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Hyperscale Data, an NYSE American-listed AI data center company, increased its Bitcoin holdings by 4.62 BTC to 713.58 BTC, valued at approximately $46.9 million. The company is pursuing a $100 million digital asset treas…
Anthropic released a playbook for building AI-native startups, remapping the four core stages of the startup lifecycle—Idea, MVP, Launch, and Scale—for what's possible in 2026, with practical exercises and prompts for us…
Vaisala has signed an agreement to acquire Atmo, Inc., a San Francisco-based AI weather company, for a fixed purchase price of USD 70 million plus up to USD 60 million in earn-outs. The deal, expected to close by end of …
Hyosung Group opened its first AI data center in Seoul with Singapore's STT GDC, targeting Korea's data center market projected to reach 20 trillion won by 2030. The hyperscale facility, STT Seoul 1, combines Hyosung's p…
A practical founder's guide breaks down the costs of building a SaaS MVP in 2026, explaining that prices typically range from $3,000 to over $30,000 depending on feature complexity, authentication, dashboard design, bill…
Hedgeye analyst Felix Wang recommends a short position on Chinese AI stock Zhipu, calling it 'one of the biggest bubbles I've ever seen' after a 1,100% rally since its January IPO. Wang sets a fair value target of HK$407…
Aitrainer.work, a job board for data annotation roles launched six months ago, has evolved into a hybrid platform with reviews, educational resources, and a talent pool, reaching 10k monthly visitors and on track to hit …
HFCL Ltd. shares surged nearly 200% in six months as investors bet on India's data-centre expansion and AI-related capital expenditure. The company reported FY26 consolidated revenue of Rs 4,949 crore and secured a major…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recent layoffs, expressed…
Amazon has invested in Archetype AI, a startup developing a physical-world simulation model called Newton, through its Industrial Innovation Fund. The tech giant also partnered with NVIDIA and MassRobotics to launch the …
SpaceX has acquired Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding agent Cursor, to build a proprietary AI coding agent model. The deal signals a shift toward vertical integration in developer tools, with plans to deepen model tr…
China's securities regulator is pushing artificial intelligence companies to list on domestic and Hong Kong exchanges, reshaping capital-raising for the tech sector. Over 85% of Chinese AI-related IPOs in 2026 landed on …
Baillie Gifford is poised to more than triple its investment in Anthropic when the AI company goes public this summer, just months after netting a £3.6bn gain from SpaceX's IPO. The Scottish investment firm's three flags…
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a June 17 Real-Time Age…
Visa and Mastercard have announced AI agent payment capabilities, but these solutions are retrofits of legacy card infrastructure, not true autonomous payment systems. Catena Labs, founded by Circle co-founder Sean Nevil…
A Hacker News user asks how likely it is that SpaceX buys OpenAI, suggesting the idea could inflate SpaceX's stock and provide an exit for OpenAI. Another user dismisses the possibility as zero given the personalities in…
SoftBank Group is struggling to find Latin American startups ready for major investments, completing only two new deals in the past two years as the region's tech boom cools. Managing partner Alex Szapiro said it is hard…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, minting four MIT classmates in their mid-20s as multibillionaires. Each co-founder owns about 9% of Cursor, worth $5.5 billion, as t…
OpenAI's ChatGPT lost its majority share of the AI assistant market for the first time, dropping to 46.4% as of May 31, according to Sensor Tower data. The decline follows OpenAI's controversial Pentagon deal, a shift to…
A developer created a free alternative to Crunchbase by using AI agents to research startups and compile detailed profiles, addressing the $49/month cost barrier. The platform includes measures to reduce AI hallucination…