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OpenAI signed a multi-year display deal with Getty Images to show licensed photos in ChatGPT, boosting Getty's stock by ~145%. ByteDance teased Seedance 2.5, a 30-second AI video generator with single-shot output and 4K …
Xella Health, an AI-powered precision health platform for women, launched Wednesday with $4.7 million in funding. The startup uses artificial intelligence to analyze biomarkers and detect over 130 conditions affecting wo…
Menlo Ventures raised $3 billion, its largest fund in 50 years, fueled by a single bet on Anthropic now worth about $14 billion. The firm split the capital into early-stage and growth funds to back AI startups from seed …
Runlayer raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures participating, to build security and compliance infrastructure for corporate AI agents. The New York-based startup's platform provides …
A 2026 analysis of 1,645 Lovable-created web applications found 170 had vulnerabilities exposing personal information, highlighting structural issues in AI-generated code. A survey of 18 CTOs in 2025 reported 16 producti…
Micron Technology Inc is set to report third-quarter earnings on Wednesday, with Wall Street expecting revenue of $35.5 billion, a 281% year-over-year increase, driven by surging demand for memory chips used in AI data c…
Vinod Khosla pushed to buy every dollar of Runlayer's $30 million Series A, a rare signal of conviction from the influential investor. Runlayer builds governance infrastructure for AI agent workforces, functioning as a c…
Qualcomm is in advanced negotiations to acquire AI infrastructure startup Modular for approximately $4 billion, more than doubling its last known valuation. The deal aims to bolster Qualcomm's data center ambitions by in…
Qualcomm will acquire Silicon Valley chip startup Modular for nearly $4 billion, including $300 million for employees. The deal, announced Wednesday, aims to expand Qualcomm's AI capabilities beyond mobile chips into dat…
Consulting firm Bain & Company is using AI-generated replicas of acquisition targets' software, a practice called vibecoding, to help potential buyers assess how easily a company's technology could be reproduced. The app…
Chinese AI lab Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar share sale in Hong Kong after its stock surged roughly 2,000% since January, pushing its market value above HK$1 trillion. The rally follows the launch of its ope…
Alibaba Group slashed prices for its Qwen AI models by up to 80% on its Qoder coding platform, targeting US workday hours to attract global developers amid fierce competition with US and Chinese rivals like Anthropic and…
Qualcomm is negotiating to design custom chips for ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, as part of a deeper push into AI data center infrastructure. The deal would involve application-specific integrated circuits tailored…
Seltz, a nine-person startup, raised $12.5 million in seed funding to build a search infrastructure purpose-built for AI agents, replacing legacy APIs like Google and Bing. The company wrote its own crawler, index, and r…
AI-powered law firm Garfield AI won a landmark UK court case, recovering £7,000 in unpaid fees for a freelance HR consultant. The firm's technology handled virtually all pre-trial work, including document disclosure and …
Hyperscale Data signed a Master Services Agreement on June 24 with an unnamed California-based neocloud provider to deliver 20 MW of AI compute capacity at its Michigan data center, with options to expand to 84 MW, poten…
Italian startup Seltz raised $12.5 million in seed funding led by Speedinvest and B Capital to build an AI-native search engine designed for AI agents and chatbots, offering structured data via APIs instead of traditiona…
Meta and Microsoft have each committed approximately $50 billion in new data center leases, pushing total infrastructure obligations across major cloud providers past $700 billion and approaching $850 billion with OpenAI…
A wave of stocks has seen triple-digit gains in 2026, with the S&P 500's return on equity boosted by the AI capex boom. Retail investors are pouring into U.S. stocks at a record pace, while consumer spending growth hit a…
Dutch chip startup Euclyd, backed by former ASML CEO Peter Wennink, is seeking about 200 million euros ($229 million) in Series A financing, according to Bloomberg. The round is not yet closed and the amount could change…