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Moonshot AI founder Yang Zhilin, 34, unveiled the Kimi K3 model on July 16, which topped the Arena Frontend Code Arena with a score of 1,679 and ranks first in six of seven frontend domains, while charging $3 per million…
Chinese AI firms Moonshot AI and MiniMax unveiled powerful new models at the World AI Conference in Shanghai on July 17, triggering a broad sell-off in US tech stocks. The Nasdaq dropped 1.4%, the S&P 500 fell 1%, and se…
AMD, Arm Holdings, and Intel are competing to dominate the CPU market for autonomous AI agent workloads, a shift that could reshape semiconductor competition away from GPUs. AMD's x86 server CPU revenue share rose from 2…
Yang Zhilin, the 34-year-old founder and CEO of Chinese AI company Moonshot AI, has captured global attention with the release of the open-weight Kimi K3 model, which rivals leading American models in coding and agentic …
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is positioning itself as the indispensable second platform in the AI infrastructure market, rather than trying to beat Nvidia Corp., according to a Breaking Analysis. CEO Lisa Su's strategy fo…
Tencent's office-agent platform WorkBuddy has become China's largest product in its category with 8.85 million monthly active users, according to a report from Chinese research firm Analysys. The AI agent workspace, buil…
Tract, a venture-backed startup founded in May 2023 to address Britain's housing crisis by improving the planning permission process, ceased operations in March 2025 after raising a £744,000 pre-seed round in April 2024 …
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI released the Kimi K3 AI model on July 16, 2026, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and ranking fourth on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming U.S. models like Opus 4.…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot released its Kimi K3 AI model, which tops Arena's ranking for front-end coding capability and costs half as much as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, according to Bank of America. The model's unveiling…
DeepSeek trained its flagship V3 model for about $5.6 million, a fraction of the $50 million to $100 million OpenAI spent on GPT-4, and the Chinese lab operating under U.S. chip export controls has continued to match or …
Alibaba Cloud launched Agent Native Cloud, a new cloud architecture for enterprise AI agents, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026 in Shanghai on July 18. The platform includes AgentTeams for orche…
A founder has launched IdeaGrit, a tool that uses category-specific validation workflows with nine predefined cards to help founders pre-mortem an idea before committing significant resources, addressing the gap between …
OpenEvidence, the Miami-based AI platform for healthcare professionals, is reportedly considering raising $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, a nearly 6x increase from its $3.5 billion valuation in July 2025. The co…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, on July 16, and within a day it topped the Frontend Code Arena leaderboard with a score of 1679, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. The Beijing-b…
Indonesian Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto invited Huawei and ByteDance to expand AI investment in Indonesia during meetings in Shanghai on July 17, aiming to accelerate digital infrastructu…
Alphabet, Microsoft and Amazon face earnings tests over the next two weeks as investors seek evidence that record AI spending is generating stronger revenue growth, with analysts at StoneX noting the market's declining w…
TSMC reported blowout Q2 earnings with revenue jumping 36% year over year and net income soaring 77.4%, driven by surging AI chip demand, while IBM warned Q2 revenue and earnings fell below expectations as customers shif…
Global startup investment hit $510 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the $440 billion full-year record set in 2025, with over 70% of capital going to AI-focused companies, according to Crunchbase and venture …
Beijing-based Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8 trillion parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that beats Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on coding and agent benchmarks, making it the largest open-weight model ever…
Thinking Machines, the $12 billion AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI executive Mira Murati, released its first AI model Inkling with open weights for enterprise customization, testing enterprise demand for open-weight mode…