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In June 2025, Wix paid $80 million in cash for Base44, a six-month-old company built solo by Maor Shlomo, who grew it entirely by documenting the build in public on LinkedIn and X; nine months later it reached $100 milli…
Chinese open-weight AI models now occupy the top five spots on OpenRouter by weekly token usage, threatening to turn America's premium models into expensive niche products. Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, released this week, riva…
Bloom Energy's nearly 1,000% stock surge faces headwinds from grid delays, community opposition, and manufacturing ramp risks, according to the company's mid-year 2026 Data Center Power Report. The fuel cell maker, with …
Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million funding round for his new AI-powered dating app Overtone, which he describes as a "voice- and audio-forward service" that uses AI to provide "highly curated introducti…
DeweyLearn raised $5 million in Series A funding led by SJF Ventures to scale its multimodal AI that grades real-world skills by observing performance against institutional rubrics. The company, named after philosopher J…
A developer investigating EvenUp's success in legal AI found that the real competitive advantage is not a proprietary model but years of structured data from hundreds of thousands of personal injury cases, including medi…
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, triggered a 1.4% Nasdaq and 1% S&P 500 drop on July 17, with Nvidia shares falling over 2% to a $4.85 trillion market cap, as Bloomberg report…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup founded by Yang Zhilin, unveiled Kimi K3 on July 16-17, 2026, as the world's largest open-weight AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters, outperforming OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on certain tasks…
Dan Ives, after 25 years as a top Wall Street tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, has left to launch Yorkville Ives, a modern merchant bank with Yorkville Securities, citing the AI revolution as enabling his career chang…
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman launched Ode with Anthropic on July 15, a $1.5 billion enterprise AI services firm with 100 engineers embedded in clients, aiming to solve the 88% failure rate of enterprise …
Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX have slipped below their listing price for the first time since its initial public offering weeks ago, as traders increasingly bet against the rockets and AI company, according to the Financi…
Hamza Mostafa, 21, a software engineering student from Canada, landed a three-month internship at OpenAI in San Francisco from May to August 2025 after cold-emailing recruiters and passing two technical interview rounds …
SK Hynix has captured roughly 70% of Nvidia's HBM4 memory orders for the upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform, making Nvidia the first customer for the next-generation memory chips. The multi-year co-development agreement, fo…
Paris-based Raidium launched its AI-native radiology platform Raidium Read at Moffitt Cancer Center, replacing legacy radiomics tools for clinical trials and research. The platform, built around Raidium's Curia foundatio…
Apoorv Shankar has raised $5.5 million for Aina, an AI hardware company he founded after leaving Ultrahuman, to build devices that control AI agents rather than just record users. The round was led by Redstart Labs and 3…
Scott Galloway's newsletter 'No Mercy / No Malice' draws parallels between the current AI boom and the dot-com era of 1999, warning of overvaluation and hype. Galloway argues that while AI is transformative, many compani…
AI is making solopreneurship increasingly attractive, enabling lean startups while reducing traditional corporate career stability and appeal, according to a Forbes contributor.
Appointmed, a healthcare SaaS with roughly €2M ARR and 3,500 customers, runs 100% agentic coding where production code is written through agents by default, but humans own product direction, architecture, tradeoffs, revi…
Ventara, a new startup, aims to build practical AI systems that solve real business problems rather than chasing the latest trends. The company focuses on creating natural voice interfaces for software, believing that th…
Anthropic is capping access to its Claude Fable 5 model at 50% of normal usage limits starting July 20, citing demand that has been "challenging" to meet due to insufficient compute infrastructure. The company delayed th…