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Tech analyst Ed Zitron warned in a blog post that OpenAI's collapse is a matter of 'when, not if,' comparing it to the Lehman Brothers of the AI bubble. Zitron said OpenAI plans to burn $852 billion by 2030 and will need…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, marking what may be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral. The financing signals growing market demand …
Nvidia-backed AI company Fireworks raised $1.5 billion in its latest funding round, reaching a $17.5 billion valuation. Fireworks co-founder and CEO Lin Qiao said companies must "own their own intelligence.
A report from SK Hynix indicating slowing production of AI memory chips triggered a global market rout on June 23, 2026, with SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics each falling more than 10% intraday and the Nasdaq 100 droppi…
Applied Digital Corporation, formerly Applied Blockchain, has crossed 1 GW of contracted critical IT load capacity across its AI data center campuses, with $11 billion in contracted lease revenue from CoreWeave. The comp…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $20 million funding round for Runta, a startup that helps businesses 'parent' AI agents by wrapping them in isolated environments and guardrails to prevent damage, valuing the company at …
Beijing-based Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on Thursday, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model that the company claims is the largest ever built, roughly 75% larger than DeepSeek's V4 Pro at 1.6 trillion parameters. …
Oracle's massive $300 billion cloud compute contract with OpenAI has driven its credit rating to the brink of junk status, with S&P Global downgrading it to BBB/A-2 and warning that OpenAI's financial troubles could leav…
AMD is scheduled to report its fiscal Q2 2026 earnings on August 4, after market close, with investors closely watching for signals on AI compute demand following Nvidia's Q4 FY2026 revenue of $68.1B, of which $62.3B cam…
South Korea's KOSPI index has been transformed into an AI-fueled casino, with more than half of all circuit breakers in its history triggered in the past six months due to extreme volatility from leveraged bets on Samsun…
Former Vine star Cameron Dallas, who signed with Columbia Records in 2018 but left after two unsuccessful singles, has released six AI-generated albums in 2024 through his own DGA Records, part of his new AI business Dal…
SAP has completed its acquisition of Prior Labs, a Berlin-based AI startup specializing in tabular foundation models for spreadsheet data, just 18 months after its launch. The startup's TabPFN models use in-context learn…
Alphabet and Intel are set to report earnings next week that could reshape the dominant AI trade, with investors watching for signs that profit growth can sustain a stock market navigating uncertainty from the Iran war. …
Darya Yegorina, founder of CleverBooks, has launched Arventa, an AI software designed in Ireland for Irish SMEs to streamline business operations and compliance. Arventa provides an all-in-one toolkit for startups and fr…
Chinese AI labs Z.ai and Moonshot AI released open-weight large language models GLM-5.2 and Kimi K3 this summer that rival the capability of top American closed models from Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI, which hold multi-tr…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup founded in 2023, unveiled its Kimi K3 model in mid-July 2026, featuring 2.8 trillion parameters and a 1 million token context window, which benchmarks say rivals GPT-5.6 and Claude Fa…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 model on July 16, 2026, featuring a 2.8 trillion-parameter size and million-token context window at roughly $12 per million tokens, triggering a global selloff in AI and s…
Top B2B events like SaaStr AI Annual do not sell attendee lists to sponsors, as doing so would undermine the value of in-person engagement. Instead, sponsors at SaaStr AI Annual average 470+ qualified leads through opt-i…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, claiming it matches or surpasses top-tier models from OpenAI and Anthropic on coding a…
China's Moonshot AI has released the Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion parameter model that rivals U.S. frontier systems like Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT 5.6 Sol in coding and agent benchmarks, narrowing the gap wi…