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A tiny AI stock is delivering a 600% return on marketing spend for its customers, according to the company's claims. The unnamed firm's AI-powered platform helps businesses optimize advertising campaigns, driving signifi…
AMD will invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic equity and supply up to 2 gigawatts of Instinct MI455X GPUs for deployment starting in the first half of 2027, the companies announced July 22. The deal, which lacks the equi…
Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multi-billion-dollar agreement for Microsoft to rent AI computing capacity from Mistral's European data centers in France and Sweden, giving Azure customers a European-hosted alternat…
OpenAI launched Presence, an enterprise AI agent platform for deploying voice and chat agents across customer support, sales, IT, and HR workflows, resolving 75% of its own English-language phone support calls without hu…
Liquidnitro Games has hired former Tencent Games Global CTO Cedric Collomb as its new CTO, shortly after closing a $19.1 million Series A round that brings total funding to $24.3 million. Collomb, who previously served a…
Google faces criticism from rivals after delaying its next frontier AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro, while rolling out three faster, cheaper models. Meta's chief AI officer Alexandr Wang posted 'gemini who?' on X, and OpenAI's …
Arrakis, a London and Paris startup building an AI operating system for industrial companies, emerged from stealth with $38 million in total funding and a thesis that the biggest AI returns will come from factories and s…
Samsung launched three foldable smartphones simultaneously for the first time at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, unveiling the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8, all shipping August 7. The…
The tiny Caribbean nation of Anguilla is earning millions of dollars annually from the booming demand for '.ai' domain names, driven by the global surge in artificial intelligence companies and startups. The country's re…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the inaugural cohort of 65 Forward Deployed Engineer Fellows, an 8-week program for engineers deploying AI in enterprises, with fellows from companies including OpenAI, Mistral, Cogni…
Alibaba Cloud announced on July 18 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference three new products for AI agent infrastructure: AgentRun for lifecycle management, AgentTeams for multi-agent orchestration, and AgentLoo…
Apple stock has gained 20.3% this year, far outpacing the S&P 500's 9.7% advance, but AlphaSpace valuation metrics show the stock trading at premium multiples well above its 10-year averages, including a forward P/E of 3…
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Requests for Startups signals a shift away from funding AI copilots and tools that help people do their jobs, which the accelerator says most startups from 2023 to 2025 built. Instead, YC is no…
Monday.com is cutting about 620 jobs, roughly 20% of its workforce, while raising its full-year non-GAAP operating margin outlook to about 15% from 13%, as the company restructures around its AI Work Platform. The compan…
AMD is investing up to $5 billion in Anthropic, the developer of the Claude AI model, in a deal that will see Anthropic deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's MI450 GPUs for training and inference. The investment marks AMD's …
Meshy, a text-to-3D startup, raised nearly $400 million in a Series B round on July 21, 2026, reaching a $1.5 billion valuation, the largest funding round ever for an AI-3D company. The round was led by IDG Capital, Matr…
Brothers Justin and Michael Blau have launched Drip, a platform that enables AI agents to pay content creators via USDC micropayments on Base and Tempo networks, aiming to complement rather than replace subscription mode…
Meta Platforms is in early-stage talks with Anthropic for a potential $10 billion deal that would allow Anthropic to lease Meta's computing capacity over two years, aiming to boost Meta's cloud services presence. The arr…
Astera Labs (ALAB) shares surged as the company benefits from accelerating AI infrastructure spending. The semiconductor firm's stock rose on investor optimism about demand for its data center connectivity solutions.
U.S. equity sales surpassed $300 billion in 2026, driven by a $85 billion equity raise from Alphabet and a $75 billion IPO from SpaceX, the largest IPO by proceeds. The surge reflects an AI boom, with 80% of global ventu…