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SpaceX briefly surpassed Amazon to become the fifth-most valuable company in the world, with its valuation spiking to $2.9 trillion before settling back down. The surge followed news of its acquisition of AI coding compa…
VanEck's Matthew Sigel outlined a valuation framework for Bitcoin miners pivoting to AI, revealing a $37.6 billion opportunity. Miners with contracted AI capacity trade above 10x EV/EBITDA, while pipeline-stage companies…
SpaceX announced a $60 billion stock deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, raising uncertainty for CIOs and developers. Analysts are divided on whether the acquisition will benefit Cursor's customers, with concerns a…
Snap launched Specs, a $2,195 pair of augmented reality glasses, at AWE USA 2026. The glasses feature dual Snapdragon chips, hand tracking, voice control, and a 51-degree field of view, and are available for pre-order in…
Genesis AI unveiled its humanoid robot Eno, a wheeled mobile manipulator, for deployment in LG factories in South Korea. The $105 million startup partnered with LG CNS to use Eno in manufacturing and logistics, with ship…
Four cofounders of AI coding startup Cursor, all in their mid-20s, became billionaires after SpaceX acquired the company for $60 billion in an all-stock deal following its IPO. The founders each held approximately 4.5% e…
Three AI-focused ETFs have surged recently, but an analyst recommends skipping them in favor of buying the Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) instead, citing broader exposure and lower costs.
Rackspace Technology partnered with AMD to deploy 30 megawatts of AMD-based AI compute across its global data centers, targeting regulated industries like healthcare and finance. To fund the pivot, the company cut roughl…
AI-driven fintech startup Corgi launched 50 ETFs in a single week, including 41 new filings, accounting for roughly half of all ETF launches in June. The products span leveraged, buffer, fixed-income, and insider-ownersh…
Pegasus Tech Ventures launched a $60 million corporate venture capital fund with CYBERDYNE Inc. to invest in startups developing robotics, physical AI, healthcare, automation, and intelligent systems. The fund will focus…
The Nasdaq Composite and S&P 500 slipped on Tuesday as technology stocks declined, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high. SpaceX surpassed Amazon's market value to become the fifth-most valuable U.S. c…
Tailwind CEO Adam Wathan laid off 75% of the engineering team, blaming AI for the business's decline. The real issue is that Tailwind UI, which sold copy-pasteable component templates, had a shallow moat that AI easily e…
Semianalysis identified server rack bottlenecks as a new constraint in AI infrastructure, driving Supermicro's stock higher. The research highlights that GPU advances are outpacing CPU resources, with rack-scale systems …
AMD and Rackspace Technology signed a definitive agreement for a phased 30 MW deployment of AMD-based AI compute across Rackspace's global data centers, starting late 2026 through 2028. The deal positions AMD as a strate…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei explained to Bloomberg why he left OpenAI in 2020 to found a competitor focused on AI safety, citing a gap between OpenAI's stated safety commitments and its actual direction under CEO Sam Altm…
The World Bank approved $650 million in programs for Morocco on June 12, 2026, including a $250 million digital transformation program supporting AI innovation centers and startup financing under the Digital Morocco 2030…
Equinix announced an expanded collaboration with Cisco and NVIDIA to deploy the Cisco Secure AI Factory with NVIDIA across its global data centers, providing enterprise customers with standardized blueprints and automati…
Bland, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures and others. The company, which processes over 3.5 million c…
Brandon Bussi, a 27-year-old goaltender for the Carolina Hurricanes, became the first American goalie to clinch the Stanley Cup with a shutout since Jonathan Quick in 2014, after being claimed off waivers from the Florid…
Snap Inc. has opened pre-orders for its consumer augmented reality glasses, Snap Specs, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit. The lightweight, see-through AR glasses run on Snap OS 2.0 and feature AI integrations fro…