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Blueshoe, an AI-native law firm founded by Casey O'Grady and Kai Yee Wan, launched as a full-stack consumer and plaintiff-side firm, not a legal AI tool. The Y Combinator-backed startup aims to rebuild the law firm aroun…
Kog released Laneformer 2B, a 2.3B-parameter coding model designed for high-speed decoding, on Hugging Face Hub. The model was trained from scratch with latency as the primary objective, achieving 45.1% HumanEval+ and 51…
Wall Street opened higher on Wednesday after Micron Technology's strong quarterly earnings report boosted other semiconductor stocks. The Nasdaq Composite rose 0.9%, the S&P 500 gained 0.8%, and the Dow Jones increased 0…
Probook, a New York startup using AI to automate dispatch for plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractors, raised $40 million in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The 24-year-old CEO George Eliadi…
Adobe acquired Topaz Labs, an AI-powered image and video enhancement tool maker, to integrate its models into Adobe's Firefly app and Creative Cloud suite. The deal aims to strengthen Adobe's AI capabilities and retain u…
Two AI agent security startups, Arcade.dev and Convey, raised a combined $98 million in 72 hours, signaling a market gap as 80.9% of technical teams have AI agents in production but only 14.4% have full security approval…
TensorX and Solstice announced a partnership to create a $1 billion financing facility for AI hardware and data-center capacity across the EU, aiming to meet rising demand for sovereign AI compute. Solstice also launched…
Solstice and TensorX announced a $1 billion financing facility to fund AI hardware purchases and data center expansion across Europe, targeting rising demand for locally hosted AI services. The partnership combines Tenso…
Anthropic hired Steve Jarrett, Orange's chief AI officer, to lead its European and African expansion. Jarrett will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt products for those markets. The hire underscores A…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Netris, a startup that provides network management software for GPU data centers. The company's solution addresses the complexity of managing multiple networks in AI data center…
Sail Research raised $80 million across seed and Series A rounds to build inference infrastructure for AI agents that run for hours across thousands of simultaneous tasks. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the startup offers hi…
Investor Michael Burry, known for 'The Big Short,' framed a Lululemon shopping bag from 2011 that read 'Who is JOHN GALT' because he enjoys controversy. He detailed this in a Substack post, also arguing that Lululemon's …
Z.AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model outperforms GPT-5.5 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark, scoring 62.1 versus 58.6, while costing $1.40 per million input tokens compared to GPT-5.5's $8.00. Released under an MIT licens…
Render Network experienced negative GPU supply for the first time since 2018, as surging AI workloads and rapid onboarding consumed all available compute capacity. The decentralized platform added 60,000 GPUs in six mont…
The launch of Z.ai's GLM 5.2 and DeepSeek V4 Flash has created a 50x price gap between open-weight APIs and closed frontier models, reshaping the build-versus-buy calculus for developers. While open-weight models democra…
Dutch AI company General Intuition raised $320 million in a new funding round, bringing its total to $454 million since October 2025 and valuing the firm at $2.3 billion. Investors include Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Khosl…
A 30-day series on building AI-powered products reaches Day 22, detailing how knowledge workers can package their expertise into scalable products using AI. The piece outlines a six-step process for creating defensible p…
A firm that helps Nvidia, TSMC, and Intel bring AI ideas to market is highlighted as a breakout watch, indicating its role in commercializing AI innovations for major chipmakers.
Sail Research, a startup founded by former Apple engineer Neil Movva, launched from stealth with $80 million in seed and Series A funding at a $450 million valuation. The company is building an AI infrastructure platform…
LinkedIn data shows a 69% surge in U.S. professionals adopting the founder title in 2025, driven by AI tools that lower barriers to solopreneurship. AI acts as a virtual cofounder, providing coaching, bookkeeping, and ma…