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SpaceX has become a $28 billion per year neocloud business through GPU rental deals with AI companies including Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI, according to analyst Jamin Ball. The company's annualized revenue now …
ValkaAI, a Prague-based startup founded in 2026, has raised €12 million in pre-seed funding led by Rockaway Ventures to develop real-time interactive synthetic video technology and lifelike AI personas for entertainment,…
AethexAI, a full-stack voice AI infrastructure startup founded in 2025, emerged from stealth in June 2026 with $3 million in pre-seed funding led by 4DX Ventures. The company builds speech models and agent platforms opti…
Moderne co-founders Jonathan Schneider and Olga Kundzich will present their AI code-migration platform at the Open Source in Finance Forum London on June 25, 2026, pitching a deterministic approach to enterprise code mod…
Oracle disclosed a 21,000-employee workforce reduction over 12 months, citing AI adoption as a factor. Tech layoffs hit a record high in May 2026, with AI being the most-cited reason, as companies like GitLab, Google, In…
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible via a single API, claiming its premium tier Fugu-Ultra matches frontier models like Fable and Mythos on benchmarks. The system uses a trained languag…
Cursor (Anysphere) announced its first self-trained frontier model, Cursor foundation model, will ship within weeks. The model is not yet released, with community guesses averaging July 14, 2026. No benchmark scores or v…
Two top Google AI researchers, Noam Shazeer and John Jumper, left for OpenAI and Anthropic respectively within days, triggering a 5-6% drop in Alphabet shares amid concerns about talent retention and competitive pressure…
Independent evaluation startups fail because talent is better compensated in post-training and application development, the customer base is too narrow, and model optimization pressure renders evals obsolete. The market …
Radical Numerics, an AI lab spun out from Stanford, emerged from stealth with $50 million in seed funding and released Omnii, a genome language model for researchers. The company aims to decode the 'grammar of DNA' to ac…
Elon Musk compared SpaceX to Union Pacific in a recent investor presentation, but the historical railroad company was heavily subsidized by taxpayers and embroiled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, undermining Musk's point…
Insilico Medicine and SK Biopharmaceuticals announced a partnership valued at over $2.5 billion to use AI for developing neuroimmune therapies. Insilico will leverage its Pharma.AI platform for drug discovery, while SK B…
AI chipmaker Groq confirmed a $650 million funding round led by Disruptive and Infinitum, six months after Nvidia signed a non-exclusive licensing deal for its technology and poached key talent including founder Jonathan…
Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source coding assistant and alternative to GitHub Copilot, in a move that consolidates the AI developer tools market. The acquisition brings Continue's open-source platform under Cur…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to integrate its KR1 humanoid robot and physical AI capabilities, completing Bear's end-to-end physical AI robotics platform. The acquisition reunites Bear with co-founder Brennand …
Google's stock fell after top AI scientists defected to OpenAI and Anthropic, raising concerns about talent retention and competitive positioning in the AI race.
AI startup Micro AGI is sending college-educated workers to clean New York City apartments for free under its Shift initiative, capturing video footage to train robots for household chores. The company aims to collect tr…
Paul Bakaus launched Renaissance Geek, the company behind Impeccable, with backing from a16z led by Anish Acharya and a new partnership with GitHub. Impeccable is an open-source design skill for AI coding agents that has…
Micron is investing in Anthropic's Series H round and securing a multi-year deal to supply memory for Claude's infrastructure, aiming to co-design AI memory architecture. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown emphasized memory'…
Open source AI startup Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million per month through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center, in a deal worth up to $6.3 billion. The agreement, one of the …