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Maverick Capital co-CIOs Ben Silver and David Tykocinski warn of an 'air pocket' risk in AI markets as infrastructure buildout outpaces productivity gains, and predict value will shift back downstream to application and …
Pixi launched a messaging app on the App Store that lets users send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage, which come to life via the recipient's iPhone camera and react to surroundings in real time. The startup, fou…
HIVE Digital Technologies acquired the 32 MW Big Boden data center in Sweden, transitioning from tenant to owner, and plans to upgrade the facility to Tier III standards for enterprise AI workloads powered by hydroelectr…
NeuralTrust, a Barcelona startup, raised $20 million in seed funding to secure AI agents that large companies deploy faster than they can track. The round was led by Alstin Capital, with the company positioning itself as…
HIVE Digital Technologies subsidiary BUZZ High Performance Computing signed a three-year, $220 million GPU cloud agreement with Bell AI Fabric to deploy 2,304 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs at a facility in Merritt, British…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that AI will create more jobs for humans, not replace them, during an appearance at VivaTech Paris. He argued that the technology will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for …
Mistral AI is developing Code and Apps features for its web platform Vibe (Le Chat), moving beyond conversation toward a full product platform. The Code section brings coding agents to the browser, while the Apps area al…
Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of the Gemini models, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer is a co-author of the 2017 paper "Attention Is All You Need," which introdu…
Midjourney, the AI image-generation company, announced a full-body medical scanner at a San Francisco event on June 17, claiming it outperforms MRI machines in speed and safety. The device, built with ultrasound firm But…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job displacement, safety fa…
Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation to provide hedge funds and law firms with private, self-hosted AI infrastructure. The company launched an encrypted AI workspa…
Digital agencies are hitting a wall between their 50th and 100th active client as AI tools like ChatGPT absorb tasks that once anchored invoices, squeezing retainers. Thriving agencies are shifting to productized service…
Prem AI, a developer of private AI infrastructure for sovereign data solutions, is raising $100 million in a Series A funding round, according to Bloomberg. The round would be a massive leap for the company, which has di…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI video startup, has reached a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million last September, and is cash-flow positive. The company aims to rival AI coding platforms like Cursor and Lova…
Artisan released Ava 2.0, a second-generation autonomous AI BDR rebuilt from the ground up. CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack demonstrated a campaign that sent 7,000 emails with a 3.6% positive response rate, generating hundred…
Saudi Telecom Co. (stc) and Public Investment Fund-backed Humain extended their memorandum of understanding by six months to establish a Saudi AI data center joint venture, according to a Tadawul filing reported on June …
The EU is betting on industrial AI to revive its manufacturing sector and compete with the US and China. With less than 12% of global AI venture capital and a 17% share of manufacturing output, Europe is launching AI Fac…
Texas-based startup TAR raised $27 million to build modular power systems combining solar, wind, battery storage, and natural gas backup for AI data centers, bypassing years-long grid interconnection queues. The seed-sta…
France's OVHcloud plans to develop frontier AI models from scratch, aiming to open-source them once performance targets are met, as Europe seeks alternatives to US and Chinese AI systems. CEO Octave Klaba said improved c…
Blackstone-owned data center operator AirTrunk is seeking a A$4.3bn ($3bn) loan to build a single hyperscale facility in Sydney, highlighting the massive capital and power demands of AI infrastructure. The 400+ megawatt …