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Databricks raised $3 billion at a $188 billion valuation, a 40% jump from its $134 billion mark five months ago, and revealed that its 3,000 engineers are defaulting to Chinese open-source model GLM 5.2 over Anthropic's …
Meta is negotiating a deal to lease its AI data center computing power to Anthropic for as much as $10 billion over two years, according to sources cited by International Business Times and The Verge. The deal would turn…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, according to an SEC filing on Friday. The deal, completed in March 2026, was previously reported to be worth up to $600 million if perf…
Alphabet Inc. leads the AI infrastructure build-out with $185.0 billion in capital expenditure, according to the AI CapEx Tracker, which tracks 45 public companies across 8 sectors. Combined tracked capex totals $941.5 b…
Tyler Cowen identifies a new class of 'AI maniacs'—individuals obsessed with mastering the latest AI models—who are poised to wield outsized influence over work and life. Cowen, an economic advisory board member at Anthr…
YC-backed Agentcard launched a rewards program on July 17th that gives users tokens for every purchase made with an Agentcard, adding a loyalty layer to its product that lets AI agents spend money online without handling…
China's Moonshot AI released its open-source Kimi K3 model Friday, which early evaluations show rivaling top versions of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT, according to Arena co-founder and CEO Anastasios Angelopou…
China's Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, and by the next day the model topped LMArena's Frontend Code Arena with a score of 1,679 Elo, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (1,631) and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (1,…
Observer’s 2026 A.I. Power Index ranks the individuals who controlled capital flow in artificial intelligence over the past twelve months, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Je…
Vertu's Alphafold, a luxury foldable smartphone starting at $6,880, targets executives with its Hermes Agent AI designed to automate workplace tasks, but a TechCrunch review found the device shares hardware similarities …
Databricks Inc. is finalizing a funding round that will value it at $188 billion, with Coatue leading the $3 billion investment. The company plans to use the proceeds to expand its AI capabilities, focusing on products s…
Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that ranks third globally on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and outperforms competitors in front-end coding and agenti…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire Ben Affleck's AI company InterPositive, according to a securities filing. The deal, announced March 5, 2026, brings Affleck on as a senior advisor. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos…
Databricks announced a new funding round led by Coatue that values the company at $188 billion, extending its fundraising streak as it transforms into an AI provider. The round is expected to close later this summer, wit…
Xi Jinping, in his debut at China's World AI Conference, called for low-cost, broadly accessible AI and international cooperation, stating that 'AI development should not be a solo performance by a single country, but a …
SpaceX is in talks with the Pentagon to provide data-center capacity for running AI models, a deal that could cost billions of dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. The arrangement would give the military access…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire Ben Affleck's AI startup InterPositive, the company disclosed in a federal filing. The deal, completed in March, brings aboard InterPositive's 16-person team and Affleck as a …
Meta is in talks with Anthropic to rent out compute capacity from its data centers in a deal that could be worth up to $10 billion over two years, according to the New York Times. Anthropic pitched the arrangement in Jun…
David Sacks, a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, warned that the US risks losing the AI race to China due to regulatory constraints after Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K…
Meta is in early-stage talks to lease data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth up to $10 billion over two years, according to The New York Times. The arrangement would open a new cloud services business fo…