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Nadia Carlsten, former AWS executive, became CEO of Smartbird (formerly Allbirds) after the company pivoted to AI infrastructure, selling its shoe business for $43 million and raising $100 million. Smartbird aims to prov…
Amazon is in talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to other companies for use in their data centers, following Google's similar move with its TPUs. CEO Andy Jassy signaled the plan in April, noting the in-house ch…
ThoughtSapien, an AI tutor that teaches through structured lessons, was launched on Hacker News. The platform calibrates to users' levels and goals, generates personalized learning paths, and provides interactive visuals…
AI startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a mathematical bottleneck in large language models, enabling faster and cheaper computation, though experts remain skeptical. Meanwhile, brain-computer interface trials are a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman expressed zero excitement about leading a public company, but the AI firm has filed confidential paperwork for an IPO amid a wave of tech companies going public. The move aims to raise capital for c…
The Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, launched Thursday with $5 million to support AI regulation, countering the $100 million war chest of pro-AI group Leading the Future. The grou…
Subquadratic founders Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon released third-party benchmarks from Appen to support their claim that SubQ, a sparse-attention LLM, outperforms dense transformers on long-context tasks. The startup f…
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Alibaba.com reported that 71% of applicants to its CoCreate Pitch competition are solo founders, up from 40% last year, with 89% of them citing AI tools as essential for filling capability gaps in industrial design, codi…
Andera, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners to automate internal audit using AI. The platform uses large language models to read financial ev…
Baran Ozkan spent 15 months searching for compliance software that didn't exist, so he built Flagright, an AI operating system for financial-crime compliance. The startup has raised $12.5 million in Series A funding led …
VivaTech's 10th edition in Paris drew 200,000 visitors and featured Jeff Bezos advocating for moving heavy industry to space, while Indian PM Modi and French President Macron highlighted AI cooperation. The festival focu…
General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed Chinese AI firms to r…
Miami-based AI startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a mathematical bottleneck limiting large language models, introducing SubQ, a faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient model that processes up to 12 times more …
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, after being rejected by 180 investors during Y Combinator. The company uses its own in-house voice models and handles over 3…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign nationals from its most capable AI model, Mythos, forcing the company to pull the model and its sibling Fable 5 offline for all users. The move highlights t…
Higgsfield launched Supercomputer 2.0, an enterprise marketing automation agent built on NVIDIA’s Agent Toolkit, claiming 78% of Fortune 500 companies use its platform. The AI video startup says the system can run entire…
Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg said the legal AI startup's monthly token usage surged from 1 trillion in January to 12-13 trillion in May, reflecting explosive demand for its AI document tools. Weinberg warned that companie…
Infineon Technologies is increasing AI-related investment to €2.7 billion this fiscal year, up from a prior €2.2 billion, and projects data center revenue to rise from €1.5 billion in fiscal 2026 to €2.5 billion in 2027.…
OpenAI and Anthropic have become the hottest career destinations in Silicon Valley, drawing a flood of applicants eager to work at the epicenter of the AI boom. Workers are chasing prestige, the chance to shape a technol…