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SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin replaced a $4,000/year newsletter tool with a custom AI-powered version built in two hours using Replit and Claude, saving his chief AI officer 90 minutes weekly. Lemkin argues that point solution…
BinSentry, a Kitchener, Ont.-based AgTech company, now monitors more than 65,000 animal feed bins in real time across North America and Brazil, up from 4,500 bins four years ago, after recording 100 percent year-over-yea…
Morgan Stanley analyst Stephen Byrd initiated coverage of Applied Digital (APLD) on July 23 with an Equal Weight rating and a $36.50 price target, citing fair value in the former Bitcoin miner's pivot to AI data centers.…
Stripe is reportedly acquiring OpenRouter for $10 billion, a move that would combine a unified API key for AI agents with a global payment rail, enabling developers to manage token costs as native line items in business …
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that former Apple employees targeted confidential information during job interviews and downloaded hardware manufacturing files. The case poses a serious threa…
Science Corp will begin selling its Prima retina implant in Europe after earning a CE mark from DEKRA, clearing the device for sale across 30 countries. The chip, which restores sight in patients with geographic atrophy …
Chinese robotics startup Psibot (Lingchu Intelligence) is close to raising nearly $100 million at a $1.48 billion valuation, led by carmaker Chery and sensor maker Lens Technology, Bloomberg reported. Founded in 2024, th…
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude model, is considering making 10b5-1 trading plans mandatory for all employees as it prepares for an IPO. The company confidentially submitted a Form S-1 to the SEC around June …
Alphabet posted negative free cash flow of $5.855 billion in Q2 2026 despite a 24% year-on-year revenue increase to roughly $120 billion, driven by $44.9 billion in capital expenditure—nearly double last year's $22.4 bil…
Khosla Ventures, the first outside investor in OpenAI, is in talks to raise up to $5.5 billion across a new set of funds, according to Bloomberg. The record raise would allocate about $1 billion for seed-stage startups, …
Mobileye founder Amnon Shashua is stepping down as CEO, ending an era for the autonomous driving company that Intel acquired for $15.3 billion in 2017. The planned leadership transition, announced July 23, comes after Sh…
Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi K3 model on July 23 erased $314 billion in combined implied valuation from OpenAI and Anthropic, with Anthropic dropping $232 billion (7.31%) and OpenAI shedding $82 billion (5.62%). The …
Cursor, the AI coding platform being acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion, expanded its CFO council on July 23, 2026, adding finance chiefs from Natera, Payoneer, JFrog, Amplitude, First American Bank, and Firstsource to b…
Abstract Security Inc., a composable security operations startup, raised a $25 million Series A extension to expand in-stream threat detection and integrate artificial intelligence deeper into security workflows, as annu…
Singapore-based robotics data infrastructure firm Ropedia Pte. Ltd. announced it raised $22 million in Pre-Series A funding to scale real-world, multimodal interaction data collection for embodied AI and physical AI mode…
Shanghai will launch dedicated funds for 'choke point' technologies and relax pre-profit listing rules for AI and nuclear fusion startups on the Star Market, according to a government document released Thursday. The city…
Cloudflare and Block beat earnings guidance and raised outlooks while cutting thousands of jobs, with CEO Matthew Prince explaining that 'the way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed.' AI-native companies like…
Monday.com laid off about 20% of its workforce, or over 600 employees, as part of a restructuring plan to invest in an AI-driven growth strategy, the Tel Aviv-based company announced in a July 22 SEC filing. The work man…
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of using distillation techniques to copy Anthropic PBC's Fable model for its Kimi K3 open-weights model…
SpaceXAI is scouting sites in Austin, Bastrop, and Conroe, Texas for a gigawatt-scale AI data center campus that would match or exceed its Memphis Colossus complex, which houses roughly 555,000 Nvidia GPUs across approxi…