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Prentis, an AI research lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is seeking $100 million at a $1 billion valuation for computer-use agents that automate routine office work, according to a TechCrunch…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for $10 billion, signaling that model choice and routing are becoming essential infrastructure for AI development. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, deliverin…
Axiacore CEO Camilo Nova argues that AI represents the next major platform shift, comparable to the internet and mobile revolutions, with the global AI market projected to grow from $200 billion in 2023 to $1.8 trillion …
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus, and Ritankar Das, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The startup, whic…
Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation, according to sources. The startup, which launched in April, focuses on computer-use …
As the stock market sell-off reprices AI, executives are reallocating 2027 tech budgets toward proven AI infrastructure and away from speculative projects, according to experts cited by Forbes. The shift prioritizes ROI-…
Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin has retained China's strongest AI research team despite a brutal talent war, positioning the Beijing startup for a potential $30 billion Hong Kong IPO in 2026. The 80-person company, which…
OpenAI and Anthropic, two AI companies each valued near $1 trillion that have confidentially filed IPO paperwork, refused to sign a joint letter from more than two dozen companies including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and P…
Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on January 12, an autonomous AI agent for non-technical workers that automates office tasks like file organization and report generation, initially available to Claude Max subscribers on …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called for federal policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight AI models, arguing that such moves would stifle competition and drive innovation overseas. His message was backed by …
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, a model it says approaches the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price, designed for everyday use with improved efficiency and safety. The company intentionally avoided…
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas says the current gap between increasingly negative investor sentiment and largely unchanged fundamentals creates an attractive buying opportunity in SpaceX stock, with a price target of …
Together AI announced that Kimi.ai's K3 model will be hosted on its platform starting July 27, 2026, claiming the model achieves near-flagship coding performance at about 35% of the price of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 ba…
World, the biometric identity project co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, raised $52.5 million on July 24 through a sale of WLD tokens led by Pantera Capital, with investors agreeing to hold the tokens for 12 month…
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas said SpaceX shares could fall to $100 as post-IPO lockup restrictions lift, a price at which the bank's sum-of-the-parts analysis assigns zero value to the company's AI business. SpaceX,…
Midjourney, the AI startup known for its image generation tools, has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, the company announced on Thursday. The deal, which closed in spring, combines Co-Star's use of NASA da…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will announce multi-year memory chip supply contracts with US technology companies on July 24 during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's visit to San Francisco, driven by surging deman…
Elon Musk announced on July 24 that SpaceXAI will release Grok 4.6 in two weeks and Grok 4.7 four weeks later, accelerating the AI arms race against Anthropic and other labs. The two-trillion-parameter Grok 4.6 builds on…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, an AI model that costs half the price of its Fable 5 model while delivering similar performance, according to company benchmarks. Opus 5 outperforms Fable 5 in business workflows, comput…
Shanghai humanoid robotics firm AgiBot kicked off its Hong Kong IPO process on July 24, 2026, targeting a valuation between HK$40 billion and HK$50 billion ($5.1 billion to $6.4 billion). The three-year-old company, whic…