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Sam Altman outbid Elon Musk to recruit Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture, for Google's Gemini initiative. Shazeer's return to Google follows a $2.7 billion licensing deal for his startup Character…
Bitzero Holdings, a Bitcoin miner turned data center operator, has secured over 1 GW of low-cost power at roughly $0.02/kWh across sites in Norway, Finland, and North Dakota, positioning itself for the AI infrastructure …
Z.AI, formerly Zhipu AI, released GLM 5.2, an open-weight language model that outperforms GPT 5.5 on design benchmarks. The model features multi-token prediction and offers API access and self-hosting options at lower co…
Zhipu AI released GLM-5.2, an open-weights model under MIT license that scores 74.4% on FrontierSWE, beating OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and trailing Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 by one point at roughly a sixth of the cost. The mode…
A guide advises aspiring AI freelancers to land their first client by leveraging existing connections rather than buying expensive courses. It recommends identifying a warm lead's repetitive problem, offering a free low-…
Noam Shazeer, co-inventor of the transformer architecture and co-lead of Google's Gemini program, is leaving Google to join OpenAI, despite Google paying approximately $2.7 billion to retain him less than two years ago. …
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weights AI model under an MIT license, positioning it between Claude Opus 4.7 and 4.8 in performance while costing less than a fifth of Opus on output tokens. The model features a 1M-token …
Mistral CEO confirmed a new open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model family, with early access expected in July 2026. The model is not yet released, and community guesses average a release date of July 15, 2026.
Tolmo, a new security startup founded by former Sqreen and Datadog executives, announced $22M in funding from Accel and Y Combinator to build an AI-powered agent fleet for securing production environments. The company ai…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise reported Q2 2026 revenue of $10.68 billion, up 40% year-over-year, and net profit of $624 million, driven by easing supply-chain bottlenecks that enabled fulfillment of pent-up corporate demand…
Rumble completed its $767 million acquisition of Northern Data AG on June 17, 2026, gaining approximately 22,000 NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPUs and over 200 MW of power capacity across nine data centers. The video platform al…
Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled legislation to create a sovereign wealth fund financed by a 50% tax on the stock of the largest AI companies, giving the American public direct ownership and influence over corporate decision…
Z.ai's GLM-5.2 scored 9.0 to Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code's 8.1 in planning a feature flag service, but both built near-identical working code from the winning plan, making GLM-5.2 the preferred model for both phases at …
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi said at the Data + AI Summit that the proliferation of AI agents from vendors like Microsoft, Snowflake, and AWS is creating a 'quagmire' of lock-in and compatibility issues. Databricks' answer …
ProShares filed its fourth MANGOS ETF in three days, with an effective date of August 31, 2026. The MANGOS basket includes Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google/Alphabet, OpenAI, and SpaceX, reflecting Wall Street's growing ob…
DSC Holdings, a Chinese AI-powered used-car tech platform, set terms for a $51 million US IPO on Nasdaq under ticker $DSC, despite a 29% revenue decline in 2025. The company secured rare approval from China's Securities …
Telepatia, a Colombian AI clinical assistant startup, raised $33 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to reach half of Latin America's 1.9 million doctors by 2027. The company's AI transcribes consultat…
Jean has launched a universal matching engine that uses deep learning to match supply and demand across domains such as recruiting, dating, and marketplaces, claiming 10x better matching than existing solutions.
A pre-final year student built Socra, a multi-agent LLM SaaS that interrogates startup ideas using five specialist AI personas, and deployed it on Railway with a three-provider fallback chain (Anthropic → Google → Groq).…
Odyssey raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, GV, AMD Ventures, and others, to accelerate development of AI world models. The company…