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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 …
Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot research and training facility in Fremont, California, where it plans to house nearly 200 employees and teach its Digit humanoid new skills. Cofounder and chief robot officer …
UBS's trading desk says the selloff in momentum stocks is nearing an end, creating an opportunity to buy artificial intelligence and semiconductor shares. Hedge funds have unwound long positions in momentum and semicondu…
Prince Canuma, the maintainer of mlx-vlm, released Nativ, an MIT-licensed macOS app for local AI inference, on the day of its v0.0.1 launch. The app bundles an mlx-vlm server, pulls models from Hugging Face, and offers O…
Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond capacity within days of launch, prioritizing existing subscribers while adding capacity. The open-source Chinese AI mo…
Cognition acquired TierZero, an AI production operations startup founded by Anhang Zhu and Yun Park, to integrate TierZero's incident response and infrastructure automations into its Devin software engineering agent. The…
About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the cuts were tied to US …
The AI inflection is likely to support a re-rating of Baidu stock, according to a recent analysis. The company's investments in artificial intelligence are expected to drive future growth and valuation improvements.
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, after pivoting from building AI models to enterprise data infrastructure. Lee calls the product "Boss AI" and describes 01.ai as…
Infinity, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $15 million seed round at a $100 million post-money valuation to scale its platform that automates the adaptation of inference software for any AI ch…
IREN raised its year-end 2026 AI Cloud revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new multi-year contracts with customers including Microsoft and Nvidia, with 85% of the target…
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners to build a real-time control layer for agentic AI software in enterprises. Founded by former Sentinel…
IG market analyst Tony Sycamore estimated that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model erased a combined $314 billion from valuation estimates for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on July 20. The figure, which i…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model using mixture-of-experts architecture, claiming it outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on coding and long-ho…
Tempus AI Inc. announced on Monday its intent to acquire Personalis Inc. for approximately $1.5 billion, a deal aimed at integrating Personalis' cancer testing capabilities into Tempus' AI-enabled precision medicine and …
Fluidstack, a London-founded AI infrastructure startup, is targeting an $18 billion valuation in a new $1 billion funding round, more than double its $7.5 billion valuation from December 2025, according to TechCrunch. Th…
Empirical Security has raised a $25 million Series A led by Brightmind Partners to tailor exploit predictions to each customer's environment, bringing its disclosed funding to $37 million. The Chicago-based company sells…
Y Combinator has published a playbook for building an AI-native company, outlining strategies for startups to leverage artificial intelligence as a core business component. The guide covers key areas such as product deve…
Alibaba Group Holding previewed its Qwen3.8-Max-Preview AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, but the claim lacks external validation as no benchmark data or …