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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…
Elon Musk announced plans to produce an AI-generated film adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey using his xAI company's Grok Imagine tool, challenging Christopher Nolan's blockbuster version which he accused of historical in…
Infosys Ltd. cut the upper end of its sales growth outlook to 1.5%-3% for the fiscal year through March 2027, down from 1.5%-3.5%, as global clients slow technology spending amid elevated interest rates and geopolitical …
AMD will host its annual Advancing AI keynote on July 23 at 9:30 AM PT, led by CEO Dr. Lisa Su, with expected announcements including the Instinct MI450 accelerator family and details on the Helios rack-scale AI platform…
Restricting open-weight AI models, particularly high-performing ones from China, harms innovation by limiting developers' ability to customize, fine-tune, and optimize for specific hardware, according to a letter publish…
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey has launched Buzz, a rival to workplace messaging app Slack that treats AI agents as equal team members. Built by Dorsey's fintech company Block, the open-source, decentralized platform allows…
Alphabet and Tesla beat revenue expectations but saw shares fall in after-hours trading after both companies signaled another year of heavy AI infrastructure spending. Alphabet raised its full-year capital expenditure fo…
Anthropic is preparing to ship Claude Opus 5, with evidence including a brief appearance in a coding tool's model picker and a matching model string on Google's Vertex quotas catalog, signaling a potential rollout this w…
IBS Group launched Naviq Technology on July 9 as an independent AI company for the global travel industry, with plans to invest $500 million over five years and grow to more than 5,000 employees. The company began with 1…
Google's profits quadrupled to $112 billion in the latest quarter, driven by AI investments, CEO Sundar Pichai said. The company's total revenue hit $119 billion, up 24% year-over-year, with its cloud business generating…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing an optimistic vision for AI as the company plans to spend up to $145 billion on capital expenditures by 2026, a move that drove Meta's stock up 6% on July 10 and 15% for the week. Zuck…
Shares of Alphabet and Tesla fell in premarket trading on July 23 after both companies signaled larger-than-expected AI infrastructure spending, with Alphabet dropping more than 4% and Tesla sliding nearly 3%. Alphabet r…
Advanced Micro Devices is set to launch a raft of AI hardware on Thursday in San Francisco to challenge Nvidia, including its first-generation Helios server racks and Venice central processing unit for data centers. AMD …
Chinese tech firms are expanding globally across AI software and hardware, with Shanghai-based AI lab MiniMax generating 73% of its 2025 revenue outside mainland China, up from US$21.3 million to US$57.7 million, and its…
Travis Kalanick's industrial AI company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion, with autonomous mining trucks already surpassing human productivity and delivering 20–40% yield gains for customers like Vale. Kalanick argues the bi…
Microsoft will fund Mistral's European AI expansion in a multibillion-dollar deal, the companies announced on July 21, 2026. The investment aims to accelerate Mistral's development of large language models and expand its…
OpenAI hired Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig to lead product for its legal vertical, a move Boehmig announced on June 1. The appointment signals OpenAI's deeper interest in legal workflows, though no product name, rele…
Millennium Management has launched a dedicated AI track for summer interns, designating them as "change agents" to drive internal transformation, said Mallory Triano, the hedge fund's global head of campus recruiting. Th…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors the Chinese AI startup prioritizes artificial general intelligence over profit and will likely keep its top models open-source, Yicai reported. The company recently completed…
Alphabet lifted its full-year capital-expenditure guidance to as much as $205bn, up from a prior range of $180bn to $190bn, as Google Cloud revenue jumped 82% to $24.8bn in the second quarter. The company reported total …