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Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta's Alexandr Wang, Ant…
Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace where AI agents are treated as team members with their own identities and keys, amassing 6,700 GitHub stars in two days. Andrew Ng released OpenWorker, a local-first personal…
SK Group and NVIDIA signed letters of intent for a potential $500 billion AI infrastructure partnership, including a 2GW AI cloud project in Korea using NVIDIA's DSX design and SK hynix HBM4 memory, with the first AI fac…
Deutsche Bank analyst Adrian Cox argues that the competition between open-weight and closed AI models will likely resemble the coexistence of Apple's iOS and Google's Android rather than a winner-takes-all format war lik…
NVIDIA is in talks to provide a financing guarantee of up to $250 billion to help OpenAI lease capacity at a massive AI data center campus in southern Ohio developed by SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy, which is designed to…
Eromify and Higgsfield AI serve different creator needs: Eromify focuses on fast AI persona monetization with credit packs starting at $5 and a $99 monthly plan, while Higgsfield, founded by former Snap generative AI hea…
Higgsfield AI, in partnership with ADWEEK, launched the 'Adathon' contest with an $85,000 prize pool in platform credits for teams that produce the best AI-assisted advertisement for a real brand. The month-long competit…
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and DeepSeek are forcing Silicon Valley to rethink assumptions about the AI race, with Moonshot pausing new Kimi K3 subscriptions less than 48 hours after launch due to overwhelming GPU demand. …
Enigma, a physical AI startup founded by Unit 8200 veterans Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, emerged from stealth with a $71 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital to build an intelligence layer for any …
Nvidia is accelerating financing deals, partnerships, and equity stakes that could collectively exceed $750 billion, including over $500 billion tied to SK Hynix's parent and up to $250 billion in guarantees for OpenAI's…
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project in southern Ohio, the Wall Street Journal reported. The project, expected to cost over $500 b…
Safe Superintelligence Inc., the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised $2 billion in a funding round backed by Nvidia and Alphabet, reaching a $32 billion valuation less than a ye…
Dopl Technologies raised $6.3 million in seed funding led by SpringTide Ventures to advance its telerobotic ultrasound platform, Traverse, toward FDA clearance. The system lets sonographers remotely operate a robotic arm…
Tencent Holdings is reallocating venture capital from legacy internet assets to double down on China's AI champions, including model maker Moonshot AI and chip designer Enflame. The tech giant recently trimmed its stake …
PIMCO group chief investment officer Dan Ivascyn secured favorable conditions for a $16 billion Oracle data center campus financing in Saline Township, Michigan, with PIMCO anchoring roughly $10 billion of the $14 billio…
Daniel built Tilde Pay, an MCP server that gives AI agents a bank account to pay for things online, processing x402 and MPP payments with plans to support card checkout forms. Users deposit EUR or USD, which converts to …
Ed Zitron, an AI industry critic, told MacRumors that Apple will 'watch everything burn' when the AI bubble bursts, arguing that the economics of large language models are fundamentally broken. Zitron cited his own repor…
Anthropic's Head of Industries Eleanor Dorfman reported that 54% of new enterprise logos now close through self-serve after the company rebuilt its enterprise motion around AI instead of hiring more sales reps. Gamma CEO…
Kazakhstan will establish an international innovation hub in Akmola region for AI and startup development, Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov announced after meeting with Network School founder Balaji Srinivasan. The project…
AI founders chasing Fortune 100 logos are wasting time and money, according to a16z. The firm outlines two go-to-market strategies for AI companies: the Lighthouse strategy for category creation, where marquee customers …