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Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc, an AI-native software infrastructure company, on July 29, 2026. The deal combines Modular's software platform with Qualcomm Technologies' compute solutions …
Together AI announced a strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to become the launch platform for Moonshot's open-weight models, starting with Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with native …
Apple became the second company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting $5.04tn on Tuesday, as investors fled AI and semiconductor stocks amid a broader tech sell-off. The iPhone maker's rally was driven by…
A user reports that Kimi K3, a distilled AI model, matches Anthropic's Opus 4.7/4.8 in response quality while being 5-10x cheaper, demonstrating that distillation enables open models to compete with frontier models. The …
Replit began rolling out model choice on July 28th, starting with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, founder and CEO Amjad Masad said in a post on X. The launch puts an open-weight model directly into Replit's product strategy days …
Cursor cut its India AI coding plan to $7 a month (₹649), the first time it has localized pricing anywhere, using its own models to keep the plan sustainable rather than a loss leader. The startup launched Cursor Start o…
Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the economics of China's free…
Fireworks AI released Fireworks Nexus, a drop-in routing and cost-control layer that moves routine coding work to open-weight models, citing a Forbes report that Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on…
Seagate reported fiscal Q4 2026 adjusted earnings per share of $5.71 on revenue of roughly $3.6 billion, crushing analyst expectations of $5.04-$5.12 EPS, and guided fiscal Q1 2027 revenue to approximately $4.1 billion w…
South African healthcare startup Respocare has launched an agentic AI clinical assistant designed for medical environments, integrating medical scribes and patient record reasoning as part of a broader ecosystem redesign…
Andrew Ng, who coined the term 'agentic AI,' has founded LearnVector, an AI-native learning startup backed by Coursera with $100 million for a roughly one-third stake, valuing the pre-product company at about $300 millio…
Coursera invested $100 million in Andrew Ng's new AI education startup LearnVector, valuing the company at approximately $300 million and taking a one-third stake. Ng, who will serve as CEO, said the startup aims to upsk…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and Tencent Holdings have broken into the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500 for the first time, driven by surging demand for AI chips and digital platforms. TSMC rose 44 …
Runlayer, a startup offering a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, has filed a lawsuit against HR software company Rippling, accusing it of stealing its product idea after a nearly year-long product trial. Runlayer cl…
Chinese chipmaker CXMT Corp. soared 466% on its market debut Monday, becoming the most valuable company listed in mainland China with a market capitalization of roughly US$490 billion. The state-backed DRAM manufacturer,…
Munich-based 5U AI raised $3.2 million in pre-seed funding led by Emerge Capital on July 28, 2026, to expand AI workers that handle quoting, bookings, tracking and invoice reconciliation inside freight forwarders' existi…
Fish Audio, operating as Hanabi AI Inc., has raised $52 million in seed funding led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, the AI voice startup announced on its first anniversary with $21 million in annual recurring rev…
Core Scientific signed 15-year leases with AMD for 529MW across five U.S. campuses, generating more than $14 billion in potential base contracted revenue and doubling Core Scientific's total leased AI capacity to roughly…
Fish Audio, a San Francisco startup founded by former Nvidia researcher Shijia Liao, has raised a $52 million seed round led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, reaching $21 million in annual recurring revenue and 8 …
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI lab founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, in a long-term strategic partnership announced July 27. The deal gives SSI access to Nvid…