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Nexchip Semiconductor Corp raised $890 million in a Hong Kong IPO priced at the top of its range, trading at a 57% discount to its Shanghai-listed stock. The state-backed foundry, which makes mature-node chips for displa…
Desktop Commander MCP, a tool that gives AI agents structured control over a computer via API calls rather than vision-based interaction, has gained 6.5K GitHub stars with rapid growth. The tool enables file operations, …
Venice.ai raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, marking its first outside investment. The privacy-preserving AI platform serves 3.5 million registered users, processes…
Chinese AI models from Zhipu AI and DeepSeek are gaining developer share in the United States due to lower costs, with OpenRouter data showing Chinese model token consumption above 20% weekly share since February 2026 an…
An engineer implemented a zero-dependency MCP (Model Context Protocol) server in pure Python using only the standard library, avoiding the 47-package dependency tree of the official SDK. The implementation covers tools, …
A developer building an AI safety net argues that recent high-profile AI agent failures—including PocketOS deleting a production database in nine seconds and Replit's agent wiping a live database—are not evidence of stup…
Elon Musk reversed his criticism of Anthropic, now calling the company 'the leader in AI' after SpaceX signed a deal providing Anthropic with $1.25 billion per month in compute fees through May 2029. Musk previously accu…
An independent benchmark of on-device LLMs on iPhone A17 Pro found Apple's system model achieves ~149 tok/s with only 12MB peak app memory, while 4B-class open models like Qwen3 4B and Llama 3.2 3B trigger thermal thrott…
SK Hynix raised approximately $26.5 billion in its US share sale on Nasdaq, marking the second-largest stock listing globally. The offering was oversubscribed more than seven times, with proceeds earmarked for expanding …
Gradium, an AI startup spun out of Kyutai, raised a $100 million seed extension backed by Nvidia to accelerate development of real-time speech models and expand into the San Francisco Bay Area. The funding will support A…
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its custom AI chip, codenamed Iris, in September as part of a push to reach 14 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2027. The chip, built with Broadcom and TSMC, is central to Meta's strat…
Selvedge, a new open-source tool, provides long-term memory for AI-coded codebases by capturing the reasoning behind code changes made by AI agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. It stores the 'why' in a local SQ…
Anthropic reset Claude Code usage limits for all users on July 10 without explanation, following a week of outages across multiple services. The reset comes three days before a temporary 50% limit boost expires, raising …
Zhipu AI raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong placement, but the new shares represent only a 4.2% increase in total capital and most remain locked up, limiting the impact on free float. The Beijing-based AI company plans to …
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora called for AI token prices to drop by 80% within a year and 90% the following year, citing high costs as a barrier to enterprise adoption of agentic and large-context AI workflows. Aro…
IBM announced updates to its Bob agentic software development platform, including multi-agent capabilities, parallel tool calling, and specialized workflows for Java modernization, IBM i OS, and IBM Z mainframe. The plat…
A developer built Sparsi, a framework that shifts complex logic out of ReAct agent prompts into deterministic DAG-based macro-tools. In a benchmark on customer support ticket triage, Sparsi achieved 100% accuracy with 1.…
UST is integrating Anthropic's Claude AI into its engineering platforms to automate chip design validation, hardware testing, and fault detection, aiming to cut validation cycle times by 50-70%. The partnership includes …
Tata Consultancy Services reported flat dollar revenue and margin contraction in the June quarter, with AI revenue growing but remaining a small portion of total earnings. The company announced strategic AI investments i…
Singapore-based Datagrid has secured approval to build a NZ$3.5bn AI datacentre in Makarewa, New Zealand, sparking local concerns about electricity and water use, and noise pollution. Residents are demanding greater tran…