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RaptorX AI, an AI-powered quantitative tool for retail digital investors, has been incubated by Moonpay and backed by the Solana Foundation. The platform provides real-time research and trading capabilities across predic…
Verse Enterprises, a San Francisco startup backed by Nvidia, raised $54 million in Series B funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to help AI data centers bypass power grid bottlenecks. Its Dispatch Intelligence softwa…
SpaceX shares fell for a second straight day, dropping as much as 5.8% after a 49% surge in its first three days of trading. The stock remains about 35% above its $135 IPO price, but analysts caution that lofty revenue e…
Big Tech stock buybacks have nearly vanished as Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon prioritize massive AI spending, with only Microsoft buying back shares in Q1 at the lowest level in nearly a decade. Alphabet plans it…
OpenAI hired Ha Thai, former VP of Communications for Meta's Reality Labs, to lead communications for its hardware initiatives. Thai will shape the narrative around OpenAI's first consumer device, a portable AI companion…
Architect Labs, a Palo Alto startup, emerged from stealth with a $24 million seed round to develop an AI system that designs and verifies custom chips end-to-end. The company aims to democratize chip design, targeting th…
Gradial, a Seattle startup, raised $65 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners at a $675 million valuation to build an AI orchestration layer for enterprise marketing. The company's agents work across tools l…
Meta's former chief AI scientist Yann LeCun told CNBC that Elon Musk's AI lab xAI is 'kind of a failure,' citing difficulty hiring top talent after all non-Musk cofounders left and the company's need to lease data center…
Space startups are seeking insurance for orbital AI data centers, aiming to mitigate risks associated with deploying artificial intelligence infrastructure in space. The move reflects growing commercial interest in space…
Bell Canada (BCE) announced a collaboration with Cohere, Hypertec, and BUZZ High Performance Computing to host and operate AI models on Bell AI Fabric infrastructure, using compute capacity from Bell's data centre in Mer…
A small testing company, VeriTest, with only 15 people and a spreadsheet, won a $1.8M contract against QualiGuard, a competitor with 200 people and an AI testing platform claiming 97.2% coverage. VeriTest's lead engineer…
Jonathan Laramy quit his customer service job to create AI-generated history videos on YouTube, where his channel Chloe VS History now earns more than his previous wage. Each long-form video costs between $400 and $1,070…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building a foundation model for AI agents, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, eight months after spinning out of Medal with a $134 million seed round.…
Meta's newly appointed President Dina Powell McCormick is leveraging her Wall Street connections, including relationships with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, to secure financing for the company's massive AI infrastructure bui…
Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aims to counter the inf…
Amazon is negotiating to sell its custom Trainium AI processors to external companies for use in their own data centers, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI hardware. The move follows Amazon's in-house chip business rea…
A hand-picked directory of website submission sites has been compiled to help businesses, startups, and websites earn quality backlinks and rank higher in search engines and AI answers. The list includes platforms like M…
Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI cyber defense system…
BotPool has launched a freelance marketplace connecting businesses with over 5,000 vetted AI freelancers for projects in machine learning, chatbot development, prompt engineering, and automation. The platform charges a f…
Midjourney, known for AI imagery, announced plans to build a cheaper, faster body scanner using ultrasonic sensors and open a spa in San Francisco by 2025, aiming to collect health data and eventually seek FDA clearance.