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OpenAI is on pace to miss its own 2030 ad revenue projection of $100 billion by 90%, according to a new analysis from marketing consulting firm Emarketer. Emarketer estimates the entire addressable market for chatbot adv…
Your360 AI disclosed $1.4 million in SAFE financing from seven investors toward a $2 million target, according to a July 20, 2026 SEC Form D filing. The voice-based workplace coaching platform, founded by CEO Jared Goral…
Chinese AI firm Moonshot has paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 large-language model, trained on 2.8 trillion parameters, due to surging demand that pushed GPU capacity to its limits days after release. The Beijing…
Chinese AI company Moonshot's free, open-source model Kimi, which rivals the intelligence of paid models from OpenAI and Anthropic, has sparked a public feud among President Donald Trump's AI advisors, dividing them over…
Big Tech companies are offering their balance sheets as emergency financial backstops for unproven AI startups, enabling them to borrow cheaply but risking ignominy if the investments sour, according to the Financial Tim…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that sparked US tech stock declines, has paused new subscriptions due to overwhelming demand exceeding GPU capacity. The Chinese company said it is add…
Bitcoin miners Hut 8 and IREN have locked in multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, with Hut 8's stock surging nearly 30% after announcing a 15-year lease valued at $9.8 billion at its Beacon Point campus. IRE…
US frontier labs are wrong to dismiss Chinese open source models like Kimi K3, argues Larry Salibra, rebutting Ben Thompson's claim that American labs have lower unit costs and sticky user relationships. Salibra contends…
Fluidstack raised $830 million in a Series A funding round at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Situational Awareness, to expand AI infrastructure for Anthropic and other labs. The UK-founded neocloud provider converts fo…
Microsoft will deploy AMD's Helios rack-scale AI platform at scale on Azure, making it the first hyperscaler to publicly commit to the platform. The deployment, expected to begin in the second half of 2026, targets AI in…
Neo, a Boston-based cybersecurity startup founded by former SentinelOne executives Nick Warner and Shlomi Salem, emerged from stealth on July 20 with $100 million in cumulative seed and Series A funding to control AI age…
Microsoft and AMD announced a partnership to deploy large-scale AI clusters on Azure using AMD's Helios rack design, which includes MI455X GPUs, Venice Epyc 9006 CPUs, Pensando DPUs, and the ROCm software stack. The Heli…
Saronic, an autonomous shipbuilding company, announced its $3.2 billion Port Alpha project will be built in Brownsville, Texas, instead of Solano County, California, creating 10,000 permanent jobs and 10,000 construction…
Open source AI cannot be banned, argues a new analysis, as the technology's decentralized nature makes prohibition impractical. The piece highlights that attempts to restrict open source AI would stifle innovation and dr…
Citi strategist Scott Chronert argues the 'Magnificent Seven' label for Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, and Nvidia is outdated as the AI revolution creates new winners. Chronert proposes broadening the c…
Nvidia Corp. remains far ahead in accelerated computing, but AMD Inc., Broadcom Inc. and other challengers are positioning themselves for a market in which demand may support multiple winners, according to a discussion o…
Alex Southmayd launched Bloomy (YC S26), an AI-powered mastery-learning platform for K-12 students that provides an AI tutor alongside adaptive curriculum in Math, English Language Arts, and Writing. The platform diagnos…
Y Combinator and Together AI have partnered to launch a dedicated GPU cluster for YC-backed startups, addressing the critical shortage of compute resources for AI model training. The initiative, announced by Y Combinator…
OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor predicted on CNBC that within a year, companies will stop worrying about AI tokens as the market matures and other firms bear the burden of managing them. Taylor said the world is moving towar…
A developer at Autor turned down a $200k project from a Series B fintech company to build their customer support automation platform, citing scope creep, maintenance burden, and the risk of diluting their healthcare focu…