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Chinese startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, which is widely acknowledged as capable of competing with leading models from Anthropic and OpenAI, triggering a sell-off in technology stocks. The Philadelphia Sto…
Wistron, the Taipei-based electronics manufacturer that bet on Nvidia eight years ago, reported $70.2 billion in revenue in 2025, more than double the prior year, as servers now account for 70% of total sales. The compan…
Cursor has launched a new plan called Cursor Start exclusively for users in India, priced at Rs. 649 per month, offering access to its most powerful model Grok 4.5 and its own Composer model. The AI coding assistant, who…
A growing number of startups are migrating away from specialized vector databases like Pinecone, Weaviate, and Milvus toward PostgreSQL and MongoDB, which have improved their vector search capabilities. By 2026, the tren…
Fermisense, an AI consultancy, reports that a 9B Qwen specialist fine-tuned for $500 on two RTX PRO 6000 GPUs over three and a half days scored 87.3% on a simulated catalog-review benchmark, outperforming frontier models…
The OCC conditionally approved Upstart Bank, N.A. on July 23, just four months after the AI lender applied, in the same week the agency rejected Wise's charter bid over compliance failures. The charter would let Upstart …
Six formerly sleepy stocks have joined the $100 billion-plus valuation club by riding the AI boom, with their combined market cap surging from $90 billion to nearly $1 trillion since mid-July 2023, according to Fortune. …
InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, launched the K1, a desktop 5-axis CNC platform that uses AI to simplify industrial-grade precision machining for individual users. Founder and CEO Bowen Xie said the company aims to …
Chinese robot maker DexForce Technology Co. is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong that could raise a few hundred million dollars, according to people familiar with the matter. The Shenzhen-based company,…
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind AI coding startup Cursor, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 subject to regulatory approvals.…
Fermisense, a consultancy, spent roughly $500 of GPU time fine-tuning a Qwen3.5-9B open model with reinforcement learning and claims it beat GPT-5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable 5 on an e-commerce c…
CTOs, heads of engineering, and VPs of engineering at startups and mid-sized companies are leaving or burning out at high rates, according to conversations with 3-4 individuals in San Francisco and New York City. Reasons…
Twenty-five major tech firms, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and Meta, signed an open letter on July 24 urging the US government not to impose premature restrictions on open-weight AI models developed by Chinese companies,…
AI coding startup Cursor launched Cursor Start, a ₹649-a-month (about $7) subscription for India, its first country-specific pricing, weeks before its expected acquisition by SpaceX closes. India is Cursor's third-larges…
OpenAI is building a mature ad business organization, with job postings for a head of scaled ads solutions and a global vendor manager to design a reseller model and operationalize vendor partnerships. The company has se…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, the most powerful AI model available today, set new records on independent benchmarks and rewrote a 50-million-line codebase in a day, compressing months of engineering into days according to …
Two disabled model entries labeled "Zinc" and "Magnesium" appeared in Design Arena on July 28th, according to model watcher Lentils (@Lentils80), raising the possibility that OpenAI is already testing revisions to its GP…
TravelAI, a Vancouver-based firm operating under UpNext Ventures, acquired the Sonder brand out of bankruptcy on July 13, 2025, for its domain authority and brand recognition, but left behind the leases, buildings, and s…
Amazon invested $13 billion in Anthropic to support the development of open-weight AI models, deepening their strategic partnership and boosting Anthropic's competitive position against rivals like OpenAI. The investment…
OpenAI has shut down its agentic browser ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch, citing strong competition from Google Chrome and a decision to bundle the product into ChatGPT. The company also discontinued its vide…