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SK Biopharmaceuticals CEO Lee Dong-hoon announced the company is doubling down on AI and open innovation as core growth pillars, following a partnership with Insilico Medicine for AI-driven drug discovery. The company al…
S2.dev, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2024, has raised $3.85 million in seed funding led by Accel to develop a serverless API that treats durable real-time streams as a fundamental cloud storage primitive. The…
Fintech company Slash reported that an employee accidentally burned $80,000 in AI tokens building a 'brainrot shooter game' called Brainrot Shooter. The employee, Nicolas Brilliante, Slash's head of strategic verticals, …
SoftBank Group is in talks to invest in Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), Japan's largest utility, to secure stable electricity for its AI data center expansion. The conglomerate, which has invested over $30…
Tech stocks tumbled Tuesday, dragging the Nasdaq down about 2%, as investors sold off shares of AI-related companies amid concerns over sky-high valuations, massive data-center spending, and geopolitical risks. Chipmaker…
Cusman AI, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2023, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from NexWave Capital to develop an AI-powered customer success platform that unifies data from multiple business systems. …
Amazon launched Alexa+ Agentic Ads during Cannes Lions and Prime Day, allowing customers to make purchases via voice commands on Echo Show devices, but users and tech reporters have criticized the increased ad load. Mean…
Computer scientist Louis Castricato left his PhD at Brown University to found Overworld, a startup building AI 'world models' that understand physical environments, as a growing number of researchers pivot from language …
F2, an AI platform for private markets investors, raised $24 million in seed funding led by Highland Capital Partners. The startup, spun out from Arc Technologies in 2025, helps private credit, private equity, and commer…
Chinese AI firm Zhipu (Knowledge Atlas Technology) is considering a multibillion-dollar share sale in Hong Kong after its stock surged nearly 2,000% since its January 2026 IPO. The company, which went public at HK$116.20…
Zhipu AI, a Chinese large language model developer, plans a Shanghai STAR Market listing to raise about $2.2 billion, six months after its Hong Kong IPO saw shares surge over 2,000%. The company, with 2025 revenue of 724…
A developer built CreatiVault, a tool to automate benchmarking and influencer tracking, but is struggling to attract users. The developer seeks advice on whether the product solves a real problem or just a personal one, …
A sell-off in US AI stocks on Monday triggered global market declines, with the Nasdaq falling 2.2% and Asian markets following suit as concerns over AI spending bubbles and potential Fed rate hikes intensified. Alphabet…
Bengaluru startup Turiyam, founded in December 2024, is building a full-stack AI inference platform that bypasses Nvidia hardware and charges customers by finished outputs rather than tokens. The company raised $4 millio…
MoEngage acquired AI startup Aampe for tens of millions of dollars to integrate per-customer reinforcement-learning decisioning into its platform. The deal aims to help MoEngage win enterprise clients migrating from Sale…
Nvidia became the world's largest publicly traded company with a market capitalization of approximately $4.845 trillion in June 2026, driven by its dominance in AI infrastructure. The milestone has influenced prediction …
Investors are shifting from value to growth stocks in Japan, driven by AI-related firms like Kioxia and SoftBank overtaking traditional manufacturers in market-cap rankings. This change reflects growing global interest i…
MoEngage acquired Aampe in an all-cash deal worth tens of millions, integrating Aampe's reinforcement learning engine that handles 200 billion personalized decisions per week for brands like Swiggy and Grab. The acquisit…
Plot.so, an AI-powered video social listening platform, has raised $14 million in seed funding to help enterprise marketing teams monitor user-generated video content across platforms. The platform uses multi-modal analy…
The US leveraged ETF market hit a record $198 billion in assets, driven by AI hype and semiconductor demand, with ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQ) and Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3X Shares (SOXL) leading the surge. Th…