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Moonshot AI's new open-weights LLM Kimi K3 is not cheap, costing slightly less per task than OpenAI's top model but double the cost of GLM-5.2 and about 20 times more than DeepSeek V4, according to Artificial Analysis's …
Midjourney, the bootstrapped AI image company with $500M in annual revenue, acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with 4.3 million monthly users, in its first-ever acquisition. The deal closed in spring 2026 and was a…
Alphabet has locked down leases covering roughly 2.4 gigawatts of capacity across ten projects, partnering with former Bitcoin miners to secure power for AI data centers. In September 2025, Google agreed to backstop $1.4…
A Hacker News user asks whether others are struggling to invest in ideas—from side projects to startups—knowing that advances in AI could soon render any technical or operational moat obsolete, making a year or more of b…
U.S. tech companies have cut nearly 140,000 jobs in 2026 even as they pour money into AI, while 82% of small businesses have adopted AI tools, with 66% reporting revenue increases and owners saving a median five hours a …
A developer building a SaaS platform in Sri Lanka for handling sensitive documents is seeking advice on whether to combine global knowledge, internet search, and user-specific RAG. The developer is considering two archit…
A former employee of YC-backed startup Simple AI describes being fired as a brutal lesson in the volatility of the AI startup landscape, where the 'fail fast' mentality applies to employees as much as products. The autho…
Genesis AI, a Franco-American robotics startup, is in talks to raise $500 million at a $3 billion pre-money valuation, just a year after emerging from stealth with a $105 million seed round, Bloomberg reported on July 23…
Andy Trattner was fired from Simple AI, a Y Combinator-backed company, three weeks after being recruited for a leadership role and relocating from Greenville to San Francisco, where his rent increased from $1,750 to $5,7…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the company's mission is to provide equal access to education, starting with languages because English proficiency can increase earning potential for nearly 2 billion learners worldwide. Th…
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the total addressable market for AI products will grow 45% a year through 2030 to $1.4 trillion, up from her previous estimate of $500 billion six months ago, driven by surging demand for compute fro…
DeepSeek told prospective investors on July 25 to halt a second funding round that would have valued the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, triggered by a leaked transcript of founder Liang Wenfeng's private investor briefin…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, pricing it at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, undercutting Claude Fable 5's $10/$50 rate, while Artificial Analysis ranks Opus 5 at 61 on its Intelligence Index versus Fable 5's …
Nvidia shares have risen only 10% since the start of the year, lagging behind memory makers SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, as competition intensifies and investment shifts to other parts of the AI supply chain, accord…
Eurostat reports that 19.95% of EU enterprises used AI technologies in 2025, while 55.03% of large enterprises did, and 72% of EU SMEs had at least a basic level of digital intensity. The article argues that the stronges…
Small business owners are investing in AI to augment their workforce rather than replace it, driven by a persistent labor shortage and a desire to reduce paperwork and errors. Gusto projects small businesses will hire 97…
Anthropic's major chip deal with AMD signals growing demand for AI inference hardware, potentially boosting AMD's stock as it competes with Nvidia in the AI chip market.
Dianne Penn, Anthropic's first technical product manager, joined in 2023 when the product team had five engineers and has since shipped every model from Claude 2 through Fable, and helped incubate Claude Code, MCP, Skill…
Investors are punishing Big Tech stocks for rising AI capital expenditures, but AMD CEO Lisa Su, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, and IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh all report strong AI monetization and productivity gains. Alphabe…
Alphabet's Q2 earnings revealed capital expenditures of over $78 billion in the first half of the year, with total 2026 spending expected between $195 billion and $205 billion, mostly on data centers and custom silicon. …