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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…
Nvidia's latest AI GPU designs are now shipping to customers, and the company holds an estimated 80-81% share of the data-center AI GPU market, according to IDC data. The Rubin platform entered full production in early 2…
Microsoft and Mistral have expanded their strategic partnership with a multi-billion-dollar deal to build AI infrastructure across Europe, adding thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs. Mistral's Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 models…
Alphabet's Google on Tuesday released three cheaper versions of its Gemini AI model—Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber—but provided no timing update for the flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro, which…
Google announced three new Gemini models on Tuesday, including 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, emphasizing speed and cost efficiency over raw power. The company said Gemini 3.5 Pro, originally promised fo…
Nvidia is touting performance gains for its Vera Rubin platform ahead of AMD's Advancing AI conference, with CoreWeave seeing 10 times more tokens per watt running DeepSeek's R1 model compared to the prior-generation Gra…
Applied Intuition cofounders Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig argue that physical AI companies automating trucks, mines, and farms will ultimately become larger than any digital AI company, as operators in those industries …
OpenAI says its agentic ChatGPT products, Codex and ChatGPT Work, have surpassed 10 million weekly active users less than two weeks after the launch of ChatGPT Work, a system that performs multi-step tasks across apps an…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup, is targeting a $50 billion valuation in its final private fundraising round before a Hong Kong listing, according to a Bloomberg report, just days after pausing new sign-ups for its …
In November 2025, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5, a model that made AI agents capable of autonomous task execution, leading to a dramatic shift in software development and personal productivity. Nat Friedman of Meta …
Former Microsoft AI executives are betting $1 million that an AI system can replace a human CEO entirely, founding Skyfall AI to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce company and hand over all executive functions to the…
Moonshot AI, the Chinese startup behind the Kimi K3 model, is targeting a valuation above $30 billion in its final pre-IPO funding round, a sharp jump from the $20 billion valuation after raising $2 billion in May 2026. …
Natural has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Forerunner Ventures to build a payments infrastructure for AI agents, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The 193-day-old startup aims to offer FDIC-insur…
OpenAI has hired 283 former Apple employees since August 2025, with 44% coming from hardware engineering roles, according to an analysis by Inkling. The hiring surge peaked at 30 moves in February 2026, and none of the 2…
Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final pre-IPO fundraising round at a valuation of as much as $50 billion, capitalizing on excitement around its latest Kimi K3 model. The Chinese AI lab is clo…
Google has registered identifiers for two new AI models, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite, inside its development infrastructure, signaling imminent deployment as the company faces delays on its flagship Gemini…
Neo emerged from stealth on July 20, 2026 with $100 million in seed and Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, Craft Ventures and Merlin Ventures to build a control layer for AI agents and …
Microsoft and French AI startup Mistral AI have expanded their strategic alliance with a multi-billion-euro agreement to boost European AI infrastructure and deploy new AI models in businesses and governments. The partne…
Microsoft has agreed to fund a multibillion-dollar expansion of Mistral AI's European compute infrastructure, adding thousands of NVIDIA Vera Rubin chips to Mistral's capacity while stopping short of taking a new equity …
Most AI startups are pricing their products based on outdated software economics that assumed near-zero marginal cost, but every AI inference carries a real hardware bill, making high usage a financial drain rather than …