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SambaNova announced a $1 billion Series F first close on July 8, 2026, at an $11 billion post-money valuation, led by General Atlantic with participation from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price, and Capital Group. The AI-i…
A teardown of Apple's 2012 iPhone charger reveals a compact, high-quality switching power supply design using an STMicrosystems L6565 controller IC and flyback transformer, justifying its premium price through robust eng…
SambaNova completed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, and signed JPMorganChase as a customer for its AI inference systems. The company plans to use the funds to scale its bus…
MEMS-based switching technology offers a step change over traditional electromechanical and solid-state relays, combining near-zero resistance with fast switching and durability. These tiny devices reduce power consumpti…
A company accidentally spent $500 million on AI tokens in a single month due to a lack of employee usage limits, while Uber and ServiceNow burned through their annual AI budgets in months. Major providers like Anthropic …
OpenAI will release its most advanced AI model, GPT-5.6, globally on Thursday after a limited preview, following the lifting of restrictions by the Trump administration. The launch comes after rival Anthropic clashed wit…
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly pursue the manufacturing AI market, aiming to offer sovereign AI solutions to manufacturers in Europe and Asia. The partnership leverages their sha…
CJ Olive Young, Korea's largest health and beauty retail chain, introduced AI-powered kiosks in flagship stores to assist foreign shoppers with real-time conversations in eight languages, product recommendations, and nav…
Taihan Cable & Solution won a 45 billion won ($29.8 million) turnkey contract from Transgrid to build power grid infrastructure for an AI data center in Australia, marking its expansion into the global data center power …
CJ Olive Young and ESTsoft launched an AI Shopping Assistant kiosk for foreign shoppers on July 8, 2026, at three Seoul stores, supporting eight languages. The kiosk uses ESTsoft's Perso Interactive avatar platform and A…
Moss launches a semantic search engine with sub-10 ms retrieval latency, eliminating the need for vector databases and enabling real-time AI applications in browser, edge, device, or cloud environments. The tool is used …
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective July 7, 2026, shifts ro…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork, an AI agent that performs multi-step tasks, in beta for Max users on mobile and web. Users describe a goal, and Claude plans, uses tools, and produces documents, spreadsheets, or reports…
Kyrall launched a prompt-driven CAD tool that generates editable parametric 3D models from text, sketches, or images, targeting engineers who need manufacturable designs rather than static meshes. The startup offers a br…
AI or Not, a platform for guessing whether images are AI-generated, has launched new categories including Sports and Landscape, challenging users to distinguish between AI and real photos.
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastruc…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B Mixture-of-Experts model with Apache 2.0 weights, achieving a 78.0 SWE-bench Verified score and leading open-weight models on tool and search benchmarks. A free API on OpenRouter is available…
01-ai released Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat, a text-generation model on Hugging Face under the Apache-2.0 license. The 2.8 GB model, based on Yi-Coder-1.5B, has passed security scans and is available for local deployment with 8-16…
Nomagic deployed its first vision-language-action (VLA) model for warehouse robots at Swiss e-commerce platform Brack.Alltron, halving the rate of robot-caused interventions. The AI lab, led by former Google DeepMind res…
Anthropic contributors merged 8× more code per day in Q2 2026 than in 2021-2024, and economic modeling by METR researcher Thomas Kwa suggests this implies a researcher uplift of >2× from coding agents alone, even assumin…