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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…
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, claiming it matches the frontier intelligence of Fable 5 at half the price. The model sets state-of-the-art scores on coding and knowledge-work benchmarks, scores three …
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced a new partnership with Anthropic, emphasizing that the AI ecosystem should be 'intertwined' for mutual success. Su discussed the collaboration with Yahoo Finance, highlighting the importance of …
AI is reshaping biotech from discovery to clinical success, with companies like Noetik, ExpressionEdits, Sen-Jam Pharmaceutical, and Manifold Bio using AI to raise the probability of clinical success, redesign genetic in…
Anduril Industries is in talks with investors for a funding round that could value the defense drone maker at roughly $100 billion, eight weeks after doubling to $61 billion in a $5 billion round led by Thrive Capital an…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang posted on X for the first time on Thursday to amplify a letter from 25 tech companies, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Palantir, urging Congress to keep open-weight AI models unrestricted. …
A coalition led by Nvidia Corp. and Microsoft Corp. called on policymakers to promote open-weight AI models, arguing they are critical to maintaining US technological leadership. In a letter shared by Nvidia CEO Jensen H…
Short interest in the S&P 500 has reached its highest level since S3 Partners began tracking the data in 2010, with 3.7% of the index's free float now tied up in short bets, nearly double the level from a year ago and ap…
Anthropic released a new AI model that rivals Fable 5 in capability and cost-effectiveness, according to CNBC. The model aims to address business concerns over AI expenses, potentially boosting Anthropic's market share. …
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, its best performing and most cost-effective AI model, rivaling Fable 5 at a lower price as businesses seek cheaper AI solutions, the company announced July 24, 2026.
Anthropic debuted its Claude Opus 5 AI model on Thursday, the fourth in its Claude 5 family, positioning it as a go-to model for most tasks at half the cost of its most capable model, Fable 5. The company filed confident…
A new natural-language discovery tool lets developers and founders query the Y Combinator portfolio for niche AI infrastructure solutions by describing their technical problem in plain English, bypassing generic keyword …
OpenAI expects to spend $750 billion on AI infrastructure by 2030, a 25% increase from earlier estimates, and is planning a 3.2 gigawatt data center in Georgia costing $20-30 billion, while rival Anthropic has committed …
Independent builders should abandon the micro-SaaS model of selling generalized niche tools because AI has made such software easy to replicate and customer demand is consolidating into a few heavy platforms, argues desi…
George Hahn reports that cheaper Chinese AI models are undercutting America's AI dominance, while Oracle's growing debt raises alarms about the sustainability of the AI boom. Hahn also highlights Derek Thompson's concept…
Stripe is in talks to acquire AI startup OpenRouter for roughly $10 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal, marking a significant expansion beyond payments for the company. OpenRouter, valued at $1.3 billion in Ma…
Tesla closed a ~$2 billion acquisition of an unnamed AI hardware company in Q2 2026, paying $1.95 billion in stock and equity awards, according to its 10-Q filing. Only $222 million was allocated to a patent and develope…