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Cerebras Systems announced plans to deploy 200 megawatts of AI compute capacity across Europe by 2027, with initial capacity online by late 2026. The build-out, spanning France, Norway, and Finland, will partly serve Ope…
Elon Musk has built Tesla into a company worth around $1.5 trillion, exceeding the combined value of the next 10 most valuable carmakers, despite selling far fewer vehicles. Investors treat Tesla as an AI and robotics fi…
Recruitment firms like Randstad are pivoting to specialized AI roles as generative AI automates routine hiring tasks, with demand for AI solutions leads up 226% and process automation specialists up 196%. The industry be…
Alchemab Therapeutics secured a £25 million investment from the British Business Bank, the largest life sciences bet by the state-owned lender. The funding will expand the company's AI-driven antibody database and advanc…
Whering, a UK digital wardrobe platform, raised $7 million in seed funding co-led by eBay Ventures and Google AI Futures Fund. The company plans to use the capital to develop AI-assisted styling and resale features, leve…
Francisco Javier Roldán Velásquez, founder and CEO of Ethos Engine, is seeking pre-seed funding and Silicon Valley connections to scale his deterministic AI safety infrastructure. The system uses proprietary mathematical…
Chinese AI labs, including DeepSeek and Zhipu AI, are developing custom chips to reduce long-term operating costs and improve hardware-software synergy, but the strategy carries significant risk due to heavy upfront inve…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in Series A funding led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, and Dell Technologies Capital, to build an open superintelligence stack for trainin…
Display.dev, a Tallinn-based agent document platform founded by Ott Ilves and Carl Rannaberg, raised EUR 470,000 in pre-seed funding from Outlast Fund, FIRSTPICK, Curiosity VC, and angel investor Henrik Bohman. The start…
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…
Grace Investment Machine (GIM) raised a $20 million Series A on July 9, 2026, co-led by Hony Capital and an unnamed U.S. venture firm, to build agentic capital-markets AI systems. The company claims to combine finance-tu…
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…