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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 …
Y Combinator and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to give YC founders building on Azure access to Microsoft Foundry and high-performance AI infrastructure, including GPU resources, startup credits, technical gui…
Trellis AI, a YC W24 graduate, is hiring a product lead to build AI agents that accelerate patient access to life-saving therapies by automating administrative workflows like prior authorizations and appeals. The company…
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled SPECS, the company's long-awaited augmented reality glasses, at Augmented World Expo, arguing they represent a new era of computing beyond smartphones. Spiegel explained that Snap spent ove…
OVHcloud acquired Dragon LLM, a Paris-based startup specializing in generative AI for regulated industries, and launched a dedicated AI lab to build sovereign large language models. The move positions the French cloud pr…
Jim Cramer agreed that Accenture is being outcompeted by OpenAI and Anthropic, highlighting the consulting giant's struggle against AI firms.
The US Department of Commerce awarded a $500 million grant to SandboxAQ, an AI startup spun out of Alphabet, to discover new chipmaking materials under the CHIPS Act. The company will use AI to find alternatives to toxic…
Arcade.dev raised $60 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, to develop an authorization layer that controls what enterprise AI agents are allowed to do. The st…
Meta's head of product for its AI for Work initiative has left the company amid a sweeping restructuring that will lay off 8,000 employees and reassign 7,000 to AI roles. The departure adds leadership turbulence to Meta'…
SpaceX shares fell as much as 4.7% on Wednesday, snapping a three-day rally that had pushed the stock nearly 50% above its $135 IPO price. The decline threatens to drop the company below Amazon in market value rankings, …
A developer building the productivity app NYN (Greek for 'now') is shifting the focus from endless to-do lists to time-driven tasks. The app enforces strict time blocks so only the current task is visible, aiming to redu…
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Motion, is leading the …
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, surpassed Amazon in market capitalization to become the world's fifth most valuable company after its stock rose 13% on its Nasdaq debut. The surge followed news of SpaceX's $60 billion acqu…