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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model claimed to be the world's largest publicly available AI system, approaching the performance of Anthropic's withdrawn Fable model.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…
Nvidia and Fujitsu have unveiled a physical-AI initiative with Fanuc, Yaskawa Electric and Kawasaki Heavy Industries to develop a common control platform for robots across manufacturing, logistics and healthcare, even as…
Investor sentiment on China's technology hardware sector has dropped to its most bearish reading in over four years, according to fund managers, as the STAR 50 Index's 62-64% surge in Q2 2026 fades amid concerns that val…
Beijing-based Moonshot AI on July 16 unveiled Kimi K3, the largest open-weight AI model with approximately 2.7 trillion parameters using a Mixture-of-Experts architecture, nearly doubling the 1.6 trillion parameters of D…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.7-trillion-parameter open-weight large language model, on July 16, claiming it performs competitively with Anthropic's Fable 5 and substantially outperforms Anthropic's O…
Nokaze, a one-human company run by a field worker named jun with an AI team, generated ¥0 revenue in three months despite shipping multiple products and publishing 32 articles. The AI CTO Zen reports that B2B outreach yi…
An MBA and cyber project manager who built a trading risk automation tool using AI coding tools reports zero traction six days after launch, with only three posts, two followers, and essentially no visitors. The creator,…
A regulatory filing by Chinese textile company Anhui Korrun disclosed that a fund tied to one of its subsidiaries invested 2.90 billion yuan for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, valuing the AI lab at about 350.88 b…
China's AI companies are poised to deliver robust earnings, with some along the chip supply chain flagging profit surges exceeding 1,000%, but elevated expectations after a months-long rally have made it harder for tech …
Seattle startup logcat.ai announced a $2.55 million pre-seed round to build agentic AI systems for the operating-system, kernel, and firmware layer, enabling autonomous parsing of system logs and diagnosis of kernel pani…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scored 93.5% on GPQA Diamond and 91.2% on BrowseComp, positioning it near frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The model uses sparsity w…
A regulatory filing from Chinese luggage manufacturer Anhui Korrun reveals an implied valuation of approximately $51.82 billion for AI startup DeepSeek, based on a 0.8265% indirect stake purchased for 2.9 billion yuan ($…
Leapd, an AI platform that builds and runs businesses 24/7, enables founders to launch new ventures from a single sentence or grow existing ones by automating operations across channels. Users report significant results,…
A developer is building a conversational symbolic AI model, arguing that non-neural architectures offer computational efficiency and the ability to maintain millions of lines of reasoning. The developer, a beginner progr…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on OpenRouter on July 9, but restricted access to US developers only, according to Meta's developer announcement. The open-weight, multimodal coding model is priced at $1.25 per million input…
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55 million in seed funding for his startup Elorian AI at a $300 million valuation before building any product, with backing from Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, and Striker Ventur…
A former pilot turned entrepreneur founded RendeRex, a Dubai-based hardware company, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, initially aiming to sell 3D rendering workstations but pivoting to AI workstations after adding '…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters, outperforms proprietary systems like Claude Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 high on benchmarks, scoring an Elo rating of 1547 in long-horizon knowledge work…