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Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI on Friday launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it claims is the world's largest open AI model, positioning it as a direct challenger to systems from Anthropic and Op…
Meta is in advanced negotiations to lease computing power to Anthropic in a deal that may reach $10 billion over two years, according to a July 2 report from SemiAnalysis. The arrangement would turn Meta into a cloud pro…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, triggering a broad market selloff that dragged Bitcoin below $64,000, Ethereum near $1,800, Solana around $75, and XRP near $1.07. The Fear & Greed Index fell to…
Apple has sent legal preservation letters to approximately 40 former employees now at OpenAI, demanding they retain documents as part of its trade secret lawsuit against the AI company, according to the Financial Times. …
Content Goblin, an AI SaaS tool for generating image-based listicles, recipes, and Pinterest pins, is shutting down due to lack of financial viability, founder and developer announced. The tool, launched in November 2024…
SpaceX and Blue Origin are racing to deploy massive satellite constellations for orbital AI data centers, with SpaceX filing for up to 1 million satellites and Blue Origin filing for approximately 51,600 to 52,000 satell…
AI companies building quota-based billing systems need a credit ledger with counters for real-time access decisions, not traditional asynchronous usage-based billing, according to a technical guide. The infrastructure mu…
A Chinese AI model, Kimi-K3 developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, jumped from number 17 to number one on the Arena.ai Frontend Code Arena benchmark, surpassing U.S. models like Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The open-…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter model that closes the performance gap with U.S. rivals and represents the world's largest open-weight AI system. The model outperforms older flags…
Nebius Group raised $775 million in its first senior secured debt facility on July 17, priced at Term SOFR + 2.50% and maturing October 31, 2030, to expand its AI cloud platform without diluting shareholders. The NASDAQ-…
Alphabet plans to spend between $175 billion and $190 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, more than double the $90 billion it spent in 2025, as CEO Sundar Pichai flags persistent compute constraints throughout the y…
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab spun off from the High-Flyer hedge fund, is targeting a valuation between $71 billion and $74 billion in a new funding round and a potential 2027 IPO on the Shanghai STAR Market, after raisin…
OpenAI's $70 ChatGPT-branded basketball sold out within a day of launching, despite widespread online mockery over its price and branding. The product, part of OpenAI's 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' campaign, is described as a …
Chinese AI startup Moonshot released its new open-weight model Kimi K3, which rivals advanced US models from OpenAI and Anthropic, sparking fears of a "DeepSeek 2.0" market disruption. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Inde…
Higgsfield made short-form video generation buyable, but the surrounding marketing work remains manual. Caspar Bannink, founder of HomeScout, presents 10 open-source AI projects that replace expensive video generation so…
The Philadelphia SE Semiconductor Index fell 11% this week, heading for its steepest weekly decline in over a year and down 24% from its late June high, as investors rotated out of AI-exposed stocks amid skepticism about…
Startup School 2026 attendees can RSVP for the Ship 2 Prod | YC AI SUS Black-Tie Yacht Gala on July 24, hosted by Resonance, GMI Cloud, and Ship 2 Prod, featuring product demos and lightning pitches for AI founders, engi…
Chinese AI firm Moonshot has released Kimi K3, an open-source large language model trained on 2.8 trillion parameters that outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.5 on most coding tasks, according to the …
Apple briefly surpassed Nvidia as the world's most valuable company on Friday, with a $4.89 trillion market cap edging out Nvidia's $4.85 trillion, despite Apple's lagging AI efforts. Analysts attribute the shift to inve…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8 trillion parameter open model priced at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens, making it the highest list price ever for a Chinese AI model and endin…