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Shoemaker Allbirds rebranded to Smartbird and pivoted to AI infrastructure, appointing a new CEO, sending its stock up over 20%.
EarnOS, a startup that pays users to interact with brands to verify human engagement, raised $18.5 million in funding and launched its app Ero. The company aims to combat AI bot traffic by rewarding users with cryptocurr…
Amazon AI chief Peter DeSantis admitted the company's AI models lag behind OpenAI and Anthropic, but expressed hope of catching up within a year. Amazon is investing $33 billion in Anthropic while building its own rival …
IO-AI Tech, a Shenzhen startup, lets workers remotely control humanoid robots using VR headsets and motion-tracking gear for tasks like stocking shelves, while also gathering training data for future autonomous operation…
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which develops 3D world models, valuing the company at $1.45 billion. The funding round also included CIA-linked fund IQT and Google chief scientist…
Senior Trump administration officials discussed structuring government equity stakes in AI companies, with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent favoring using equity to seed Trump Accounts and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutni…
Greptile launched TREX, an execution layer for AI code review that runs pull request code and attaches artifacts like logs, screenshots, and videos to reviews. The startup, founded by Daksh Gupta, Soohoon Choi, and Vaish…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $33 million Series A investment in Telepatia, an AI-native clinical platform for Latin America that combines AI documentation, clinical decision support, and AI healthcare employees. The …
Odyssey, an AI lab developing world models for simulating physical environments, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. Amazon led the round alongside AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel, a…
Amazon is restructuring its AI division under new leader Peter DeSantis and investing up to $25 billion in Anthropic to catch up with OpenAI and Anthropic in frontier AI models. The company is also in talks with OpenAI f…
Clair Health, a San Francisco startup founded by two Stanford graduates, raised $11.6 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures for a noninvasive wearable hormone monitor. The wristband uses 10 biosensors and AI to …
SpaceX's stock surged nearly 50% since its IPO, making its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor cheaper in terms of dilution. Bill Ackman highlighted the dynamic as a core part of SpaceX's value, as Anthropic and …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he left OpenAI because he didn't trust Sam Altman, stating 'why argue with someone when you don't trust them?' in a Bloomberg interview. Amodei expressed peace with the rivalry, saying the…
Odyssey, a world model AI startup founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, led by Natural Capital with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, and G…
Tensordyne, a Sunnyvale startup, announced its Napier (TDN) AI inference processor on June 15, claiming its TDN72 rack system delivers 13 times higher throughput and 17 times more tokens per watt than Nvidia's GB300 NVL7…
Amazon's custom Trainium and Inferentia chips are gaining traction as organizations seek cost-effective alternatives to Nvidia GPUs for AI workloads. AWS reports cost reductions of 80-90% for inference tasks on Inferenti…
CNBC host Jim Cramer said Accenture is being outcompeted by OpenAI and Anthropic, as AI labs move into enterprise consulting. Anthropic's confidential IPO filing intensifies competitive pressure on traditional consulting…
Shoe company Allbirds is changing its name to Smartbird and pivoting to AI infrastructure, appointing former AWS quantum computing head Nadia Carlsten as CEO. The company sold its manufacturing equipment and laid off ret…
KKR launched Helix Digital Infrastructure on June 11 with over $10 billion in backing from KKR, Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Vistra to address AI's power bottleneck. Vistra, a major US power producer, was sel…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos argued that artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it replaces, citing productivity gains leading to labor scarcity rather than mass unemployment. He made the comments during a CNBC …