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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…
Cognition, the $26 billion startup behind the autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company of California, makers of Poke, the first AI agent Apple officially supports inside iMessage, in a deal ann…
Cognition, the AI lab behind autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company, the startup behind text-based AI assistant Poke, in a deal valuing the target in the low nine figures. The acquisition, an…
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of the AI assistant Poke, in a deal valued in the low nine figures. The acquisition will bring Poke's conversational personality t…
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and two dozen other tech companies urged U.S. lawmakers in a letter posted Friday to avoid premature restrictions on open-source AI models, arguing that such rules could stifle competition an…
Midjourney, the AI image generation lab, has acquired astrology app Co-Star and plans to offer a new astrology-focused image generator, Bloomberg reported. The acquisition occurred in spring but was announced this week, …
AMD CEO Lisa Su dismissed concerns about a potential AI industry bubble, arguing that the intertwined ecosystem of tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI, is necessary for large-scale investments and lon…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 has topped the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61, edging past Claude Fable 5's 60 and pushing GPT-5.6 Sol into third place at 59. Anthropic is offering Opus 5 at half the…
Software value is bifurcating into two extremes, according to a framework called the Barbell of Software Value: horizontal platforms and private internal tools, with vertical SaaS surviving only in narrow, high-ROI niche…
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, held Oct. 13-15 at San Francisco's Moscone West, will feature over 200 sessions across six stages focused on AI strategy, agentic systems, and enterprise transformation, with more than 10,000 att…
SpaceX shares trading near $100 would imply investors assign zero value to its artificial intelligence business, according to Morgan Stanley analysts. The stock has fallen 18% below its June IPO price of $135, with analy…
Amazon closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco team working on artificial general intelligence, as part of layoffs across its AGI unit, according to The Information and Reuters. The lab, set up in December 2024 with several …
DeepSeek and Moonshot's Kimi K3, not China's other AI labs, have shaken Silicon Valley by disproving two foundational assumptions about AI: DeepSeek challenged the cost curve by matching frontier performance with far les…
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model, triggered a $3.3 trillion semiconductor selloff and exposed a policy rift within the Trump administration's AI circle, as OpenAI's Dean Ball w…
Notion has acquired ZeroEntropy, with the entire team joining to improve Notion AI. ZeroEntropy's reranker zerank-2 has powered Notion AI's unified search for the past two months, delivering an 85% latency decrease. All …
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for about $10 billion, a staggering price for a startup valued at $1.3 billion in May, the Wall Street Journal reported. OpenRouter lets developers access ove…