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Multiple tech companies including Walmart, Uber, Lucid, Lumileds, and Keywords Studios have disclosed plans to cut about 700 jobs in the Bay Area, according to WARN notices filed with California's Employment Development …
SpaceX raised $75 billion in its June 12, 2026 IPO on Nasdaq, briefly reaching a $2 trillion market cap before a 32% pullback. The company acquired xAI earlier in 2026 to integrate AI into its space operations, and specu…
Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Congress to revamp merger law and sharpen antitrust enforcement around AI companies, arguing that Big Tech's use of licensing deals and talent acquisitions to avoid traditional merger r…
The AI market remains competitive enough that Big AI companies can be defeated through platform strategy, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that users and developers have leverage to shift power away from cor…
Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor code editor, has trained its own frontier AI model called Composer 2.5 on Qwen 2.5 Coder using novel reinforcement learning techniques, enabling it to compete with GPT-5.5 and Opu…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, an always-on AI agent that joins Slack channels as a persistent team member, replacing its older Slack connector. The agent builds long-term memory of projects and decisions, and can be tag…
Sail Research, founded by Neil Movva and Samir Menon, announced a Series A investment from Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, and Sequoia for its asynchronous inference platform that reduces costs by up to 6x compared to real-ti…
Siplinx AI emerges as a leading Granola alternative in 2026, offering fully local AI meeting notes processing with no cloud transmission, addressing privacy concerns after Granola's data training defaults and a 2025 secu…
The Democratic primary in New York's 12th Congressional District saw approximately $26.3 million in ad spending, making it the second-most expensive House primary on record, as opposing AI industry factions backed differ…
Former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka launched Hang Ten Systems with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, aiming to use AI to challenge the traditional IT services model by automating enterprise softwa…
Valence launches a real-time emotion detection API that analyzes voice to identify emotions, offering developers a tool to integrate emotion AI into their applications.
Vishal Sikka, former CEO of Infosys, launched Hang Ten Systems, an AI-driven IT services startup, with a $32 million seed round led by Mayfield. The company aims to use AI to build, modify, and operate enterprise softwar…
Astor, an SEC-registered AI investment advisor founded in 2025, provides personalized portfolio guidance to retail investors via text and voice chat by connecting to brokerage accounts through Plaid. The San Francisco-ba…
Louis Castricato, founder of Overworld, pivoted from large language model research to diffusion world models that generate real-time physical simulations on consumer hardware. The company raised $4.5 million in pre-seed …
Investors are pouring billions into world models, a new AI category focused on spatial intelligence, as Stanford professor Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $230 million in 2024 and a larger 2026 round from Nvidia, AMD, and…
Valence AI, co-founded by Chloe Duckworth and Shannon Brownlee, raised $5 million in a seed round led by Differential Ventures, coinciding with two newly issued U.S. patents for its audio signal processing pipeline that …
Cerebras Systems shares fell below their $185 IPO price to around $182 on June 24 after the AI chip designer issued disappointing earnings guidance, including a forecast for Q2 core gross margins of 36-38%, down from 46.…
A developer compared seven AI app builders as alternatives to Lovable in 2026, including Bolt.new, v0 by Vercel, Replit Agent, Base44, Bubble, Cursor, and Velra. Each tool excels in different areas: Bolt and v0 for fast …
A developer compared AI app builders Lovable and Velra for Stripe integration. Lovable excels at generating polished React apps and can scaffold Stripe checkout, but full subscription billing usually requires manual wiri…
Cerebras Systems shares plunged nearly 20% on Wednesday after the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin of 38% to 41% for the full year, compared to 47% in Q1, despite beating first-quarter earnings estimates wit…