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Mana Jampala, a 12-year-old founder in British Columbia, launched Voxa, an AI receptionist for small businesses, in November 2025. Voxa handles calls, bookings, orders, and summaries, and Jampala is now seeking its first…
OpenAI, Amazon, and SpaceX are all denying rumors that they are building smartphones, but the denials sound misleading as the tech industry increasingly needs to control its own hardware destiny. Apple and Google current…
A wave of AI startups founded by former hedge funders from firms like Bridgewater, Schonfeld, and Jain Global aims to automate investment research and analysis, potentially replacing human talent. These companies, includ…
John Hu, cofounder of creator monetization platform Stan, used AI-assisted 'vibe coding' to build Stanley, a content creation tool, in 14 days. The tool hit $200,000 in annual recurring revenue within six weeks and cross…
The National Science Foundation has canceled over 1,600 grants and terminated key staff under the Trump administration, undermining the US government's own AI dominance strategy. The cuts have slowed foundational AI rese…
Mana Jampala, a 12-year-old founder in British Columbia, launched Voxa, an AI-powered receptionist that helps small businesses answer calls and manage appointments. The product, built using AI coding tools, is already ha…
SpaceXAI and Cursor are set to launch a jointly-built AI model as soon as Wednesday, with a focus on efficiency over capability. The model, which was delayed to improve performance, is expected to be competitive with Ant…
AI model distillation, a technique that trains models using outputs from other AI systems, is threatening the profitability of major US AI companies by enabling rivals to replicate expensive frontier systems cheaply. Ant…
Stilta, an AI-powered patent analysis startup founded by former McKinsey consultants Oskar Block and Oscar Adamsson, raised a $10.5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. The company helps businesses detect and f…
Mark Cuban said at a Paris conference that AI coding platforms like Lovable and Replit have localized data and add-on services that protect them from being replaced by large AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Cuban, a…
A developer spent three weeks comparing AI API prices and found that the cheapest viable models are Apache 2.0 and MIT licensed models from China, not the well-known proprietary names. The analysis revealed a huge price …
Amazon returned to the bond market with a $25bn+ debt sale, its largest of the year, to fund AI infrastructure including data centers and custom Trainium chips. The offering, split across eight tranches with maturities u…
Cursor field CTO David Pan declared the end of Jeff Bezos' 'two-pizza rule' for team sizes, arguing that in the AI era teams have become so small that two pizzas are too much. Pan's comments on X sparked debate over new …
French startup ZML announced a partnership with Scaleway, VSORA, and the Île-de-France region at VivaTech to build a European AI stack independent of Nvidia. ZML's open-source inference software compiles AI models to run…
French startup ZML released ZML/LLMD v2, a free open-source inference server that runs AI models across any hardware platform without code changes, aiming to break NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in. Endorsed by Yann LeCun, the softw…
Techstars and Emirates NBD announced a strategic partnership on July 6th to accelerate enterprise-grade AI and fintech solutions across the Middle East, North Africa, and Turkiye. The 'Acceleration-to-Enterprise' model g…
French AI startup ZML released a free inference server, ZML/LLMD, that enables open-source large language models to run at peak performance across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU, Apple Metal, and I…
Circeus has acquired Encodian to strengthen its position in AI-powered document automation, targeting enterprise customers seeking to streamline document generation, data extraction, and workflow management.
Chinese AI startup Deepseek is developing its own AI chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei, boosting Hong Kong stocks. The Hang Seng Index rose nearly 3% and the Hang Seng Tech Index surged up to 4.8%, with Aliba…
SambaNova announced a $1 billion Series F first close on July 8, 2026, at an $11 billion post-money valuation, led by General Atlantic with participation from Seligman Ventures, T. Rowe Price, and Capital Group. The AI-i…