AI Startups

Dianne Penn, Anthropic's first technical product manager, joined in 2023 when the product team had five engineers and has since shipped every model from Claude 2 through Fable, and helped incubate Claude Code, MCP, Skill…

Investors are punishing Big Tech stocks for rising AI capital expenditures, but AMD CEO Lisa Su, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, and IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh all report strong AI monetization and productivity gains. Alphabe…

Alphabet's Q2 earnings revealed capital expenditures of over $78 billion in the first half of the year, with total 2026 spending expected between $195 billion and $205 billion, mostly on data centers and custom silicon. …

Leaked comments from DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng reveal a strategy of corporate restraint, low-margin pricing, and open-source models, prioritizing long-term AI ambition over short-term gains. The nearly four-hour tra…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted in a March 2026 Wired interview that the company fell behind Anthropic's Claude Code in the AI coding tools race, with Claude Code generating nearly $2.5 billion in annualized revenue by Fe…

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after leaked comments from founder Liang Wenfeng about China's dependence on Nvidia chips and the country's AI gap with the United States went viral on Chinese social m…

Microchip Technology signed a definitive agreement on July 24 to acquire edge AI chipmaker Hailo, though the transaction has not yet closed and financial terms were not disclosed. Microchip expects completion near the en…

The AI industry has already spent over $65 million ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, with super PACs backed by figures such as OpenAI President Greg Brockman and venture firms Andreessen Horowitz aiming to shape AI re…

Brandon Nelson, manager of the Calamos Timpani Small Cap Growth Fund (CTSIX), which has outperformed 99% of similar funds over three years, said he is not ready to sell AI infrastructure stocks despite recent volatility.…

A deepening divide in Silicon Valley over restricting Chinese AI has pitted companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, which argue for tight control of AI models, against Microsoft, Nvidia, and others that champion open-source…

European drone startups are raising billions as NATO and European nations pour record funding into unmanned systems, with Helsing's $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation marking the sector's acceleration. The…

Monday.com announced on July 22 that it will reduce its global workforce by about 20%, affecting around 620 people, as part of a restructuring built around its AI Work Platform. The company expects $45 million to $55 mil…

Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion in March 2026 to develop world models based on Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA), which argues that intelligence begins with building internal models of the world r…

Microsoft's stock has fallen more than 24% from 12 months ago as investors grow skeptical of the company's multibillion-dollar AI bet, with Copilot lagging behind rivals like ChatGPT and Claude and the company planning a…

AMD's stock surged 142% in the first half of 2026, far outpacing Nvidia's 4% gain, even though Nvidia still commands 87.4% of AI data center GPU revenue according to Axis Intelligence. AMD's data center revenue hit a rec…

Microsoft released two new in-house AI models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model for high-volume enterprise workloads — while…

Scalattice, founded by a 2x founder, launched an OpenAI-compatible inference API that runs open models like Qwen3 and Llama 3.3 70B on a distributed network of consumer-hosted machines. Providers earn 80% of token spend,…

Defense tech startups raised $12.3 billion from venture funds in the first half of 2026, already surpassing the $9.95 billion raised in all of 2025, according to PitchBook data cited by the Financial Times. Anduril Indus…

DeepSeek has suspended its second fundraising round after comments widely attributed to founder Liang Wenfeng about US-China AI competition went viral, people familiar with the matter said. The Chinese AI pioneer verball…

AI cannot validate a business idea — only paying customers can, according to a guide that warns 43% of failed startups died from poor product-market fit, per CB Insights' 2024 study of 431 shutdowns. The five-step sequen…