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Nearly 200 venture-backed startups, organized by the Little Tech Association, sent letters to President Trump and other officials on July 22 urging the U.S. government not to restrict access to Chinese open-weight AI mod…
More than 200 startups, including members of Y Combinator's network, are opposing proposed U.S. bans on Chinese AI models that have already cut costs in half for companies like Coinbase, which reported a 50% reduction in…
SpaceX's S-1 IPO filing reveals Anthropic pays SpaceXAI $1.25 billion per month for exclusive access to all 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at the Colossus 1 facility in Tennessee through May 2029, the largest AI compute deal in his…
The AI industry is shifting its focus from raw model intelligence to 'intelligence per dollar,' as many models become good enough for business tasks and buyers prioritize cost efficiency. Amazon's rebuild of Alexa+ exemp…
Anthropic released Fable-lite, a smaller version of its AI model, while Block introduced Buzz, a new product, according to Tom Krazit's Runtime newsletter. Google unveiled a new security model, Poolside released a new op…
NAVER is scaling its GAK Sejong AI data center in South Korea to 200 megawatts by 2028, backed by roughly $10 billion in combined investment from NVIDIA and Brookfield Asset Management. The facility, which will run NVIDI…
Alphabet and Tesla lost a combined $580 billion in market value this week as investors punished heavy AI spending, while suppliers like Supermicro Computer and Digital Realty surged on the same capital outlays. Alphabet'…
Kyber (YC W23), an AI-native document platform for enterprises, is hiring a Head of Engineering with a path to CTO. The company's solution enables insurance claims organizations to consolidate 80% of templates, reduce dr…
NVIDIA and South Korea's SK Group announced a semiconductor and AI partnership worth more than $500 billion, while Samsung Electronics and Broadcom expanded their strategic collaboration in a deal estimated to exceed $20…
Etched, a chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts, closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation on July 23, led by Sequoia, to produce its Sohu ASIC that hardwires transformer model inference into s…
Design startup Paper closed a $34 million Series A on July 23, led by Accel and ICONIQ, to build a platform where HTML and CSS are the native design language, directly challenging Figma's proprietary format. The round co…
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said Anthropic asked SK to supply materials for making its own AI chips, according to a Bloomberg report. The request signals Anthropic's push to reduce reliance on Nvidia and develop custo…
Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, cofounder and CEO of Waterlily, has raised nearly $10 million for her AI startup after her aunt's cancer diagnosis inspired her to shift from aerospace engineering to building a platform that hel…
SaaS companies should stop pushing for multi-year contracts in the Age of AI, as shorter contracts become the norm. According to ICONIQ's 2026 data, three-year contracts dropped from 28% of new logos in 2023 to 23% in 20…
Manoj Aggarwal, a lead software engineer at a large software company with 14 years of experience at Microsoft, Twitter, and Stripe, says AI tools could reduce the need for junior engineers but not for experienced ones. H…
AI wrappers—thin layers over models like GPT-4—are dying as margins collapse, users shift to native tools, and enterprises demand integrated AI. Survivors fall into three categories: vertical AI agents that own end-to-en…
Greg Brockman, cofounder and president of OpenAI, described the pressure of leading the most high-stakes startup in history, saying he leans on his wife for support. In an interview with Fortune, Brockman discussed OpenA…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, offering performance comparable to its top-tier Fable 5 model at half the price, with relaxed cyber safety measures and automatic fallback on refusal. The move targets cost-conscious ent…
Aitrainer.work, an AI training job board and platform founded by an anonymous creator in January, generated $1,360 in June revenue after launching a paid certification, up from $24 in March, despite a February Google upd…
Nvidia has secured a contract with South Korea's SK Hynix, potentially worth $500 billion over several years, to ensure supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips critical for AI computing. The deal, announced at an AI …