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Nobel laureate John Jumper announced Friday he is leaving Google DeepMind for rival AI startup Anthropic after nearly nine years. Jumper, who shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, will join …
Sarvam AI raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, becoming India's newest unicorn as sovereign AI moves from slogan to necessity after US restrictions on Anthropic models highlighted foreign dependency risks. Th…
Bitdeer Technologies sold all 3,231 BTC it held since February 2026, generating over $205 million to fund a pivot into AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. The Singapore-based miner now holds zero Bitcoin, u…
A startup called 'Now & Here' launched an Android app three months ago that lets users request near-real-time video of any location and pays nearby people to record it, aiming to solve the trust problem with outdated or …
IREN Limited reported AI revenue surged 839% year-over-year to $33.6 million in Q3 2026, now 23% of total revenue, and secured a five-year, $3.4 billion cloud services deal with NVIDIA. The company increased secured powe…
Claude Guillemot, a founder of Ubisoft, the company behind Assassin's Creed, was killed in a plane crash in western France on Friday evening. The twin-motor Cessna 421 carrying Guillemot and a flight instructor crashed n…
Sponja cofounder Roee Tsur used three Apify Actors to build a data pipeline that found 897 US B2B companies advertising webinars on LinkedIn, identified 244 likely webinar owners by name and title, and surfaced the top m…
Biwei Huang's Aether AI raised $20 million in seed funding on June 17 to develop causal world models for robots, aiming to enable machines to reason about cause and effect rather than just correlations. The San Diego-lin…
Donald Trump's investment portfolio includes an overlooked AI stock that could rival SpaceX, according to a new analysis. The stock, not named in the headline, is part of Trump's holdings and may offer significant growth…
Elon Musk's xAI plans to produce a full-length AI-generated movie by the end of 2026, starting with an Alice in Wonderland demo. The company's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model, launched in June 2026, can generate 720p video …
A wave of well-funded startups including Starcloud, Cowboy Space, and Orbital is racing to build AI data centers in low Earth orbit, aiming to solve AI's energy crisis with solar-powered compute clusters. However, launch…
Seeking Alpha rates SharonAI Holdings (NASDAQ:SHAZ) a Hold, citing a $2.2 billion contract backlog that has not yet converted to meaningful revenue. The company faces uncertainty over a $1.6 billion capital raise and has…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day saw investors gravitating toward startups that turn AI into durable control systems for defense, agent infrastructure, and healthcare, with some companies commanding valuations over $1…
Equity grants at SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI have turned into life-changing sums for engineers, with some grants now valued at over $50 million. The windfalls depend on vesting, dilution, and lockups, but highlight the…
Fosbury, a new AI marketing tool, lets users drop a URL to automatically test ad channels, cut underperforming ones, and allocate budget only to those driving signups. The tool generates launch content for Reddit, X, and…
BoolSi, a startup founded by a former chip designer, has raised $6M to build a compiler that converts software hotspots into custom hardware accelerators for FPGAs. The tool uses machine learning to learn a program's beh…
Nathan Bennett sought advice from his 91-year-old grandfather Michael before co-founding fintech startup Crux Analytics with his brother Jacob. Michael, who has worked with his own brother Maurice for over 70 years, advi…
A venture capital firm's blog highlights the growing gap between AI development and go-to-market execution, exploring tensions between foundation model and application companies, the challenges of model degradation, and …
Elon Musk acquired an autonomous coding startup amid concerns that China is outpacing the US in artificial intelligence. The move underscores the intensifying global AI race and Musk's strategic push to bolster AI capabi…
SpaceX shares plunged over 6% on Thursday, erasing $620 billion in market value after the company announced a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, sparking analyst concerns over dilution. The se…