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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…
Space companies are exploring orbital data centers to address rising AI compute demand, power constraints, and resilience needs. These platforms could support secure storage, AI processing, and disaster recovery, adding …
A discussion on Hacker News questions whether the trillions of dollars invested in AI since 2022 are primarily aimed at improving customer service efficiency and cost savings, noting that venture-scale returns may be elu…
NYU Stern professor Aswath Damodaran warned that fast-tracking SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic into the S&P 500 overlooks their financial losses and founder-controlled governance, posing risks for passive investors. S&P Do…
SpaceX's June 12 IPO left a record $16.7 billion on the table, nearly triple the previous record, as shares rose 19% on the first day. The foregone capital could have funded the company's AI growth engine, highlighting a…
Four AI giants—OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo—raised $188 billion in Q1 2026, accounting for 60% of all venture capital deployed that quarter. The concentration of capital is reshaping early-stage fundraising, but sma…
Chinese AI developers are accelerating development of trillion-parameter foundation models to narrow the gap with US rivals, as Washington imposes export controls on leading US AI software. DeepSeek launched its first tr…
A developer outlines the repetitive infrastructure—auth, billing, AI features, and deployment—required for every AI SaaS product, arguing that the real challenge is turning an AI API call into a monetizable product. The …
Generative AI startups like Replit are using influencer-driven TikTok ads to sell false hope to young people, promising easy wealth through AI-powered app creation. This mirrors the predatory tactics of multi-level marke…
LG CNS and Doosan Corp. signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to form a broad technology alliance spanning agentic AI, robotics, data centers, and cloud computing. The partnership aims to combine LG CNS's digital…
Barret Zoph, OpenAI's head of enterprise AI sales, has left the company just five months after returning. He rejoined in January after a brief stint at Thinking Machines Lab, a competitor founded by former OpenAI CTO Mir…
Amazon is exploring selling its custom Trainium AI chips to third-party data centres, according to Bloomberg and TechCrunch. AWS AI chief Peter DeSantis confirmed early-stage talks, noting that external sales would not h…
Snap spun off its AI video team into a new company called Dotmo due to high costs, signaling that video generation remains the most expensive AI task. The move highlights the financial burden of AI video development, whi…
Flourish Labs has secured $500 million in funding to develop a new approach to artificial intelligence based on neuroscience principles. The company aims to reinvent AI by leveraging insights from brain function, potenti…
Xnovelist, a free and open-source novel-writing tool, launches as a local-first alternative to subscription-based AI writing services like Sudowrite and NovelAI. The app runs entirely in the user's browser with no backen…
L'Oréal announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate generative AI into its CreAItech marketing production system and product discovery, with subsidiary Maybelline set to embed its virtual try-on app into ChatGPT. Th…
FLIP TABLE 2026, a mini-hackathon for unconventional databases, took place on May 17, 2026 at Hex House in Brooklyn, featuring projects like a hair-based database and a Strava GPS data store. Winners included 'secret non…
Stanford University's CS 153: Frontier Systems course for Spring 2026 features a lineup of industry leaders including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella, with a focus on building a one-person frontier lab. The c…