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Mizuho Securities analyst Daniel O'Regan named Micron Technology the third most important stock globally behind Nvidia and Alphabet, citing AI-driven demand that has sold out all of Micron's 2026 high-bandwidth memory pr…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full open weights under an Apache 2.0 license. Inkling sc…
Sunday Robotics' Memo robot achieves a 99% success rate in folding laundry in unfamiliar homes, powered by the ACT-2 AI model that adapts to new environments. CEO Tony Zhao predicts autonomous home robots will become via…
A new report reveals that 107 enterprises are racing to invest in AI infrastructure, but 83% report GPU utilization at 50% or less and fewer than half can track compute costs. Only 21% run AI in production at scale, yet …
Sunday Robotics unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model powering its Memo home robot that folds laundry successfully more than 99% of the time in unfamiliar homes on garments it has never seen before. The Bay Area-based startup a…
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are guiding for between $635 billion and $665 billion in combined 2026 capital expenditure, with some estimates reaching $725 billion, as earnings reports begin this week. Amazon lea…
Anthropic's valuation is projected to reach $1.25 trillion by year-end, driven by an AI infrastructure boom that is reshaping enterprise spending, according to prediction-market data showing 89.5% odds of the outcome. Th…
Moonshot AI is preparing to release Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2 trillion to 3 trillion parameters, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 pricing. The Beijing startup, valued at $20 billion after a $2 …
Alpaca Markets closed a $135 million funding round led by Peak XV on July 16, 2026, to build AI agent trading infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets. The developer-centric brokerage API provider saw its mon…
Arya, an AI-driven relationship wellness startup, has acquired Flamme, a couples-focused app with 200,000 users, to integrate monetization tools and enhance user engagement. Arya CEO Offer Yehudai said the move combines …
Goldman Sachs led a $100 million Series D round for Spectro Cloud, a Santa Clara startup whose PaletteAI software manages GPU clusters across different chip vendors and clouds, bringing total funding to $260 million. The…
Adaptional, an AI-powered insurance claims review startup and Y Combinator S25 batch member, is hiring a Founding GTM Lead and a Founding Engineer in San Francisco, with salaries ranging from $140K to $280K and equity up…
Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, has raised $18 million for his new AI-powered matchmaking company Overtone, which aims to replace traditional dating apps with curated introductions based on relationship science and user…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) announced an additional $100 billion investment in the United States, bringing its total U.S. investment to $265 billion, as the company posted a 77% surge in second-quarter …
Arya, a relationship wellness AI startup, acquired Flamme, an app with activities for couples, in a deal sparked by a LinkedIn DM from Flamme founder An Nayal to Arya CEO Offer Yehudai. Arya will integrate its monetizati…
Traceforce (YC S26) launches company-wide security monitoring for AI apps, providing a lightweight binary and browser extension that gives security teams real-time visibility into AI agents and tools running on employee …
Meta's data center expansion plans could help address its rising AI infrastructure costs, according to the company. The social media giant is investing in new facilities to support its artificial intelligence workloads, …
Fireworks raised $1.5bn in Series D funding at a $17.5bn valuation to build specialized AI models for companies, arguing that businesses will build their own intelligence rather than rent it from big labs. The San Mateo …
Sable raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC to build Aidan, an AI system that runs live product demonstrations and replaces sales development workflows. The less-than-year-old startup trains Aidan on a company'…
Bunkerhill Health raised $55M in total funding, including a $25M Series B led by Khosla Ventures, to deploy AI agents inside hospitals through its Carebricks platform. The startup grew revenue 20-fold over the past year …