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Kurt Mackey is stepping down as CEO of Fly.io, handing control to former Docker CEO Scott Johnston as the cloud infrastructure provider raises a $25 million Series D and pivots its product toward persistent computing env…
Global venture funding hit a record ~$300 billion in Q1 2026, but 65% of that went to just four AI companies — OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Waymo — which together raised $188 billion, according to Crunchbase. Non-AI found…
Corgi, an AI insurance startup founded in 2024 by Nico Laqua and Emily Yuan, tripled its valuation to $4 billion in eight weeks after closing a Series B extension, according to Forbes. The San Francisco-based company, wh…
DeepSeek has reportedly paused a planned funding round after a leaked transcript of founder and CEO Liang Wenfeng's off-the-cuff remarks went viral, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The transcrip…
An engineer priced the data costs for an autonomous AI agent at scale and found that enrichment data costs more than inference, making the total cost $77–127 per active customer per month against a $57 ARPU. The analysis…
A new Director of Engineering at a 30-person AI startup in the Bay Area with 20 senior/staff engineers using AI tools like Claude Code is tasked by the CTO to improve velocity and productivity while balancing quality, an…
AI pricing is now understood, but the token remains a cost, not a price, argues Arnon Shimoni in an expert opinion piece. Shimoni identifies three working strategies: bundling tokens into plans or seats to drive adoption…
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick publicly pressured Samsung Electronics and SK hynix to build memory chip fabs in the United States or face a 100% tariff, a threat that lands as the AI-driven memory shortage worsens. Mo…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, which ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard and achieves near-Fable 5 capabilities at lower cost by removing over 80 percent of system prompt overhead, accordin…
Open-source AI models are becoming a strategic tool for companies like Meta and Mistral, which release them as loss leaders to control the ecosystem and commoditize the technology, stripping the competitive advantage fro…
PotenAI, a bootstrapped startup founded by two developers, chose a structured assessment with AI analysis over a chatbot for career guidance. The founders found that open-ended conversation produces inconsistent signal q…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in an Axios interview on July 24 that the semiconductor industry needs to grow five to ten times to support the AI and robotics revolution, arguing current chip production is insufficient. Hu…
Managing AI agents has become the most valuable engineering skill, with the average enterprise now running 12 AI agents, expected to reach 20 by 2027, according to a Salesforce report cited by beam.ai. Mid-level AI orche…
Supermicro introduced its H15 server portfolio built on 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series CPUs, featuring up to 256 cores per socket and 1.7x generational performance gains, alongside new PCIe GPU servers for AMD Instinct MI3…
Monday.com is eliminating 630 jobs, roughly 20% of its global workforce, in what co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman described as a strategic AI restructuring, but the company's market cap has fallen to about $3.1 billion, …
Google DeepMind's open-weight Gemma model family surpassed 900 million total downloads by July 2026, driven largely by the Gemma 4 release in April 2026, which alone accounted for over 300 million downloads. The family i…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Axios that the AI chip boom will not end soon, arguing that the current expansion is industrially driven rather than seasonal or demand-driven, and that the industry must grow five to ten tim…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has halted its second fundraising round, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The decision pauses what was expected to be a significant capital infusion for the com…
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched July 8, places fourth on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index but costs roughly $2.49 per coding task versus $10 or more for Claude Opus 4.8, a gap wide enough to reshape how startups build o…
Meta, Mistral, and other companies are releasing powerful open-source AI models for free as a strategic move to commoditize the ecosystem and gain market share, not out of generosity. The real value lies not in the model…