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Lingverse (formerly Ling AI) raised $29 million to build iKairos, a wearable AI device that can be worn as a pendant or mounted on a table, claiming to turn real-life moments into AI-generated images. CEO Jiawei Gu says …
Skyfall AI is acquiring early-stage SaaS companies with under $20,000 MRR, founded within the last 24 months, and using self-serve or product-led growth models to replace the CEO with AI agents, offering up to $1 million…
Scape, a desktop email app founded by two 23-year-old Swedes, is opening a waitlist for early access on Thursday after raising $3.2 million from Y Combinator, General Catalyst, FundersClub, and other investors. The app u…
OpenAI, last valued at $852 billion, is moving into legal tech by hiring Ironclad co-founder Jason Boehmig and partnering with law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise. The company aims to show in…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared that 'Japan is Back,' backing a newly formed sovereign AI consortium of 44 Japanese companies called Noestra and positioning Japan's reviving nuclear capacity as a structural advantage fo…
Microsoft released Fara1.5-27B, a vision-only browser agent fine-tuned from Alibaba's Qwen3.5-27B, signaling that US cloud players find Chinese base models strong for specialized research. AMD is investing up to $5 billi…
A structured deliberation among four AI models concluded that AI-native development tools are collapsing the cost of building software toward zero, making execution no longer the primary bottleneck for indie hackers. The…
AMD confirmed a sweeping deal with Anthropic on July 22, 2026, involving up to $5 billion in equity investment from AMD in exchange for Anthropic deploying up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450 Series GPUs, one of the …
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue, according to…
DeepSeek founder Wenfeng Liang told investors in a four-hour meeting that the company's sole focus is achieving AGI, rejecting product-driven profit, closed-source models, and non-core technologies such as 3D, video gene…
ServiceNow Ventures has taken a roughly 5% stake in BusinessNext, an Indian AI banking software company, for $40 million, valuing the Noida-based firm at $700 million. The deal, announced July 22, integrates BusinessNext…
ServiceNow invested $40 million in BusinessNext, an Indian banking software specialist, valuing the 24-year-old company at $700 million and taking a roughly 5% stake. The deal gives BusinessNext access to ServiceNow's gl…
Jen Phan, a former early-stage investor at btov Partners, has raised $15 million for her startup Passionfroot, with backing from Anthropic's investor btov Partners, to build what she describes as AI's distribution layer.
STMicroelectronics reported Q2 2026 revenue guidance of $3.45 billion, up 24.9% year-over-year, driven by a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar commercial agreement with Amazon Web Services that has doubled its data center …
Nokia reported second-quarter revenue of €4.815 billion on July 23, up 8% year-over-year, with comparable operating margin rising to 9.0%, driven by AI and cloud data center demand that more than doubled orders to €2.8 b…
Neolab Laguna released Laguna S 2.1, a model that is cheaper than Deepseek v4 Flash and outperforms V4 Pro, according to a Reddit user cited in the announcement. The model is approximately 10x smaller than Thinking Machi…
Poolside AI co-founder Eiso Kant says the company has built a Model Factory that can take a model from pre-training to release in eight weeks, running 10,000–20,000 experiments per month with fewer than 70 researchers. K…
Berlin-based telli has raised a $15 million seed round to deploy AI agents that automate customer operations, with backing from redalpine, Cherry Ventures, and Y Combinator. Co-founders Finn zur Mühlen and Philipp Bauman…
Moonshot AI's launch of the 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight Kimi K3 model, which performs close to frontier systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, has revived debate over whether China can match U.S. AI performance despit…
Zhang Kun, manager of a US$3.1 billion fund, cut holdings in Kweichow Moutai by 47%, Wuliangye by 71%, Luzhou Laojiao by 52%, and Alibaba by 75% in the second quarter, pivoting to AI-linked stocks like SMIC and Suzhou Do…