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Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported fiscal Q2 2026 revenue of $10.68 billion, a 40% year-over-year increase, driven by AI infrastructure demand. The company's AI server backlog reached nearly $6 billion, and its stock su…
Crypto venture capital firm Paradigm closed a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in artificial intelligence and robotics, signaling a strategic shift beyond its traditional focus on cryptocurrency and blockchain startups…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup using generative AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Account Executive to help scale from $2M to $10M ARR. The company's AI agents outperform human collectors b…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), China's top DRAM maker, set a subscription date for its Shanghai IPO expected to raise at least 29.5 billion yuan (US$4.3 billion), making it the second-largest on the Star Market. Th…
Clemens Wessendorff's ARC Intelligence raised EUR4 million in seed funding for an AI-native finance platform that connects ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems into one control layer. The round was led by 42CAP, with pa…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 8, a coding-focused AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, with Elon Musk claiming it rivals Claude Opus 4.7 in performance while offering supe…
Founders launching AI-built apps must evaluate code ownership, build limits, data security, and pre-launch technical reviews, as highlighted by Builder.ai's bankruptcy after raising $450 million from Microsoft and SoftBa…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model focused on coding and agents, trained in partnership with Cursor. The model offers near-frontier performance with faster speed and lower cost, positioning itself as a compe…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his software engineers prefer building AI agents over writing Python code, as the company shifts focus to agentic systems. Huang argued that AI creates new jobs rather than replacing workers,…
BNB Chain launched BNB Agent Studio on July 1, 2026, partnering with AWS, Trust Wallet, and PieVerse to enable developers to deploy autonomous on-chain AI agents in 15 minutes. The platform integrates AWS Bedrock AgentCo…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI and chipmaker Iluvatar CoreX Semiconductor saw their shares surge after launching secondary placements to raise HK$31.4 billion and HK$7.1 billion, respectively, for hardware and research. The pl…
OpenAI Deployment Company agreed to acquire Northslope, an applied AI firm founded by former Palantir employees, Axios reported on July 8, 2026. The deal, the deployment arm's second acquisition since its May launch, aim…
A developer argues that broken hiring processes are crippling AI and quantum startups. The system's slow, opaque, and credential-focused approach causes top talent to opt out, while startups lose months of progress on ke…
Nurix, a voice AI startup co-founded by Mukesh Bansal and Anantika Jain, is expanding into workflow automation after reaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue, with a new target of $50 million ARR by 2028, accordi…
Zhipu, the Beijing-based AI company behind the GLM large language models, raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong share placement on July 8, 2026, at a 13% discount to its previous close, just six months after its IPO. The stoc…
OpenAI is expanding its advertising pilot to France, Germany, and Ireland, hiring regional managers and client partners in Paris, Munich, and Dublin. The move follows its UK launch and aims to cover Europe's three larges…
AI-powered financial advisers are gaining an edge over traditional human rivals by leveraging data analysis and personalized recommendations, according to a Financial Times report. The technology enables faster, more con…
Omega AI launches a new agent system that automates workflows across Salesforce, Zendesk, and Datadog with 99% accuracy, charging only for completed work and offering a cheaper alternative to Claude Max and ChatGPT Pro.
Auxilius, a Germany-based AI governance, risk and compliance automation startup, raised EUR 1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by High-Tech Gruenderfonds with participation from Techstars. The company converts enterpris…
Thousands of users are abandoning Character.ai in 2026 due to repetitive responses and aggressive filters, seeking alternatives like Polybuzz, Chai, Silly Tavern, and Swerve. A new contender, chatbrat.ai, is gaining trac…