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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…
South Korea's retail crypto trading volume fell 28% year over year to $69 billion in Q1 2026, the steepest decline among major global markets, as retail investors shifted to AI-driven semiconductor stocks that nearly tri…
General Intuition, an AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. Backers reportedly inclu…
Anthropic's valuation surged to $965 billion after a $65 billion Series H funding round on May 28, 2026, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation and marking a rare leadership change in the AI industry. The $113 billio…
Jefferies initiated coverage on IREN Limited with a Buy rating and a $79 price target, projecting 30-36% upside as the company's AI cloud services business is expected to outperform traditional data center leasing. The i…
Amazon Web Services is in early talks to sell its Trainium AI chips to other companies, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market. CEO Andy Jassy indicated the chips could generate a $50 billion annua…
Yann LeCun, a prominent AI researcher, called Elon Musk's xAI a 'failure' in a CNBC interview, citing the departure of nearly all founding members and questioning the company's ability to compete with rivals like OpenAI …
Noam Shazeer, vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal "Attention Is All You Need" paper that introdu…