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Stripe is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, in a deal that could value the company at about $10 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report on July 23, 2026. The acquisition would extend Str…
Prosper Medical, co-founded by Ryan McQuaid and Dr. James Wantuck, has raised $16 million to expand its AI-supported concierge primary-care membership. The financing was led by FUSE, with participation from Aurum Partner…
Anthropic and OpenAI launched updates to their voice AI tools on Thursday, giving users more control over AI models through speech. OpenAI's GPT-Live is now available in the ChatGPT desktop app, enabling voice-controlled…
The basis of competition in AI has shifted from individual components to complete platforms, according to theCUBE Research. TensorWave Inc. has introduced ScalarLM, a fully open-source AI platform for training, fine-tuni…
Palabra.ai claims the world's fastest text-to-speech latency at 104 ms time to first audio, based on an independent benchmark by Coval that ranks it ahead of ElevenLabs and Cartesia. The company says its architecture rea…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced the Helios rack-scale AI system and sixth-generation Epyc 9006 Series CPUs at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on July 23, directly challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI infrastructur…
Elon Musk is building a domestic chip factory called Terafab in Texas through a joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX, aiming to break U.S. dependence on foreign semiconductor suppliers without government subsidies. The…
Chinese artificial intelligence models will significantly reduce the cost of AI adoption, according to Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC, which expects strong growth in Chinese AI companies but remains cautious about s…
Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC is bullish on artificial intelligence but warns that the amount of capital flowing into the AI ecosystem poses the largest market risk factor, more so than any country, industry or sec…
Stripe Inc. is in talks to acquire OpenRouter, a marketplace for AI models, for approximately $10 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal would mark one of the largest acquisitions in the AI secto…
Great Sky, a Boulder startup founded by former NIST researcher Jeffrey Shainline, has sold $25.9 million of a planned $30.72 million securities offering for superconducting AI hardware, according to a July 23 SEC filing.…
Atoms, an industrial automation startup led by Uber Technologies Inc. co-founder Travis Kalanick, has closed a $1.7 billion investment led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Uber and more than a half-dozen o…
Elon Musk told investors on Tesla's Q2 earnings call that the Optimus humanoid robot will be the hardest product Tesla has ever scaled, warning that it has no existing supply chain and every component is new. Tesla quiet…
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled the Helios rack-scale system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, positioning it as the industry's highest-performance AI rack to compete with Nvidia's Vera Rubin and …
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, raised a $36 million Series A led by Battery Ventures, with existing investors Accel and Foundation Capital participating, bringing total fu…
The White House accused Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI of accessing restricted Nvidia GB300 chips in Thailand to train its Kimi K3 model, which surpassed U.S. competitors on key benchmarks. White House Office of Science …
AMD launched MI455X chips, Helios racks, and Venice Epyc CPUs at its Advancing AI event, with OpenAI and Cerebras pledging to deploy the hardware at scale. CEO Lisa Su predicted the total addressable market will reach $2…
AI agents Devin and GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra have reportedly solved long-standing graph theory problems, with Devin refuting Graffiti Conjecture 154 and proving Conjectures 39 and 40, and OpenAI claiming GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produ…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng, in a rare four-hour talk with investors on May 20, argued that China's only real gap with the U.S. in AI is compute and that America's lead among top models is cyclical. He described AGI a…
ASRock Rack Inc. announced support for the newly-launched 6th Gen AMD EPYC 9006 Series processors, unveiled at AMD Advancing AI 2026 in San Francisco, and will showcase upcoming server platforms optimized for the new pro…