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Neo Security Inc. has raised $100 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners to build a secure control layer for enterprise AI agents. The startup, founded by former executives from Senti…
Elon Musk's xAI launched a Grok add-in for Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint in mid-June 2026, directly competing with Microsoft's Copilot inside its own ecosystem. The add-ins, available for free download from the M…
Moonshot AI's 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3 model, released July 16, scored 1,679 Elo on LMArena's Frontend Code Arena benchmark, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (1,631) and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (1,618), and demand w…
XAI's Grok AI is now available as a free add-in for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, directly challenging Microsoft's Copilot which costs approximately $30 per month. The add-ins, rolled out in June, allow users to…
Z.AI, the Chinese AI lab formerly known as Zhipu, has partially started operating a 1-gigawatt data centre built entirely with Chinese-made chips, marking the first large-scale proof that domestic silicon can power front…
Bill Gurley, a prominent venture capitalist, argues in a Washington Post op-ed that open models for AI were inevitable and beneficial for competition, countering concerns from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI about sa…
OpenAI has appointed Uday Ruddarraju as its chief technology officer for compute, the company announced. Ruddarraju, who joined OpenAI last July as head of compute and infrastructure after leaving xAI, said the compute t…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shares rose after analysts said the company's AI models are narrowing the performance gap with U.S. rivals Anthropic and OpenAI, signaling growing competitiveness in the global AI race.
Peachtree Group CEO Greg Friedman warned on March 17, 2026 that while AI-driven data center demand is real, record construction levels could tip the market into oversupply. Friedman noted the approaching $1.2 trillion co…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup founded in March 2023 by Tsinghua University alumni, unveiled Kimi K3 at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July 2026, claiming it is the world's largest open-source AI model w…
AI infrastructure startup Infinity has raised $15 million in a funding round led by Touring Capital and Principal VC, with participation from individual researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic, at a $100 million valuation. T…
CuspAI closed a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with participation from Jeff Bezos's Bezos Expeditions and the UK government's Sovereign AI Fund. The Cambridge-based star…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI suspended new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand overwhelmed capacity within 48 hours of launch, the company announced Sunday. The 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model, which t…
Anthropic will discontinue its Conway always-on agent experiment on July 24, 2025, according to a notice on the Conway interface that asks testers to export their data. The shutdown could signal either a full wind-down o…
Moonshot Labs' Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8, two state-of-the-art open foundation models launched this week, pose a strategic threat to top-tier model developers like Anthropic by proving that frontier performance is a…
Utopai Studios is producing an AI-assisted animated feature film adaptation of the children's book 'The Most Serious Fart,' written by 'Not Another Teen Movie' screenwriter Mike Bender, who will also write and direct. Th…
Elon Musk denied reports that SpaceX had placed a $52 billion order for NVIDIA GPUs, calling the claim 'fake news' on X. The rumored deal, cited by Taiwanese media, would have involved approximately 1 million GB300 GPUs …
Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon have collectively added $70 billion to their capital expenditure plans in a single earnings cycle, pushing projected AI spending for 2026 past $600 billion. Amazon has earmarked over…
Former Microsoft AI leaders behind the $160 million Maluuba acquisition are launching Skyfall AI, a venture that will spend $1 million to acquire a SaaS company and let an AI system run it as CEO, aiming to prove artific…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced plans for a 320 MW sovereign AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area through its subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing Inc., targeting deployment of over 100,000 GPUs with a CA…