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Chinese AI startups Moonshot AI, Z.AI, and DeepSeek are challenging U.S. labs by releasing models that match or exceed top-tier performance at a fraction of the cost, upending expectations that U.S. firms could maintain …
Marblism generates full-stack web applications from a business description, using React, Node.js, and Prisma, while Sintra AI automates business operations with pre-built AI employees for tasks like lead generation and c…
Cognition acquired Poke, a conversational AI startup, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures, according to TechCrunch. The acquisition will bring Poke's interaction model and personality to Cognition's Dev…
Prentis, an AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation to develop computer use models that automate routine office tasks, according to TechCrunch. The l…
Moonshot AI's launch of its Kimi model has reignited debates in Washington, D.C., where OpenAI and Anthropic have reportedly lobbied regulators over concerns about open Chinese AI models, according to a TechCrunch Equity…
Moonshot AI's new open-weights LLM Kimi K3 is not cheap, costing slightly less per task than OpenAI's top model but double the cost of GLM-5.2 and about 20 times more than DeepSeek V4, according to Artificial Analysis's …
Midjourney, the bootstrapped AI image company with $500M in annual revenue, acquired Co-Star, a social astrology app with 4.3 million monthly users, in its first-ever acquisition. The deal closed in spring 2026 and was a…
Alphabet has locked down leases covering roughly 2.4 gigawatts of capacity across ten projects, partnering with former Bitcoin miners to secure power for AI data centers. In September 2025, Google agreed to backstop $1.4…
A Hacker News user asks whether others are struggling to invest in ideas—from side projects to startups—knowing that advances in AI could soon render any technical or operational moat obsolete, making a year or more of b…
U.S. tech companies have cut nearly 140,000 jobs in 2026 even as they pour money into AI, while 82% of small businesses have adopted AI tools, with 66% reporting revenue increases and owners saving a median five hours a …
A developer building a SaaS platform in Sri Lanka for handling sensitive documents is seeking advice on whether to combine global knowledge, internet search, and user-specific RAG. The developer is considering two archit…
A former employee of YC-backed startup Simple AI describes being fired as a brutal lesson in the volatility of the AI startup landscape, where the 'fail fast' mentality applies to employees as much as products. The autho…
Genesis AI, a Franco-American robotics startup, is in talks to raise $500 million at a $3 billion pre-money valuation, just a year after emerging from stealth with a $105 million seed round, Bloomberg reported on July 23…
Andy Trattner was fired from Simple AI, a Y Combinator-backed company, three weeks after being recruited for a leadership role and relocating from Greenville to San Francisco, where his rent increased from $1,750 to $5,7…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the company's mission is to provide equal access to education, starting with languages because English proficiency can increase earning potential for nearly 2 billion learners worldwide. Th…
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the total addressable market for AI products will grow 45% a year through 2030 to $1.4 trillion, up from her previous estimate of $500 billion six months ago, driven by surging demand for compute fro…
DeepSeek told prospective investors on July 25 to halt a second funding round that would have valued the Chinese AI lab at $71 billion, triggered by a leaked transcript of founder Liang Wenfeng's private investor briefin…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, pricing it at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, undercutting Claude Fable 5's $10/$50 rate, while Artificial Analysis ranks Opus 5 at 61 on its Intelligence Index versus Fable 5's …
Eurostat reports that 19.95% of EU enterprises used AI technologies in 2025, while 55.03% of large enterprises did, and 72% of EU SMEs had at least a basic level of digital intensity. The article argues that the stronges…
Small business owners are investing in AI to augment their workforce rather than replace it, driven by a persistent labor shortage and a desire to reduce paperwork and errors. Gusto projects small businesses will hire 97…