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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…
Tesla disclosed in a July 23 regulatory filing that it acquired an unnamed AI hardware company during the second quarter of 2026 for $1.95 billion in stock and equity awards, with $1.73 billion tied to service or deploym…
HCLTech will invest ₹142.57 billion ($1.48 billion) to build its first AI data center in Bhubaneswar, Odisha, with Sarvam AI as its model partner and the Odisha government providing financial assistance. The project, par…
Okara launched what it calls the world's first AI-driven influencer agent on July 24th, 2026, allowing users to automate the entire influencer marketing campaign from creator selection to payment and content publication,…
BlackRock is attempting to raise more than $12 billion in bonds to build a 1-gigawatt AI data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with Meta Platforms holding a 20% equity stake and leasing capacity. Bond investors are deman…
More than half of UK firms (54%) are now actively using AI in their operations, up from 23% three years ago, according to the British Chambers of Commerce. Two-thirds of UK businesses have invested in AI, with most spend…
Nearly 200 US startups, organized as the Little Tech Association, urged the Trump administration not to block American access to Chinese open-weight AI models, warning a ban would gut the next wave of US companies. The s…
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, warned the Trump administration on July 22 that banning Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI and Alibaba's Qwen would cause 'hundreds of comp…
Pakistan launched a USD 20 million venture fund at the Indus Robotics and Autonomous Systems Expo 2026, which drew over 25,000 visitors to Islamabad. Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif announced the Pakistan Venture …
Midjourney, an AI lab known for its image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, which has about 4.3 million monthly active users. The deal terms were not disclosed, and Co-Star's team of tw…
TEKenable, a provider of AI, data and cloud solutions, has launched a new partnership programme that will create at least 30 jobs over the next 12 months, bringing its total headcount from 200 to more than 230 by mid-202…
Yang Zhilin, the founder of China's Moonshot AI, has closed the gap with leading US rivals with the company's new K3 model, according to the Financial Times. Known as 'Yang the genius' by classmates, Yang leads the Beiji…
A group of over 200 startups called the Little Tech Association, including YCombinator, sent a letter to science adviser Michael Kratsios and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lobbying against an outright ban of open-wei…
Midjourney acquired astrology app Co-Star, which has more than 30 million registered accounts, according to a Bloomberg report published July 23, in a move to own more of the consumer relationship instead of relying on D…