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Microsoft is replacing OpenAI's image generation models in PowerPoint and Bing with its own MAI-Image-2, the clearest sign yet that its $13 billion investment doesn't guarantee a permanent product placement. The MAI-Imag…
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic and deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs in Helios rackscale solutions to run Claude, with the first gigawatt shipping in the first half of 2027. The pa…
Progress Software agreed to buy Domo's AI and data business for $400 million, leaving Domo as a separate publicly listed company with $246 million in cash and over $900 million in net operating loss carryforwards. Domo C…
Wonder founder and CEO Marc Lore is betting on AI-created sauces and drone BBQ delivery, with the company planning an IPO within the next year. Wonder recently closed a $650 million Series D round at a $9 billion pre-mon…
Paper, a design software startup founded by Stephen Haney, raised a $34 million Series A co-led by Accel and ICONIQ, bringing its total funding to $38.5 million. The company offers a professional design environment rende…
SK Telecom launched SK Hyper, a wholly owned AI data center subsidiary, with a 750 billion won ($510 million) capital commitment through 2030 and a target of 15GW of capacity by 2035. The buildout includes a flagship 100…
AI chip startup Etched raised $300 million in a Series C round led by Sequoia, valuing the company at $10.3 billion, doubling its valuation from $5 billion in December. The company, which builds chips specialized for AI …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model is set to intensify price competition in the AI sector, potentially challenging US dominance. The Financial Times reports that the model's capabilities and cost efficien…
Replit will cut its autoscale compute price by 81% on August 1st, reducing the cost from $3.20 to $0.60 per million compute units, as the AI software builder aims to keep users on its platform after they generate an app.…
OpenAI and Anthropic are urging the US government to restrict access to advanced Chinese AI models on national security grounds, but critics including White House AI adviser David Sacks argue the move would protect a duo…
Black Forest Labs (BFL) launched FLUX 3, a multimodal AI model that generates 20-second videos with synchronized audio, processes images, and predicts actions for robotics, with early access beginning July 23. The $3.25 …
Merge co-founder and CEO Shensi Ding launched Fusion on July 23rd, a product that lets developers send a single API call to multiple AI models and uses a separate judge model to assemble their responses into a final answ…
Etched, a startup founded in 2022, has partnered with Andreessen Horowitz to build purpose-built AI inference hardware, raising approximately $800 million in total funding and securing over $1 billion in customer contrac…
Voicify, a Google Cloud customer, uses Gemini Flash via the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to power AI-enabled voice assistants for restaurants and healthcare, achieving 25% to 30% cost savings compared to previous LLM…
A video podcast host is quitting Spotify's podcast platform due to chronic reliability issues, noting that competitors have not faced similar problems. Moonshot AI's open model Kimi K3 matches Anthropic's Fable 5, raisin…
Ropedia, a company building data infrastructure for physical AI, has raised $22 million in pre-Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $30 million. The company plans to use the funds to scale its HOMIE wearable h…
Etched, a San Jose-based AI chip startup, raised $300 million in a Series C round at a $10.3 billion valuation, led by Sequoia Capital, to scale production of its Sohu transformer-specific ASIC that claims 20x inference …
ServiceNow reported Q2 2026 revenue of $3.99 billion, up 24% year-over-year and above the $3.93 billion consensus, as its AI annual contract value crossed $1 billion for the first time with agentic deployments up ninefol…
Micron Technology secured a significant memory chip allocation for Tesla, CEO Elon Musk revealed during Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 22, calling the terms 'reasonable.' Micron's stock rose roughly 2.5% in after-…
Retail tech receives disproportionately little venture capital because investors perceive slow adoption, difficult integrations, and failed pilots in the sector, according to Forbes contributor Richard Kestenbaum. The ar…