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Midjourney announced a new medical division, Midjourney Medical, featuring a concept for a full-body ultrasonic scanner that uses sound waves and water immersion instead of radiation or magnets, with a target resolution …

A Seeking Alpha contributor upgraded Applied Materials to a "Buy" on June 18, 2026, citing record Q2 results and strong AI-driven wafer fab equipment demand. The company's strategic moves, including the NEXX acquisition …

In February 2026, $285 billion vanished from global software stocks after Anthropic's Claude Cowork demo showed AI agents handling complex tasks, triggering the 'SaaSpocalypse' and exposing the vulnerability of per-seat …

Cursor and SpaceX have agreed to co-develop coding and knowledge agent models, with SpaceX holding an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion instead. The deal aims to combine Cursor's coding product …

Wealthy Indians are shifting capital into gold, global stocks, and AI infrastructure, prioritizing resilient portfolios over maximizing returns, according to experts at the ET Alpha Wealth Summit. Rajesh Saluja explained…

A new wave of philanthropy from Silicon Valley, potentially adding $37 billion annually from Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation, is expected to fund global development. However, the author argues that the current model …

Midjourney announced a full-body ultrasonic CT scanner and a spa venture in San Francisco, aiming to revolutionize medical imaging with a device that uses 358,000 ultrasonic elements and claims 0.5mm resolution. The boot…

LG Chem signed a joint research and license option agreement with UK-based LabGenius to develop AI-powered multispecific antibody therapies for cancer. The collaboration uses LabGenius's EVA platform to accelerate antibo…

A prominent Google researcher has left for OpenAI, intensifying the talent war between the two AI giants. The departure follows a trend of brain drain from Google, which invented the transformer architecture but has stru…

The Shanghai Stock Exchange clarified IPO rules for unprofitable AI model developers, allowing listings on the Star Market for firms with an anticipated market cap of at least 4 billion yuan. The move aims to support cas…

A developer building an AI marketing operation in public draws a line between aggressive marketing and deception, arguing that the key ethical boundary is not rule-breaking but causing someone to believe something false.…

Midjourney CEO David Holz unveiled the company's first hardware product, the Midjourney Scanner, a full-body ultrasound scanner developed with Butterfly Network. The device uses 40 ultrasound modules to create 3D body co…

A software founder details how local Qwen models have provided real value for his business, paying for a GPU within months, but warns of infinite loops and hallucination risks, especially when quantized for consumer hard…

Forrester announced full agendas for its AI Forum Singapore and AI Forum Sydney, both themed 'AI Into Action: Unlock Your Opportunity,' to help enterprise leaders scale AI deployments. The events, scheduled for August 20…

DeepAI, a generative AI platform founded in 2017 by Kevin Baragona, bundles text-to-image, video, music, chat, and developer APIs under a freemium model with a Pro subscription at $9.99/month. Generated images on the fre…

David Holz's Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasound scanner that uses sound waves to create 3D body maps in under 60 seconds. The self-funded AI lab is moving from image generation into medical h…

Noam Shazeer, a Google veteran and founder of Character.AI, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, marking another major talent reshuffle in the AI industry. Shazeer co-led Google's Gemini project and co-authored a seminal 20…

Noam Shazeer, VP of engineering at Google and co-lead of Gemini, announced he is leaving Google to join OpenAI. Shazeer previously founded Character.ai and returned to Google in 2024 via a licensing deal. His departure m…

RichInto launched a suite of free online calculators for creators, freelancers, and solo businesses to estimate AI tool ROI, pricing, sponsorship rates, software costs, and digital product profit. The tools provide real-…

Global investors are increasingly splitting Chinese tech stocks into AI winners and losers, with a pair trade strategy going long on Alibaba and short on Meituan returning around 130% year-to-date. The trade is driven by…