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Top marketing executives from Duolingo, Gap, and American Express said at Business Insider's CMO Insider Breakfast that prioritizing creative risk-taking over AI and brand safety is key to success in a fragmented digital…
Corgi Insurance has partnered with First Citizens' Silicon Valley Bank to offer AI-native risk management solutions. The collaboration aims to leverage artificial intelligence to enhance risk assessment and insurance pro…
Amazon walked away from an OpenAI movie deal, likely due to the $50 billion valuation gap versus a $50 million budget and concerns the film could be anti-AI. Meta launched $299 AI glasses without the Ray-Ban brand, under…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's plan for orbital data centers, saying the costs would outweigh the benefits and that the AI race will be decided on Earth. Son's comments came as SpaceX shares dipped belo…
Nordic stock exchanges fell on Tuesday, led by declines in technology and AI-related stocks. Oslo's OBX index dropped 0.1%, with Norsk Hydro falling 3.8% and Nordic Semiconductor down 4.7%. Copenhagen's OMXC25 slipped 0.…
Kun Chen, a former L8 principal engineer at Meta, Microsoft, and Atlassian, details his agentic engineering setup after leaving big tech to build solo. He now acts as an engineering manager directing a team of agents, sh…
Cloud storage provider Backblaze secured a 5-year, multi-exabyte storage deal with AI cloud provider CoreWeave worth $335 million. Backblaze will provide HDD-based storage tiers for CoreWeave AI Object Storage, serving c…
OpenAI plans to grow its advertising business to $100 billion by 2030, according to sources at the Cannes Lions festival. The company is revamping ChatGPT to win enterprise clients ahead of its IPO, competing with Anthro…
Three open-weight coding models launched in the week after the US Commerce Department pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline, including Zhipu's GLM 5.2, Moonshot's Kimi K2.7-Code, and Cohere's North Mini Code. The incident …
OpenAI reported $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs and expenses in 2025, resulting in a net loss of $38.53 billion, according to financials seen by Ed Zitron. The losses, nearly eight times higher tha…
China's CXMT, the country's leading DRAM manufacturer, is set to go public on the STAR Market in what could be the largest semiconductor IPO in China. Founded by Zhu Yiming, the company has leveraged technology from bank…
Tech stocks tumbled Tuesday, with the Nasdaq Composite falling nearly 2%, as a global sell-off in chipmakers sparked fears of an AI bubble burst. Major semiconductor companies like Samsung, SK Hynix, and Nvidia saw sharp…
Several Magnificent Seven stocks have declined recently due to uncertainty over AI growth sustainability and increased competition. Fund manager Inge Heydorn of Chelverton Asset Management sees a buying opportunity in Mi…
Josh, a new partner at A16Z, announced that the AI wave is opening new opportunities for consumer startups, drawing on his experience building Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Robinhood. He believes AI-first consumer app…
A sharp selloff in South Korean stocks, driven by leveraged bets on AI-related semiconductor stocks, cascaded into US tech markets on Tuesday, highlighting that leverage in AI trading poses a greater near-term risk than …
Tech stocks collapsed on Tuesday, with S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures sliding 1.6% and 2.8%, respectively, wiping out over $1 trillion in market value. SpaceX shares fell for four consecutive days after a blockbuster IPO…
SpaceX closed a $150 million per month AI compute deal with open-source startup Reflection AI, converting itself into a neocloud provider. Meanwhile, AI infrastructure startup Baseten raised a $1.5 billion Series F at a …
Fika Jobs raised $4 million in pre-seed funding led by Luminar Ventures to build a video-first hiring platform where AI agents interview candidates and create searchable profiles, aiming to surface traits that resumes mi…
A16z is leading Probook's $34 million Series A, bringing total funding to $40 million, to expand its AI-powered dispatch platform for home services. Probook's system centralizes dispatch, intake, and customer messaging, …
Meta launched its Small Business Growth Academy across Asia-Pacific to help small businesses adopt AI and digital tools, addressing skills gaps and data privacy concerns. The program, in partnership with governments and …