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Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 model, touted as the world's largest publicly available large language model, sparking debate over whether it marks another DeepSeek moment in the US-China AI race. Counci…
The competition for technology IPOs is increasingly shifting to the years before companies go public, according to SiliconANGLE. As artificial intelligence companies remain private longer, exchanges and investors are vyi…
Microsoft is evaluating Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model for integration into its Copilot service on Azure, a move that could partially displace OpenAI and Anthropic models on one of the world's largest cloud platforms. Kimi …
China's open-weight AI model Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based start-up Moonshot AI, has narrowed the country's artificial intelligence gap with the US to 'a matter of weeks', according to analysts. The 2.8 trillion-pa…
Hut 8 Corp. surged 30-35% after announcing a 15-year triple-net lease worth $9.8 billion for the first phase of its Beacon Point AI data center campus in Nueces County, Texas, covering 352 megawatts of IT capacity for hy…
Tempus AI has agreed to acquire Personalis, Inc. for $1.5 billion, or $16.25 per share, gaining its NeXT Personal minimal residual disease blood test for cancer detection. The deal targets a $20 billion MRD testing marke…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based startup behind the Kimi chatbot, paused new subscriptions to its Kimi K3 model over the weekend of July 18-19 after daily sales surged at least sixfold following the model's launch around J…
Chinese tech firms including StepFun, Nubia, and Honor showcased AI agent-powered smartphones at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, pitching them as the future of mobile devices. StepFun demonstrat…
Harmonic AI, the $1.45 billion formal reasoning startup co-founded by Robinhood's Vlad Tenev and Tudor Achim, argues that AI benchmarks should be human-defined rather than generated by AI systems, a stance with implicati…
Nvidia reported $81.62 billion in quarterly revenue, an 85% year-over-year increase, as Bitcoin miners pivot to AI workloads for up to 25 times higher revenue per kilowatt-hour than traditional mining. CEO Jensen Huang p…
Semiconductor stocks led by AMD, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix jumped on Monday, recovering from a 9% drop in the PHLX Semiconductor Index last week. AMD rose 4% after Rosenblatt and UBS raised price targets ahead of i…
Venture capital firm a16z led the Seed round for Neo, a cybersecurity startup building agentic software control for endpoints where AI agents now operate alongside humans. Neo's founders, including former SentinelOne exe…
SenseTime CEO Xu Li said AI commercialization will shift from a 'token economy' to a 'task economy' as token prices inevitably drop, comparing the trend to telecoms data costs two decades ago. Speaking at the World AI Co…
Apple could dominate AI deployment by combining on-device models, agentic Siri AI, Private Cloud Compute, and partnerships with Google and Alibaba, according to a Computerworld analysis. The company's M7 Ultra Macs may s…
IREN has raised its AI cloud revenue target, while Hut 8 has secured a $9.8 billion deal, according to the companies.
AMD launched Helios, its first rack-scale AI system designed to compete with Nvidia, and announced Microsoft as a new customer, joining Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle. The system targets enterprise AI workloads with high-perfo…
Brand tracking startup Tracksuit has acquired Hall, a Sydney-based startup that measures how brands appear in AI assistant responses, adding AI-monitoring capability to its existing business of surveying consumer sentime…
AI startup Fireworks crossed $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and announced a $1.5 billion fundraise, as customers adopt its platform for custom AI models trained on proprietary data. Founded by former Meta enginee…
Zhongji Innolight, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, is pursuing a Hong Kong listing worth up to $8bn, which would be the city's largest IPO since Alibaba's $12.9bn debut in 2019. The Shenzhen-listed co…
IREN announced $2.8 billion in new AI cloud contracts with eight customers including Perplexity, Figure AI, and Together AI, lifting its year-end 2026 AI Cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to over…