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ASRock Rack Inc. announced support for the newly-launched 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series processors, unveiled at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, and will showcase upcoming server platforms optimized for the new pro…
A bootstrapped team built Beonmap, an AI-powered job discovery platform, after abandoning a CRM SaaS project. The developer deleted two months of work to pivot, then rebuilt the product as a mobile app after realizing us…
Patreon laid off about 20% of its workforce, or roughly 93 employees, on July 23, 2026, with CEO Jack Conte citing AI as the forcing function in a memo to staff. Affected employees will receive 16 weeks of base pay, plus…
Elon Musk thanked Samsung, TSMC, and Micron during Tesla's Q2 earnings call on Wednesday, highlighting the critical role of memory chips in the AI boom. The rapid construction of AI data centers has caused a DRAM shortag…
Anthropic on Thursday upgraded its Claude voice mode to let users choose between the Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models, defaulting to the fastest version of the model last used in text chat. The update, reported by TechCrunc…
AegisAI, founded by former Google Safe Browsing and reCAPTCHA engineers Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, launched with $13M in seed funding from Accel and Foundation Capital, arguing that legacy email security tools from Proofp…
Microsoft could sell its ~27% stake in OpenAI for over $200B and redeploy the cash into AI app-layer startups, according to an analysis by Margin Points. The move would allow Microsoft to capitalize on its distribution s…
Mercor, a San Francisco-based AI recruiting and data platform, hit $614 million in gross revenue during the first half of 2026 with an annualized run rate of $2 billion, processing over $2 million in daily payouts to con…
Cerebras Systems shares rose after the company announced a partnership with Advanced Micro Devices to combine their technologies for artificial intelligence systems, according to CNBC.
Sierra is acquiring TakeOff, the leader in long-horizon AI agents, according to a July 23rd, 2026 post on X by former Salesforce CTO Bret Taylor. The deal brings in TakeOff founder Aakash Thumaty and the entire TakeOff t…
AegisAI, a startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised $36 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures to combat AI-driven spear phishing. The company's AI agents ana…
On July 23, 2026, Sonilo announced the first Sound World Model, Sonilo Sound Effects 1.0, which generates synchronized music and sound effects from raw video input. The startup claims leadership on 12 of 15 video-to-soun…
AMD CEO Lisa Su unveiled the Helios AI platform at a San Francisco event to compete with Nvidia's Vera Rubin, claiming AMD has an edge in efficiency and cost. The platform includes the new Instinct MI455X GPU and Venice …
Business Insider has identified 22 VC firms actively funding social media startups, with AI driving down development costs and enabling new consumer apps. PitchBook data shows social startup deals peaked at 239 in 2021 b…
Cathedral, a stealth military cybersecurity startup founded by four former Department of Government Efficiency staffers, has raised $160 million at a $1.4 billion valuation. Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital led th…
Microsoft AI on July 23rd 2026 launched public previews of MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, two purpose-built generative models trained on enterprise-grade data. MAI-Image-2.5-Pro is priced at $5 per 1M text inpu…
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, his industrial-AI and robotics company, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that included Uber as an investor. The funding, which also includes credit facilities from majo…
Ten cows on a dairy farm in Paraná, Brazil, became the first livestock collateral formally registered on B3, the country's main stock exchange, backing a R$100,000 (about $19,420) CPR-F loan from BMP and registered by Ta…
VAST Data is expanding its collaboration with AMD to support AMD EPYC and Instinct processors in its AI OS software, aiming to build and operate high-performance AI factories at scale. The deal includes VAST selecting 6t…
Cursor, the AI coding tool recently acquired by Elon Musk's SpaceX in a $60 billion all-stock deal, has launched a model router, joining Ramp and Meta in building such systems. However, Cursor and Ramp have major model a…