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On July 23rd, a founding researcher resigned from OpenAI and joined Conduit, a startup building thought-to-text models trained on non-invasive neural data, aiming to enable telepathic communication with AI by 2027. The r…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist, is leaving the company after nearly 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation aimed at automating the experimental loops of the scientific method. The startup,…
SpaceX's first quarterly earnings as a public company reveal that its core business is telecom and AI compute leasing, not rockets, with Starlink generating $4.2 billion in revenue and the neocloud business driving $15.8…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation focused on automating machine learning research, with Google as a founding investor and Clo…
Jeff Dean, former Chief Scientist at Google and co-founder of Google Brain, has reportedly launched a startup called Discovery Loop with other high-profile Google executives, targeting AI-powered breakthroughs in drug di…
Discovery Loop, a new AI research company founded by Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals, announced its mission to automate scientific and engineering discovery using frontier AI models and large-scale…
Chinese startups raised over $16 billion in Q1 2026, with robotics startups alone pulling in $5.6 billion through 176 deals by mid-May, surpassing all of 2025, as investors shift focus to world models and robotics. Key r…
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le have left Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI research startup focused on automating the cycle of proposing, running, and evaluating experiments, as reported by W…
Jeff Dean, Google's chief scientist and a key figure in the development of TensorFlow and other AI technologies, announced he is leaving Google to co-found Discovery Loop, a Public Benefit Corporation aimed at automating…
Hark founder Brett Adcock announced Handoff on August 5, 2026, the company's first public product, an AI agent that operates a virtual computer to complete multi-step tasks such as recruiting, booking flights, and orderi…
Google's chief scientist, Jeff Dean, has departed after 27 years to launch a new AI firm, marking another high-profile exit from Big Tech as elite AI talent increasingly bets on themselves. The position was established i…
Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean, along with Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, have left Google after nearly 27 years to found Discovery Loop, a startup focused on automating the scientific method. The compa…
Starcloud, a startup founded on January 1, 2024, is building data centers in orbit to address AI's energy bottleneck, leveraging solar power and declining launch costs. The company raised $170 million led by Benchmark, b…
Manifund is raising money for its 2026 AI safety regranting program, citing early successes including a $143k grant in August 2023 that helped launch Timaeus, which later merged with Resolution and earned a $160m grant f…
Lovable, the $6.6 billion Swedish AI app builder, has partnered with Cerebras Systems to run its most latency-sensitive AI workloads on Cerebras' wafer-scale inference platform. The deal, announced in 2026, pairs one of …
Google is in talks to pay over $1.5 billion for Mechanize, a startup that trains AI agents to write code, according to Business Insider. The deal, valued at close to $2 billion, would license Mechanize's technology and h…
Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss for Q2 2026, improving from a $216 million loss in Q1, as its Data Centers segment turned a $20 million adjusted gross profit, a 560% jump from $3 million in Q1. The profit…
Cipher Digital, formerly Cipher Mining, sold approximately 471 BTC, reducing its holdings to 646 BTC valued at about $37.8 million, to fund its pivot to AI data center development. The company, which rebranded on Februar…
Shaw Walters, founder of Eliza Labs and the ElizaOS agent framework, declared the ELIZAOS token dead and told holders to sell, citing litigation costs and a lack of capital to fight a class action. The token, which repla…
MacPaw, a Ukraine-based app developer, has partnered with Liquid AI to power its products with locally hosted AI models, including an on-device inference system called Elix and a local memory system for its AI assistant …