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Mitsubishi Motors has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Highlanders, Inc., a University of Tokyo spinout, to jointly develop and mass-produce AI-powered humanoid robots at its Kyoto plant, targeting 1,000 units p…
Chinese AI models are gaining popularity in the U.S. for their affordability and efficiency, with Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian switching to Moonshot's Kimi K3 and Coinbase adopting Chinese models to cut costs. The Trump a…
Defence giants are providing record backing for military start-ups, with traditional companies acting more like venture capitalists as drones and autonomous systems transform the battlefield, according to the Financial T…
Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 open-weight coding model on July 17, topping Arena AI's Frontend Code Leaderboard with an Elo score of 1,679, ahead of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. The Beijing sta…
South Korea moved to cement its role in the global AI supply chain Friday as Samsung Electronics and SK Group unveiled massive AI infrastructure partnerships with Broadcom, Nvidia and other US tech leaders under Presiden…
For heavy data workloads like LLM fine-tuning, RunPod and Lambda Labs offer better GPU rental options than Google Colab, which suffers from fast credit depletion and session timeouts, according to a user discussion. RunP…
Switch, the Las Vegas data center operator taken private for $11 billion in December 2022, is planning an IPO that could value it at close to $80 billion including debt, according to Reuters. The company has hired Goldma…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce (over 600 employees) as part of a restructuring plan tied to its AI-driven growth strategy, according to an SEC filing. Co-founder Eran Zinman said the move was not to repla…
Isomorphic Labs, the Alphabet spinoff, released IsoDDE on February 10, a unified drug design engine that achieves a 50% success rate on the hardest molecular prediction tasks, outperforming AlphaFold 3's 23% and beating …
Samsung Electronics is betting on a lighter design and all-day comfort to challenge Meta in the smart eyewear market, with its first Galaxy AI glasses featuring split computing that distributes tasks between the glasses …
A developer building an AI automation tool for small businesses spent three months with zero revenue before landing a first customer at $29/month. After pivoting from a generic workflow builder to a niche solution for e-…
Rumors that Andrej Karpathy left Anthropic began circulating on July 25, 2026, after X users questioned whether he had removed the AI lab from his profile, but neither Karpathy nor Anthropic has confirmed a departure. Th…
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya warned on July 18 that a US ban on open-source AI could saddle American companies with AI token costs 50 times higher than foreign competitors, potentially harming stock market val…
CXMT Corp., formerly ChangXin Memory Technologies, is set to become the biggest China-listed firm on its debut after raising 66.6 billion yuan ($9.8 billion) in a near-record IPO, tapping into investor frenzy over memory…
OpenAI and Anthropic have been privately lobbying Washington regulators to restrict open-weight AI models from China, even as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly supports open-source AI, according to The New York Times. The p…
Nvidia and Google are converging their flagship AI chips on TSMC's N3 node, which TSMC says will remain tight for multiple years, creating an opening for Intel's 18A and 14A processes. TSMC's N3 capacity is already fully…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announced that AI agents now trigger more than half of the platform's 6 million daily deployments, up from under 3% six months ago, marking a tipping point in the agent era. At Vercel's Ship co…
DeepSeek has paused its fundraising efforts after a leaked transcript of an investor meeting revealed founder Liang Wenfeng's comments on the company's compute gap compared to US rivals. The transcript, dated July 22, 20…
Nvidia commands up to 81% of AI accelerator revenue in the first half of 2026, with data center sales projected to exceed $150 billion for the year, but its stock gained only 15% while AMD surged roughly 114% and Intel j…
Kurt Mackey is stepping down as CEO of Fly.io, handing control to former Docker CEO Scott Johnston as the cloud infrastructure provider raises a $25 million Series D and pivots its product toward persistent computing env…