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Situational Awareness, a hedge fund founded by 24-year-old former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner that focused on artificial intelligence bets, has sold most or all of its public stock portfolio to Ken Griffin's Ci…
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration lacked sufficient evidence to label Anthropic a supply chain risk, undermining the Pentagon's March 2026 ban on the AI company's models. The decision validates Anthropi…
LemonLime co-founder Jordan Zietz apologized on X after his AI startup offered job interviews to people who got tattoos at a company party, sparking backlash for tying permanent tattoos to hiring. Zietz said the company …
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Capital, an AI-focused hedge fund that reported a 439% net return through June, was forced to unwind after losses on a highly leveraged portfolio triggered mounting margin pr…
Encore AI announced a $30 million Series A on July 29 led by Team8, Planven, and The Garage, with participation from Lukatz and several bank and insurer customers, to expand its enterprise customer-interaction platform t…
Dili raised $21.7 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz and other enterprise backers, to develop compliance solutions for AI infrastructure deployment. The funding signals gr…
Avi Schiffmann's AI wearable Friend returns as Friend 2.0 with a built-in speaker and voice, priced at $249, up from $99 at launch two years ago. The device, marketed as a companion to combat loneliness, now projects a u…
Nous Research opened a 48-hour preview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model to paid Nous Portal subscribers through Hermes Agent on Thursday, July 30th, according to a post on X. The preview, which in…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness has been unwound after significant losses during the recent AI stock crash, with Citadel picking up most of its stock holdings. Aschenbrenner was forced to sell at…
Ryan Williams publicly detailed Ellis, an AI operations platform that reconciles scattered records behind private credit funds, following an $11 million seed round led by First Round in April 2026. Williams founded Ellis…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's $24 billion AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness sold off the bulk of its public equities to Ken Griffin's $71 billion Citadel fund after suffering massive losses on AI and software stocks,…
Gradium, the voice AI developer led by CEO Neil Zeghidour, opened a public beta on July 30th for a text-to-speech model designed to pronounce phone numbers, email addresses, IBANs and time expressions without preprocessi…
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C funding at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures with participation from NVIDIA and others, as the company reported annual bookings exceeding $1.15 billion and cust…
Meta Platforms and Microsoft reported sharply contrasting earnings, with Microsoft's stock rising 8% on $90 billion in quarterly revenue and a 123% jump in its Azure AI business to a $37 billion annual run rate, while Me…
Andrew Ho, a researcher who left OpenAI on July 29 after eight months, warned former colleagues to cash out via tender offers, predicting OpenAI's valuation could drop 50% after its IPO. Ho is founding a startup to sell …
Y Combinator startup LemonLime offered job interviews to candidates who got a tattoo at a party, with co-founder Jordan Zietz saying the company wants employees 'just as crazy as we are.' Seven people received tattoos, b…
Oracle's stock surged over 8% on July 30, 2026, after the company expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to embed Google's Gemini AI models into Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications and Oracle NetSuite. The integration a…
Amazon Web Services has hired an executive from Apple to lead its AI product initiatives, signaling an aggressive push to build AI leadership amid intensifying competition for top tech talent. The move underscores AWS's …
Andi Peng left humans& on July 29th, roughly six months after the frontier AI lab emerged with a $480 million seed round and a $4.48 billion valuation. Peng co-founded humans& with Eric Zelikman, Yuchen He, Georges Harik…
Airlines from Delta to Virgin Atlantic are adopting AI-powered pricing models that shrink the gap between cheap and expensive seats, leading to higher fares on busy routes, according to Bloomberg. The tools, developed by…