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Buyout groups are seeking software bargains after a downturn in the sector dubbed the 'SaaS-pocalypse', with Francisco Partners co-founder Dipanjan 'DJ' Deb asserting that AI will not kill the software industry as the fi…
On July 16, 2026, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts model developed in Beijing, jumped from 18th to first place on a top coding leaderboard, surpassing Anthropic's Claude and signaling a …
Elon Musk hinted at a potential merger between SpaceX and Tesla during Tesla's earnings call on Wednesday, raising analysts' expectations to a 90% probability according to Deepwater's Gene Munster. Musk cited growing col…
Speak is doubling down on South Korea as the launchpad for its AI-powered English learning platform, with the country serving as its most strategically important market and a proving ground for global expansion, accordin…
Alphabet's second-quarter earnings reveal a company split in two: Google Cloud revenue beat Wall Street forecasts by roughly 10% with operating profit exceeding estimates by 26%, while the services segment, including Sea…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng said during a 4-hour investor meeting that the company's sole focus is achieving AGI, rejecting pursuits such as 3D/video generation, world models, and super apps. He emphasized that restra…
OpenAI launched Presence on July 22, an enterprise platform for deploying AI voice and chat agents that resolved 75% of inbound calls on OpenAI's own support line without human intervention. The platform, which is not se…
Khosla Ventures is in talks to raise $5.5 billion across new funds, nearly double the $3.5 billion it sought in February 2025, according to Bloomberg. The Menlo Park firm, led by Vinod Khosla, is doubling down on AI inve…
The Trump administration is exploring restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, but the policy risk is hitting US startups hardest because the models are already downloadable, cop…
Chinese AI startup PsiBot, also known as Lingchu Intelligence, is raising close to US$100 million at a US$1.48 billion valuation, making it one of the few unicorns in embodied AI and world models. The funding round is le…
Darren Aronofsky's AI film studio Primordial Soup has raised $11 million of a planned $15 million equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company, co-founded by Aronofsky and producer Dylan Golden, previously relea…
XAI is developing functionality for Grok Build that would let users deploy, host, and publicly share apps with custom domains, mirroring Google AI Studio's build-and-publish flow. The feature, which has no timeline yet, …
Alphabet Inc. reported second-quarter earnings of $2.85 per share, missing the $2.89 analyst estimate, while revenue jumped 24% to $119.8 billion, beating the $116.93 billion forecast. The company's stock fell over 2% in…
Harbor Capital has coined the term "Memi" (memory semiconductors) to describe a new $3 trillion sector dominated by Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung, which are essential to AI infrastructure due to high-bandwidth memory (HB…
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Chinese startup Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 model is 'pretty good' but said it is 'too early' to tell whether the company illicitly distilled OpenAI's technology. A White Ho…
Physical AI is emerging as AMD Ventures' next major focus beyond the data center, according to Sagi Paz, head of AMD Ventures at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Paz said the firm is targeting industrial robotics and embedded…
Alphabet reported Q2 revenue of $119.8 billion, up 24% year over year, as Google Cloud revenue surged 82% to $24.8 billion and the Gemini app reached 950 million monthly active users, closing in on ChatGPT's 1 billion. T…
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, in a deal that includes Anthropic deploying up to two gigawatts of AMD's top-end AI chips starting in the first half of 2027, directly challenging…
AI has made founding a software startup easier, but Cut Through Venture's Australian Startup Funding Report for Q2 2026 shows early-stage dealflow hit a record low, with just 31 sub-$5 million rounds announced, a 44% dro…
Amazon cut jobs inside its artificial general intelligence group on July 22, 2026, while AWS committed $1 billion to its Forward Deployed Engineering program, signaling a strategic shift from model research to customer d…