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IREN Limited on July 20 disclosed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts with leading AI developers, raising its year-end 2026 annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to over $4 billion, with appr…
Z.ai, the Beijing-based AI developer formerly known as Zhipu, has completed construction and begun partial operations at a 1-gigawatt data center built exclusively on Chinese-made AI accelerators, Bloomberg reported on J…
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has declined to reopen its April 2026 order requiring data center operators with credit ratings below A-/A3 to post collateral, saddling Oracle with an estimated $7 billion obligat…
Retired US Army General James 'Spider' Marks warns that closed AI systems pose national security risks as China's open-source Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million-token context window, rivals propr…
Cursor, the AI coding company being acquired by SpaceX in a $60 billion all-stock transaction, has launched a CFO Council that will meet quarterly beginning Aug. 18 in San Francisco. New members include CFOs from Natera,…
Infosys trimmed its full-year revenue growth forecast from 3.5% to 3% after reporting $5.08 billion in Q1 FY27 revenue, signaling that enterprise clients are reallocating budgets from traditional outsourcing to AI and da…
Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old cofounder of Chinese AI firm Moonshot AI, was dubbed a 'millennial genius' after the launch of his Kimi K3 model this month, which rivals leading systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. According …
The US Treasury is threatening to sanction Chinese AI companies after Treasury secretary Scott Bessent accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic's Fable model. Meanwhile, the OpenAI hack is described as the sca…
Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing unveiled the GD01, the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot, standing 9 ft. tall and weighing half a ton, capable of carrying a human pilot and walking on …
Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics company Atoms raised $1.7 billion in equity funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, K5 Global, SV Angel, Alpha Square Group, and Uber participat…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab founded by Liang Wenfeng, is raising roughly $10 billion at a $45 billion valuation from China's state AI fund and High-Flyer, with the founder stating the company prioritizes artificial gene…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pushed Prime Video chief Mike Hopkins to overhaul the streaming service with artificial intelligence at its core, according to four people with direct knowledge. The project, internally call…
Advanced Micro Devices will unveil a next-generation AI infrastructure lineup Thursday in San Francisco, including the Venice CPU and Helios server rack, directly targeting Nvidia's data center dominance. AMD announced a…
Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos is pushing an AI-first redesign of Prime Video, known internally as Lighthouse, that would rebuild the home screen around machine-generated recommendations and reduce fixed premium pl…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based developer of the Kimi chatbot, is reportedly preparing a Hong Kong IPO within six months after closing a funding round valuing the startup at over $30 billion, while DeepSeek, China's most …
AI companies have accumulated significant hidden debt, according to a discussion between Ed Elson and Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter and host of the Better Offline podcast. The conversation explor…
European semiconductor stocks diverged sharply on Thursday, with French materials supplier Soitec surging 23% on booming photonics demand for AI applications, while STMicroelectronics fell 15% on weak quarterly profit an…
Samsung Electronics is in talks to invest up to €1 billion in Mistral AI at a valuation of approximately €20 billion, according to a Financial Times report. The French AI startup, which raised a €1.7 billion Series C at …
OpenAI on July 21 appointed Nubank CEO David Vélez and BNY CEO Robin Vince to the boards of both the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, expanding the board to 10 members as the company moves toward a potential publi…
Chinese open-weight AI models from Kimi, Qwen, DeepSeek and others are competing globally on price, customization and deployment flexibility, prompting U.S. AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to raise national securi…