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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) committed up to ₹70 billion ($741 million) to Indian data center operator CtrlS, acquiring an 8.2% stake and forming a joint venture to develop hyperscale data cente…
A developer breaks down the real monthly costs of running a single-Rails-app SaaS, finding that hosting can be as low as €4.79/month on Hetzner with Kamal, but total costs including Stripe fees, object storage, transacti…
ChatGPT's market share in the AI industry fell below 50% for the first time, dropping to 46.4% by the end of May, as competitors like Gemini (27.7%) and Claude (10.3%) gained ground. The decline follows OpenAI's partners…
German translation startup DeepL acquired Mixhalo, a real-time audio platform for live events, to enhance its voice translation capabilities and expand into the live event space. Mixhalo, founded by Incubus guitarist Mik…
BrokerPlus, a new AI-powered mortgage brokerage backed by Michael Hyatt, launched to disrupt the traditional mortgage industry by empowering brokers with artificial intelligence tools.
The Globe published its 2026 list of most promising startups, with 103 investment firms participating in the ranking. AI companies dominated investors' choices, reflecting a broader trend of early-stage capital concentra…
Bernstein raised its price target on Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) to $600 from $525, citing strong momentum in the AI chip market. Analyst Stacy Rasgon maintained an Outperform rating, projecting fiscal 2027 earnings per…
A reader shared a decades-long collection of Wall Street comics with a financial writer, who selected favorites highlighting 1990s tech stocks and Alan Greenspan, the dot-com bubble's brutal aftermath, and the negativity…
Jeff Bezos said orbital data centers are 'very realistic' but face economic hurdles, not scientific ones, in a May 20 CNBC interview. Blue Origin filed FCC applications in March 2026 for Project Sunrise, a 51,600-satelli…
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch has spent two years warning that US AI models could be switched off by the US government, and a recent US order forcing Anthropic to cut foreign access to its models proved his point. The intern…
U.S.-based developers and small startups are increasingly adopting Chinese open AI models like DeepSeek to cut costs, with some reporting coding costs dropping from $10 on Claude to under 50 cents. Firms such as Lindy ha…
Allbirds sold its footwear business, laid off most staff, and rebranded as Smartbird to become an AI infrastructure provider. The company, once valued at nearly $4 billion after its 2021 IPO, saw its market value fall be…
Crosby, a legal-tech startup, released the Redline Bench to evaluate AI models on contract-review tasks such as redlining and risk-spotting. The benchmark addresses the challenge of defining correct outputs in legal edit…
French AI startup Mistral publicly positioned its open-source models as an alternative after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut access to two models for foreign nationals. Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch stated the com…
Poland has acquired an equity stake in ElevenLabs, the AI voice synthesis company founded by Polish entrepreneurs Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dąbkowski, as part of its strategy to become a leading European tech hub. Elev…
China announced support for IPOs by AI startups and large model companies as part of its 15th Five-Year Plan, aiming to boost tech self-reliance. Firms like Zhipu AI, MiniMax, and Unitree Robotics are already advancing l…
OpenAI's leaked 2025 financials show revenue of $13.07 billion but total costs of $34 billion and operating losses of $20.92 billion, raising questions about its path to profitability ahead of a potential IPO. The compan…
Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI face a $50 billion near-term funding gap, with only 25% of leased AI capacity delivered, pushing the market toward crypto-native lending protocols and asset-backed financing models. Companie…
Mieux Donner, a French effective giving initiative, hired three people from 424 applications after opening four roles to fill two positions, investing 160 hours in a four-step process. The organization optimized for find…
Twenty, a startup building AI-powered offensive cyber tools for the Pentagon, has reached a $1 billion valuation less than two years after being founded. The Arlington-based company emerged from stealth in November 2025 …