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HireQuotient announced an integration with Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY) that brings AI-powered candidate sourcing and screening to Paylocity customers in frontline industries such as manufacturing, building services, constru…
A consortium including the AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners closed the largest data-centre acquisition on record, buying Aligned Data Centers for about $40 billion, then …
London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, pushing its valuation above $1 billion and making it Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. Bosch's rob…
Microsoft and Mistral have deepened their partnership with a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on enterprise AI infrastructure, deliberately building an AI stack the company does not fully own. The deal aims to provi…
Corner, a social-mapping startup targeting Gen Z users, has raised new funding to bring its total to $7.5 million, nearly doubling its previous $3.75 million raised in 2025. The New York-based company, which has over 250…
American open-source AI labs, including startups Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, and Poolside, are attempting to challenge the dominance of Chinese open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, according to a Forbes repor…
Bloomy, an AI tutor and curriculum for K-12 students that has doubled ARR every two weeks since June, is hiring a founding engineer. The YC S26 startup's student users learn approximately 2x faster in early pilots, and t…
Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, advocates for 'napkin math'—quick back-of-the-envelope calculations to identify performance and cost inefficiencies in software systems. Speaking at the AI Engineer's W…
China-based AI firm Moonshot is seeking a $50 billion valuation in a new fundraising round ahead of a potential Hong Kong initial public offering later this year, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company, founde…
Gumroad founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia shared data showing the company's human payroll fell to $43,000 in June 2026, matching its AI token spend of $43,000 for the first time. Human payroll dropped from $419,000 in June …
OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 with pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, achieving 750 tokens per second, marking the third major price drop from a frontier lab in 12 months. The announcemen…
Halliday announced its G2 AI smart glasses on Tuesday, pivoting from a general consumer audience to focus on working professionals with a new Meeting Flow feature for live captions, translations, transcripts, and summari…
Microsoft Corp. and French AI startup Mistral AI announced a multibillion-dollar partnership on Tuesday to scale European cloud infrastructure and integrate Mistral's models across Microsoft's products. The deal addresse…
London-based AI and robotics firm Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd.) raised $152 million in funding at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. The round was led by Pri…
Biotech IPOs have taken the lead in the 2026 US IPO market with a 55% weighted average gain, outperforming the broader market's 4.4% loss and overshadowing AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI. The market for Anthropic's I…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI Pte Ltd. released its Kimi K3 model last Friday, claiming it is the world's largest open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and outperforms U.S. rivals on certain benchmarks, signaling …
Overroute publicly debuted its AI-native freight execution platform for enterprise carriers on Tuesday, following a co-design with J.B. Hunt Transport Services. The platform aims to streamline freight operations for larg…
More than 100 Y Combinator startups are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers, up from nearly zero three years ago, according to a new guide based on Bob McGrew's 51-minute breakdown of the model he ran as Palantir's head of…
SK Hynix now generates 65% of its revenue from the United States, driven by AI infrastructure demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips, not crypto mining. The South Korean chipmaker posted 97.1 trillion won ($64.1 bill…
Certinia, an AI-powered professional services automation provider, has acquired Moonnox, an AI-native automation platform, to extend its system of action Veda with a new suite of AI agents that automate administration, p…