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Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the economics of China's free…
Fireworks AI released Fireworks Nexus, a drop-in routing and cost-control layer that moves routine coding work to open-weight models, citing a Forbes report that Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on…
Seagate reported fiscal Q4 2026 adjusted earnings per share of $5.71 on revenue of roughly $3.6 billion, crushing analyst expectations of $5.04-$5.12 EPS, and guided fiscal Q1 2027 revenue to approximately $4.1 billion w…
South African healthcare startup Respocare has launched an agentic AI clinical assistant designed for medical environments, integrating medical scribes and patient record reasoning as part of a broader ecosystem redesign…
Andrew Ng, who coined the term 'agentic AI,' has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup backed by Coursera with $100 million for a roughly one-third stake, valuing the pre-product company at about $300 millio…
Coursera invested $100 million in Andrew Ng's new AI education startup LearnVector, valuing the company at approximately $300 million and taking a one-third stake. Ng, who will serve as CEO, said the startup aims to upsk…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Tencent Holdings have broken into the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500 for the first time, driven by surging demand for AI chips and digital platforms. TSMC rose 44 …
Wall Street analysts tested Meta's AI glasses and came away impressed, signaling that the market may be underestimating the product's potential. The positive reception suggests a catalyst for Meta's stock that investors …
Runlayer, a startup offering a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea after a nearly year-long product trial. Runlayer cl…
Chinese chipmaker CXMT Corp. soared 466% on its market debut Monday, becoming the most valuable company listed in mainland China with a market capitalization of roughly US$490 billion. The state-backed DRAM manufacturer,…
Munich-based 5U AI raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Emerge Capital on July 28, 2026, to expand AI workers that handle quoting, bookings, tracking and invoice reconciliation inside freight forwarders' existi…
Fish Audio, operating as Hanabi AI Inc., has raised $52 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, the AI voice startup announced on its first anniversary with $21 million in annual recurring rev…
Core Scientific signed 15-year leases with AMD for 529MW across five U.S. campuses, generating more than $14 billion in potential base contracted revenue and doubling Core Scientific's total leased AI capacity to roughly…
Fish Audio, a San Francisco startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, has raised a $52 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, reaching $21 million in annual recurring revenue and 8 …
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, in a long-term strategic partnership announced July 27. The deal gives SSI access to Nvid…
Recursive Superintelligence signed a $410 million multi-year compute agreement with Amazon Web Services on Monday, making AWS its primary cloud provider for automated AI research. The deal consumes roughly 63% of the sta…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, an open-weight multimodal model with roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, on July 27, making it likely the largest open-weight model ever released. The Beijing-based company reported frontier-le…
Meta and BlackRock announced a $14 billion joint venture to build and operate a one-gigawatt AI data center in El Paso, Texas, with BlackRock holding an 80 percent controlling stake and Meta holding 20 percent. Meta will…
Liquid Interactive launched its Liquid Photos beta in July with C$700,000 in pre-seed backing from Toronto venture studio AXL. The product turns selected camera-roll images into interactive visual experiences that users …
Mate Security raised $35 million in Series A funding to build an open foundation for AI security operations, with Canaan Partners leading the round and participation from Insight Partners, Team8, and M12. The cybersecuri…