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Coventus AI Solutions Inc. sells vBots, a library of 13 prebuilt AI assistants for property and casualty insurance agency back-office work, including Submission Intake, Quote Generation, and Policy Checking, rather than …
Meshy, a text-to-3D startup founded in 2023 by MIT-trained researcher Ethan Hu, closed a Series B of nearly $400 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on July 21, the largest funding round ever for an AI-generated 3D conte…
SK Hynix expects artificial intelligence demand to stabilize the memory chip industry's boom-bust cycles, with CEO Kwak Noh-jung warning of the most severe shortage ever through 2027. The dominant HBM chipmaker, which co…
Waddle Labs launched an early-access API on July 27th that uses language-model agents to write control programs for robots, claiming it can produce a working policy from a natural-language prompt in 20 minutes. The two-p…
Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform, now in full production and shipping to cloud operators, delivers up to 10x the throughput for agentic AI workloads per unit of energy compared to the previous Blackwell generation, with infe…
OpenAI announced it will make Dublin its European Union headquarters, leasing 88,000 sq ft at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse and committing approximately €105 million to Ireland over the next three years. The company plans…
NVIDIA is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI's planned 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal. The total cost, including chips, coul…
Feyn Labs released FeyNoBg, a background-removal model, and its open-source NoBg training library on July 21, claiming the model achieved the highest published S-measure on four of eight benchmarks and finished within 2%…
Nvidia and OpenAI are in talks to create a backstop of up to $250 billion to fund AI infrastructure plans, including a data center campus in Pike County, Ohio, according to CNBC. The backstop would allow OpenAI to raise …
Apple plans capital expenditures of $13 to $14 billion for 2026, while rivals Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet are collectively expected to spend $650 to $700 billion on AI infrastructure, a roughly 50-to-1 gap. App…
Nvidia has reportedly offered a $250 billion financial backstop for a 10-gigawatt data center complex in Ohio being built by SoftBank unit SB Energy for OpenAI, aiming to secure long-term chip demand and lower AI inferen…
Microsoft's in-house MAI-Code-1-Flash model, post-trained within GitHub Copilot's harness, achieves approximately 10% higher code accept rate than GPT 5.4 Mini and Claude Haiku 4.5 in VS Code, with 6% and 11% higher day-…
Elon Musk said on Tesla's recent earnings call that the Terafab project, a massive vertically integrated semiconductor manufacturing facility producing over 1 terawatt of AI compute annually, will announce its final loca…
AI critic Ed Zitron, author of the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, told MacRumors that Apple is well positioned to weather a collapse of the AI infrastructure bubble because it has spent far less on data centers than riva…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced new data center GPUs and CPUs at the Advancing AI conference, including the Helios 72-GPU rack system with MI455 GPUs delivering up to 18× more tokens per dollar versus MI355. Anthropic will buy…
Atlas Discovery launched out of stealth with foundation models that predict individual patient drug responses in clinical trials, targeting the costly gap between preclinical results and human efficacy. Y Combinator gene…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is releasing its Kimi K3 model weights for free, a move that challenges US AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic by offering a high-performance, low-cost open-weight alternative. Experts…
Nvidia plans to invest $5 billion in Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), an AI firm founded by Ilya Sutskever after his departure from OpenAI, according to a report by @FirstSquawk. Nvidia confirmed a strategic investment…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has been reached, warning that startups resembling those from a decade ago are already in trouble and that the old playbook of hiring large teams and spending a year on…
ChapsVision, a French software company founded in 2019, has won a critical data analytics contract with France's domestic intelligence agency DGSI, replacing Palantir's Gotham platform with its ArgonOS system. The decisi…