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Flick is a new email app that turns inboxes into swipe decks, letting users flick through emails one card at a time to archive, mark "no reply needed," or approve an AI draft. The app is free for triage features, with AI…
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched on July 8, 2026, achieved a 29.0% resolution rate on the SWE Marathon benchmark, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 (26.0%) and Fable (24.0%), and posted an 83.3% rate on Terminal-Bench 2.1, with API …
Some investors are repositioning portfolios for a slowdown in hyperscaler spending growth, betting the near-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure boom may decelerate. UBS projects hyperscaler capex will rise 76% this year to…
Databricks announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation, led by existing investor Coatue, to accelerate its AI strategy. The company will use the capital to strengthen Unity AI Gateway, expand Genie, and advan…
Fora, a platform that lets ordinary people become travel agents, has raised a $60m Series D at a $1bn valuation led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with total funding reaching $138.5m. The company has over 15,000 adv…
Zhipu, now trading as Knowledge Atlas Technology, has seen its shares surge nearly 1,500 percent since its Hong Kong debut in January, briefly pushing its market capitalization above $100 billion, despite reporting just …
Coronation Fund Managers, a South African firm overseeing roughly $47 billion in assets, has reduced its positions in TSMC and SK Hynix, redirecting capital toward Indian equities due to concerns that AI-related stock va…
Meta plans to hire a senior executive from Amazon's cloud division as it accelerates its push into cloud computing with Meta Compute, a venture that monetizes excess AI computing capacity. The company plans to spend betw…
SK Hynix's American depositary receipts raised $26.5 billion in the second-biggest share sale in Wall Street history on July 10, but the stock has since swung wildly, with a 13% debut gain followed by a 15.4% plunge in S…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, priced at $3/$15 per million input/output tokens — matching Claude Sonnet 4.x pricing and undercutting GPT-5…
Chinese President Xi Jinping made his first appearance at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on July 17, praising China's low-cost AI breakthroughs and calling for an open international technologica…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a post-money valuation above $50 billion and becoming China's most valuable AI startup. Investors include Tencent and CA…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, topped Arena.ai's Frontend Code leaderboard with 1,679 points, beating Claude Opus 4.8 and other frontier models, and is priced at $3 per million input t…
Coatue Management is leading a $3 billion investment in Databricks, valuing the data and AI company at $188 billion, up from $134 billion five months earlier. The round comes as Databricks' annualized revenue run rate hi…
Economist Tyler Cowen argues in a Free Press column that the future belongs to 'AI maniacs'—people obsessed with mastering the latest AI models to transform their workflows and personal lives. Cowen, a member of Anthropi…
Ollama, the 14-person team behind the open-source AI model runner, closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88M. The tool now runs inside 85% of the Fortune 500, with 52 million monthly d…
Belgian biotech Sightera raised €3 million to reverse the typical AI drug discovery process by first analyzing extreme patient biology to identify novel drug targets. The company's approach aims to improve clinical succe…
Kioxia's market cap dropped roughly 50% from its June 2026 peak, erasing approximately 29.5 trillion yen ($181.7B), after the stock surged more than 600% year-to-date on AI memory demand. The decline began with speculati…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model claimed to be the world's largest publicly available AI system, approaching the performance of Anthropic's withdrawn Fable model. T…
Databricks is set to reach a $188 billion valuation through a new investment from hedge fund Coatue Management, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal underscores the soaring demand for AI infrastructur…