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SambaNova, an AI chip startup, raised fresh funding at an $11 billion valuation, up from roughly $2 billion earlier this year, as investors race to back alternatives to Nvidia. The company builds chips and systems for ru…
Nvidia's stock has fallen to its lowest valuation since 2019, trading at 18.4 times expected earnings, as investors shift focus to other AI companies. The decline has reduced Nvidia's correlation with the Philadelphia Se…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 in June 2026, offering improved performance and lower pricing compared to the November 2025 Opus 4.5 model, with input costs dropping from $5.00 to $2.00 per million tokens. The author …
Scalekit ran 75 benchmark runs comparing CLI and MCP agents on identical GitHub tasks, finding CLI was 10 to 32x cheaper and 100% reliable, while MCP hit only 72% reliability. Perplexity's CTO reported that MCP tool desc…
Goldman Sachs warns that the wave of AI-fueled earnings surprises that boosted stocks last quarter will be hard to repeat, making a major rally from results alone unlikely. The bank's head of asset allocation research, C…
Forbes Councils Member Gaurav Chodwadia warns that enterprise AI agents are failing due to a 'hidden context tax'—the failure to track user session history as a separate context layer. Most teams overlook this, causing a…
Hugging Face Spaces users report that Docker Spaces on the free CPU-basic tier are stuck indefinitely in the APP_STARTING stage, with no hardware allocation occurring. The issue appears to be a scheduling or capacity sho…
Microsoft announced plans to replace OpenAI and Anthropic models with its in-house MAI models in Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to reduce costs and increase self-reliance. The shift, reported by Bloomberg, follows a 2025 …
Amazon is developing a secret project codenamed Moonraker to give Alexa agentic capabilities, allowing it to handle complex multistep tasks like booking rides and messaging friends. Internal documents reveal the initiati…
Chinese President Xi Jinping has prioritized artificial intelligence and semiconductor development as part of China's 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to build domestic alternatives to US chips. The plan, which covers 2026-20…
A developer built Phantom Protocol, a multi-agent autonomous outreach system, to solve personal consistency problems in client acquisition. The system uses Qwen3.7 via Alibaba Cloud's DashScope API, with agents communica…
Platform engineering teams often struggle to demonstrate business value, leading to budget freezes and financial crises. Thoughtworks specialist Punit Lad says the primary hurdle is a lack of business case and financial …
Small language models are outperforming larger counterparts in enterprise AI by being purpose-built for specific tasks, offering efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The article argues that the winning models will be those…
AI chip startup SambaNova raised $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $11 billion. The investment underscores the growing demand for specialized hardware to power artificial intelligence workloads.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a standard integration layer for AI systems, solving the problem of chaotic glue code by standardizing how AI hosts discover and use external capabilities. MCP does not rep…
Two of China's largest AI model platforms, Doubao and Qwen, tightened restrictions on custom agents last week, delisting or throttling third-party agents and narrowing creation permissions. The developer behind Mano-P, a…
Nvidia announced its RTX Spark ARM-based chip at Computex, positioning it as a new category for thin laptops and mini PCs rather than a replacement for x86 gaming desktops. The chip, made with MediaTek, features an integ…
China opened its first fully unmanned AI research laboratory in Shanghai, capable of conducting scientific research without human intervention. The facility, developed by the Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, has compl…
A new model estimates that a 10x reduction in R&D compute for an AGI company would slow AI progress by about 6x in the median case, with an 80% confidence interval of 3.5x to 8x. The model accounts for cuts to training, …
Big Tech stocks, led by the Magnificent Seven, have rebounded 8% since late June, while semiconductor stocks have fallen 12%, indicating a rotation out of crowded hardware trades rather than a broad growth unwind. Apple …