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China's open-weight AI models triggered the worst week for US chip stocks since April, with the Nasdaq 100 falling 4.1% and the semiconductor index dropping 10% as investors questioned the return on $725 billion in AI ca…
Together AI and Y Combinator have partnered to launch the first dedicated GPU cluster for Y Combinator's portfolio of AI-native startups, providing flexible, short-term access to compute at long-term rates. The cluster, …
Alibaba previewed Qwen 3.8, an open-weight model with over one trillion parameters that handles images, video, documents and text, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5. The Qwen team says it outperforms Qwen…
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. today previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter AI model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic PBC's Claude Fabl…
Feyn AI, a YC-backed startup, released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect the database before writing a query. The flagship SQRL-35B-A3B achieves 70.6% execution accuracy on BIRD Dev, outperforming Claude …
Netflix paid approximately $587 million in cash for Ben Affleck's AI filmmaking startup InterPositive, according to a regulatory filing disclosed in July 2026. The acquisition, completed in March, brings Affleck's four-y…
Alibaba's Qwen team previewed Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal model, on July 19, 2026, at the World AI Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is 'second only to Fable 5' among benchmarked systems. T…
Apple has partnered with Alibaba to integrate AI features into iPhones sold in China, giving Alibaba stock its biggest AI endorsement to date. The collaboration positions Alibaba's AI models as a key component of Apple's…
Anthropic is in early talks to lease approximately $10 billion in computing power from Meta over two years, with monthly payments and early termination rights for both parties, according to reports from the New York Time…
Jason Lemkin warns B2B founders that AI token spend can balloon 60x unchecked, as seen at ClickHouse since February, and urges putting a spend governor in place before the CFO does. He argues net new logo growth above 15…
Alibaba's Qwen team on July 19 unveiled Qwen 3.8, a 2.4 trillion-parameter multimodal AI model that the company says is 'second only to Fable 5' — a reference to Anthropic's top-tier Claude model — though Alibaba has not…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scores 57 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, surpassing Claude Opus 4.8 (56) and ranking #1 on AutomationBench and BrowseComp. The…
Investors are bracing for a pivotal week as AI bubble fears intensify alongside major earnings reports from tech giants. The market's focus will be on whether AI-driven growth can justify high valuations, with key compan…
Moonshot AI has temporarily suspended new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 service due to overwhelming demand that pushed GPU capacity to its limits over the past 48 hours, the company announced. Existing subscribers are un…
Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model that companies can fine-tune via its Tinker platform without building GPU infrastructure, enabling startups to own specialized AI models.…
AI freelancers hit a revenue ceiling when they sell bespoke work because each project starts from zero and efficiency gains from AI get passed to clients as discounts under hourly billing. Productizing the service—offeri…
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI leader Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, with 975 billion parameters including 41 billion active parameters, positioning it as a customizable, open-…
AI recruitment startup Refer offers a paid job-finding service that uses artificial intelligence to match candidates with employers, positioning itself as a tool to help workers rather than replace them. The company char…
Korean retail investors face amplified losses as the KOSPI index corrects from 9,000 to 6,000 points, exacerbated by single-stock leveraged ETFs introduced by Korean regulators. Chinese startup Moonshot's new AI model, r…
Moonshot AI, the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot, is moving toward a Hong Kong IPO after releasing its Kimi K3 model, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight system that led the Frontend Code Arena benchmark w…