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WealthManagement reported in a June 18, 2026 article by Gorman Jones that AI will change how RIA firms are valued, with firms using generative AI for meeting summarization, administrative automation, and client messaging…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license technology to Dotmo a…
HIVE Digital Technologies targets $200 million in annualized recurring revenue from its GPU AI cloud operations by Q4 2026, up from $35 million contracted as of March 31, 2026. The company plans to double its GPU fleet t…
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1, 2026, after a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, positioning it for a potential IPO. The company has not set a share price, share co…
Anthropic launched Artifacts in beta for Claude Code Team and Enterprise users, enabling developers to generate interactive web pages, dashboards, and app-like outputs from AI sessions and share them via private organiza…
Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a new company called Dotmo, citing high costs of internal development. Dotmo will focus on AI models for interactive gaming, with Snap retaining a large equ…
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun told Bloomberg that large language models will become largely obsolete within five years, arguing that scaling text-based AI cannot achieve human-level intelligence. LeCun, who left Meta to…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The company, which is cash-fl…
Questrade has launched a custom indexing service, responding to demand for portfolio flexibility ahead of blockbuster IPOs from Anthropic and OpenAI.
OpenAI is preparing to release the GPT-5.6 family of models next Tuesday, including standard, Mini, and Pro variants, alongside a new voice model GPT-Bidi-1. The launch targets Anthropic's top-tier models amid a regulato…
YC-backed TesterArmy launched an AI agent platform that automates end-to-end testing on web and mobile apps using plain-English test descriptions, eliminating the need for test code or selectors. The platform handles aut…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured 196 startups, with the accelerator introducing stablecoin funding by disbursing $500,000 in USDC to all S26 startups and completing its first fully on-chain seed investment in…
SpaceX's bankers are preparing to meet investors as early as next week to discuss a bond offering of at least $20 billion, the first investment-grade dollar bond issuance for Elon Musk's company, which seeks funding for …
Cory Doctorow argues that since 2008, policymakers have consistently chosen to decouple money from real value, leading to inflated asset prices and speculative bubbles. He cites the rise of meme stocks, Theranos, FTX, an…
Midjourney announced on June 18 the launch of Midjourney Medical, a new division developing an Ultrasonic CT scanner that can scan the entire body in 60 seconds using ultrasound-on-chip technology from Butterfly Network.…
General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab spun out of gaming-clip platform Medal, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. The company trains AI agents on Medal's dataset of roughly two b…
Alibaba.com reported that 71% of applicants to its CoCreate Pitch competition are solopreneurs, up from 40% last year, with 89% of solo founders citing AI tools as essential. The surge, driven by AI adoption across age g…
Meta's AI reorganization has caused employee unrest, with CTO Andrew Bosworth admitting the process was 'atrocious.' A leak exposed members of Peter Thiel's secretive 'Dialog' society, and Sam Bankman-Fried is seeking a …
Yann LeCun, Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, argued at VivaTech that AI must move beyond next-word prediction to 'world models' that understand physical reality. His startup, which raised $1.03 billion in seed funding in …
U.S. defense tech startup Anduril secured $5 billion in May, one of the largest private defense investments ever, to expand manufacturing of autonomous drones and systems. Global private defense investment hit $10.63 bil…