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Temasek Holdings plans to triple its AI investments from $25 billion to $75 billion by 2030, joining funding rounds for Anthropic, Waymo, and Isomorphic Labs as part of a broader restructuring to integrate AI across its …
SambaNova completed a $1 billion funding round at an $11 billion valuation led by General Atlantic, and signed JPMorganChase as a customer for its AI inference systems. The company plans to use the funds to scale its bus…
SambaNova is closing in on a funding round of up to $1 billion at a valuation near $10 billion, roughly five times its valuation from four months ago. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan confirmed the talks, highlighting surging invest…
Naver Cloud and Mistral AI signed a comprehensive partnership to jointly pursue the manufacturing AI market, aiming to offer sovereign AI solutions to manufacturers in Europe and Asia. The partnership leverages their sha…
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective July 7, 2026, shifts ro…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek added $7.7 billion in direct China investments in fiscal 2025, pushing its total portfolio to a record $324 billion. The fund is tripling down on AI, targeting $75 billion in AI in…
SK Hynix shares plunged 5.7% on Wednesday as a broad AI chip selloff overshadowed the company's upcoming Nasdaq debut, with South Korea's Kospi index falling 5.4% amid losses in Samsung Electronics and renewed US-Iran te…
In June 2026, 16 AI startups achieved unicorn status, signaling a shift in venture capital towards applied AI and infrastructure rather than foundational models.
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an inference-infrastruc…
SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion in a funding round at an $11 billion valuation, signaling strong investor demand for alternatives to Nvidia in AI hardware. The Palo Alto-based startup, which builds custom AI chips an…
Mainland Chinese tech firms listed in Hong Kong are leveraging the city's global connectivity to refine products, forge international partnerships, and expand overseas, according to executives. Beijing-based robot maker …
Physical AI, encompassing warehouse robotics, AI-native factories, and energy infrastructure automation, represents a $50 trillion opportunity, far larger than AI for knowledge workers. However, investors and executives …
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questions for enterprise bu…
Rebellions, a Samsung-backed AI chip startup, plans to go public on South Korea's KOSPI in early 2027, CEO Sunghyun Park told CNBC on July 8, 2026. The company secured about 640 billion won in pre-IPO funding from Mirae …
Rebellions, an AI chip startup backed by Samsung, plans to go public in South Korea next year, CEO Sunghyun Park told CNBC. The company is leaning toward a listing on the KOSPI over the KOSDAQ.
The AI inference market is bifurcating into cheap commodity models and premium frontier systems, with GPT-4-class costs dropping from $20 to $0.40 per million tokens since 2022 while newer models like Google's Gemini 3.5…
A developer evaluated Google's Gemma model for local AI inference in African tech contexts, finding it practical and cost-effective for startups with limited hardware. The developer built a minimal Go HTTP service to int…
Anthropic reported a profit of over $1 billion in the third quarter of 2026, driven by strong adoption of its Claude Code product in software development. The company confidentially filed for an IPO on June 1, positionin…
Cao Liangliang, former principal engineer and director at Google DeepMind, has returned to Hong Kong after two decades to join the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, bringing Silicon Valley expertise in AI and machine lea…
Generative AI faces a potential US$800 billion revenue shortfall, with minimal productivity gains and high operating costs, raising doubts about its long-term value. OpenAI and other firms struggle to monetize services, …