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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…
Morning Brew co-founder Alex Lieberman built a six-step Claude content machine that generates publishable posts without producing generic AI slop, using an Oracle to scan for content spikes, an interview panel to extract…
Practical Venture Capital general partner Aman Verjee is bullish on Anthropic's IPO over OpenAI's, citing stronger positioning in the AI market. Verjee's comments come as both companies prepare for their anticipated publ…
RBC Capital Markets managing director Rishi Jaluria says there are two 'big' misconceptions about AI's long-term impact on the software sector, addressing fears of AI disruption in an interview with Yahoo Finance Video.
Chinese open-weights models from Moonshot and Alibaba now match OpenAI/Anthropic frontier quality at a fraction of the inference cost, with roughly 80% of startups already using a Chinese model in their stack. This commo…
AI startup Decart released Lucy 2.5, a live video model that generates real-time visual effects such as fireballs and smoke, and also improves physics simulations for robotics training. The model offers finer control ove…
Swiss satellite company SWISSto12 is building satellites with 3D printers as Europe vies to stake its claim in the rapidly growing space sector, CFSO Fredrik Gustavsson told The Stack. AI platform Fireworks is now worth …
CuspAI, a two-year-old British AI lab, launched the AI Materials Foundry on Monday, a coalition of over 45 companies and research labs including Nvidia, Meta, Samsung, Hyundai Motor Group, Applied Materials, Tokyo Electr…
Samsung SDS launched NPUaaS, a cloud service powered by South Korean startup FuriosaAI's second-generation RNGD chip, offering businesses a cheaper alternative for AI inference. The service targets the growing inference …
Moonshot AI has paused new signups for its Kimi K3 chatbot just four days after its July 16 launch, citing overwhelming demand that strained GPU infrastructure. The Beijing-based startup said existing subscribers will ge…
NetApp acquired AI data infrastructure startup DataPelago, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. DataPelago's Nucleus engine processes data at the storage layer, reducing infrastructure costs by up to 80% and …
Singapore stocks fell on Monday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) down 0.2% to 5,498.95, amid a tech rout in Asian markets triggered by the launch of Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi 3.0 model, which is comparable to…
Chinese startup LegendSpace, which uses artificial intelligence to shorten rocket engine development cycles, has raised $29.5 million in angel funding, the company announced. The six-month-old firm, formally named Linjie…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, but provided no benchmark scores, m…
Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter large language model, on July 19, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in performance. The launch intensifies China's AI race, coming days…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese AI firms like DeepSe…
China revised stock market listing rules three weeks before AI startup DeepSeek filed for a mainland IPO, raising questions about regulatory timing. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence developer, sought to…
Moonshot AI paused new sign-ups for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed its GPU cluster to capacity. The Chinese lab said on X that demand over 48 hours "pushed close to the limits of our current capacity," adding "Our…
In early July 2026, Chinese AI chip companies Biren Technology and Iluvatar CoreX returned to capital markets, raising $900 million and $902 million respectively through share placements, while AI model company Zhipu pri…
AI startups are shifting focus from flashy demos to revenue-generating products as investor pressure mounts, with founders abandoning projects like neural-signal headphones and viral presentation builders to chase surviv…