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Female-led Prodlane has raised €4 million in seed funding to develop an AI assistant for technical teams, aiming to capture and preserve the expertise of experienced manufacturing employees before they retire.
Darcy, a high school senior from SoCal, launched Calyxa, a Chrome extension AI tutor that teaches on the student's homework screen using an adaptive engine, aiming to solve the cheating problem by providing Socratic tuto…
DeepSeek cut prices 75% on its V4-Pro model, but enterprise AI vendors are discovering that cheaper models do not automatically translate into healthier margins because agent systems consume tokens at a rate that outpace…
Asian shares mostly gained on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi jumping 4.7% and Japan's Nikkei 225 adding 2.8%, recovering some losses from recent AI stock sell-offs. The Kospi surged as Samsung Electronics rose 7.4% an…
Anthropic dropped plans to charge extra for Claude Fable 5 on July 20, making the model free for Max and Team Premium subscribers within their usage limits, three days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.…
Dimension Capital, a US specialist venture firm, has raised an $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines, signaling continued investor confidence in AI drug discovery despite no AI-discovered drugs having received regula…
ASML Holding became the first European company to reach a $700 billion market valuation this month, driven by surging demand for its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that are essential for manufacturing advanced …
Moonshot, a Chinese AI startup, debuted its Kimi K3 model with 2.8 trillion parameters at the World AI Conference, drawing crowds and comparisons to DeepSeek. Founder Yang Zhilin, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus and former Met…
Custom AI models tailored for individual logistics companies can slash execution costs by 70-80%, according to Sushanth Raman, CEO of Pallet. Raman argues that sovereign AI enhances data privacy and delivers tangible ROI…
Skyfall AI, co-founded by former Microsoft AI leaders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman, plans to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and hand its operations to an AI system designed to ac…
Microagi, a robotics startup founded by former Formula 1 engineers, raised a $55 million seed round led by Hummingbird Ventures to expand Atlas, its system for collecting factory-floor data, training robot control polici…
Jijia Vision, also known as GigaAI, is seeking a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026, founder and CEO Huang Guan said, making it the first world model startup to go public globally. The Beijing-based company is closing a new f…
IREN said on July 20 that $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts lifted its year-end 2026 annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion, with about 85% of the target now under co…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system designed to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin, with Microsoft signing on as a partner to deploy it on Azure. AMD claims Helios will match or exceed Nvidia's second-gen system in perfor…
The Mendral team is joining Anthropic to continue automating engineering tasks as part of the Claude Platform. Mendral, co-founded by former Docker engineers Solomon Hykes and Sam Alba, built an AI agent that diagnoses C…
BlackRock is leading a debt sale of more than $12 billion to fund a Meta data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with the bonds issued by a company holding an 80% stake in the project while Meta owns the remaining 20%, acc…
CuspAI Ltd., a U.K.-based startup using AI to discover new materials, has raised $450 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $2.6 billion. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with a signi…
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The company aims to compete with Stripe by enabli…
CIOs at the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event on July 16 pushed past AI pilots toward measurable returns, emphasizing that infrastructure fragmentation and siloed decision-making are blocking value. Speakers includi…
China's release of competitive open-source AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM signals that the U.S. is losing its AI edge, according to Alberto Romero of The Algorithmic Bridge. The post outlines …