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Bodhium Labs outlines five strategies for improving AI visibility without harming SEO, emphasizing measurement, content quality, and third-party validation over high-volume AI content generation. The applied AI lab advis…
Hyperscale Data, an NYSE American-listed firm trading under GPUS, sold 100 Bitcoin from its corporate treasury on July 30, 2026, to fund construction and infrastructure development at its AI data center campus in Michiga…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees on July 29 that annualized recurring revenue in July exceeded the entire second quarter, according to CNBC, but the company did not disclose a dollar figure or define the metric, mak…
Switzerland has become the world's top hub for AI talent per capita, with more than 110 AI researchers per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the 2026 Stanford AI Index Report. OpenAI, Anthropic, Jeff Bezos's Prometheus v…
Eliyan, a Santa Clara startup, achieved unicorn status with a $1bn valuation after closing an oversubscribed $145m Series C round led by Seligman Ventures, with strategic investments from Cisco Investments and Lumentum. …
The European Union has launched a call for seven AI gigafactories—massive compute clusters designed to train frontier models—managed through the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, aiming to close the compute gap with the US and …
The European Union is offering €10 billion to build seven AI gigafactories across the bloc, aiming to close the infrastructure gap with the US and China. The plan merges two earlier programs—EuroHPC's AI Factories and th…
LinkedIn will not expand its data centers in the next fiscal year, keeping GPU investment and compute/storage footprint flat, executives told WIRED. The professional social network with over 1.3 billion users achieved ef…
Marvell Technology, the fabless semiconductor firm, plans to invest $250 million in India to expand its sites in Bangalore and Hyderabad and double its headcount over three years, focusing on AI, cloud, and data infrastr…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirmed the company is building 'a family of devices' that will arrive 'soon,' centered on voice interaction with ChatGPT rather than typing. Brockman dismissed Apple's trade-secrets laws…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3 in mid-July 2026, an open-weight large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters that achieved the highest score on a popular front-end web codin…
Intropy, an AI software startup for spare-parts businesses, raised an $11 million seed round led by Felix Capital with participation from Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, and firstminute capital, targeting US expansion. …
OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced the company is building a 'family of devices' for ChatGPT that will be voice-first and designed for natural, conversational AI interactions. The devices aim to move beyond typing …
Chinese AI labs have released three models nearly as powerful as America's frontier systems at radically lower costs, threatening the expected hyper-profitability of U.S. labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, which capital mar…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft's Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model via OpenAI-compatible APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 ope…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek finalized V4, and Moonshot AI published the open-weight Kimi K3 (2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model) during the biggest AI release week of 2026, fundamentally reshaping the coding…
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion funding round at a $35 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company's annual recurring revenue rose from $100 million in March to $300 million in June, and it…
India's plan to acquire a 1-2% equity stake in AI startup Sarvam under the IndiaAI mission, linked to a subsidy covering 40% of a Rs 246.71 crore compute bill for Nvidia GPUs, has raised fair competition concerns. Critic…
Encore AI, still listed in public records as Insait IO, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, Planven, The Garage, and Lukatz, according to a report that could not be independently confirmed. The compa…
ByteDance has restructured its AI operations by merging the product teams behind its Doubao AI assistant and Feishu collaboration platform, creating a new Doubao product organization and a Creativity Service Platform for…