2026 analysis arguing that AI answer engines reward recycled web content, creating a feedback loop that degrades data quality in training and retrieval pipelines. Th…

Enterprises are struggling with AI deployments that deliver incorrect answers, not due to data issues but because of flawed knowledge architecture, according to a Forbes article by Daniel Fallmann.

Forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) are emerging as a key role in the AI-driven job market, according to a Forbes analysis. The piece examines how technical expertise remains crucial as AI reshapes employment, with FDEs po…

SK Hynix priced its US listing at $149 per ADR, targeting approximately $28 billion in proceeds for its Nasdaq debut, in what could be one of the largest foreign offerings ever. The South Korean memory chip giant's offer…

Ollama, an open-source tool for running AI models locally, raised $65 million in a funding round led by Benchmark. The company aims to scale its developer platform to 9 million users, capitalizing on demand for local AI …

HubSpot built a centralized vector storage and search platform called VaaS (Vector as a Service) on top of Qdrant, now handling over 20 billion vectors across 140+ clusters. The infrastructure powers semantic search for …

SK Hynix is guiding investors to price its US listing at $149 per American depositary receipt, about 3.1% above its Korea close, according to people familiar with the matter. The offering could raise around $26.5 billion…

XAI, Meta, and Anthropic are expanding beyond their core AI businesses: xAI signed a $40-45 billion deal to provide Anthropic with cloud computing, Meta launched enterprise AI agents at $200 per month, and Anthropic is d…

Micron Technology stock surged nearly 200% in 2026, driven by soaring demand for AI memory chips and the launch of tokenized versions of its stock on Ethereum and Solana. UBS analyst Timothy Arcuri raised his price targe…

Meta plans to launch its own AI chip in September, designed for use in its data centers to power AI features on Facebook and Instagram. The chip, developed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC, aims to reduce costs and…

NetIntel, a platform of pay-per-call APIs for AI agents, analyzed 2,000 paid calls across 74 endpoints and found that five endpoints drove 75% of revenue, with a single text-to-structure endpoint accounting for 40% alone…

Databricks' internal benchmark of AI agents on its multi-million-line codebase reveals that token costs are misleading, agent harness design significantly impacts performance, and open-source models like GLM 5.2 rival pr…

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are set to begin trading portions of a $35 billion private credit deal financing AI chip infrastructure for Broadcom and Anthropic, with about $15 billion expected to be available …

SpaceX's AI division signed a $1.25 billion monthly compute lease with Anthropic, projected to add $15 billion in annual AI revenue ahead of SpaceX's June 2026 IPO. The deal nearly quintuples xAI's revenue from $3.2 bill…

SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5, OpenAI's GPT-5.5, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 were evaluated on single-prompt app-building tests, revealing a trade-off between speed and correctness. Grok 4.5 offers high throughput …

The Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Momentum Report tracks 116 open source agentic AI projects across five layers, finding 2.6x growth in unpatched CVEs over six months and organizational concentration risks in high-profil…

Attackers compromised an AWS EC2 instance acting as a LiteLLM proxy for Amazon Bedrock, deploying XMRig cryptomining malware and attempting to abuse cloud identities and AI services. Cybersecurity firm Darktrace warns th…

Ollama, an open source AI developer tool, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Venture, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The company, which helps developers run open-weight AI models on their PC…

An autonomous data pipeline at a company poisoned its own vector store by ingesting hallucinated outputs from a large language model, creating a feedback loop that degraded retrieval accuracy without triggering any monit…