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Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, survived a board coup in November 2023 after being fired and reinstated within a week, highlighting the immense power concentration in AI. The incident reveals how platform mercantilism and sup…
Angel Armendariz, a 20-year enterprise sales veteran from AWS, released an open-source Claude Skill called Forward Deployed Selling (FDS) that encodes a sales methodology for the AI era. The skill, free and installable i…
Canadian LLM developer Cohere reports a surge in inbound interest after the US blocked Anthropic's latest models, positioning itself as a sovereign alternative to US AI providers.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, and MUFG are arranging $2.5 billion in debt financing to back AI-driven investment group Long Lake Management's $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel. …
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal comes days after SpaceX's IPO and months after its merger with xAI, as Cursor struggles with …
The Pokémon Trading Card Game AI Battle Challenge, organized by The Pokémon Company, invites AI developers to compete in a tournament where AI agents play the Pokémon TCG. The competition consists of a Simulation Categor…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, highlighting the booming vibe-coding market. Other startups like Lovable and Replit are raising billions as investors bet on AI-assisted coding tools that enable …
SpaceX announced it will acquire Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, four days after its Nasdaq debut at a $1.77 trillion valuation. The deal pairs Cursor's $2.6 billion annu…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal following its record-breaking IPO. The acquisition aims to combine Cursor's software with SpaceX's computin…
Leaked financial documents show OpenAI's revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025, but operating losses widened from $8.78 billion to $20.92 billion as expenses outpaced income. The company, which…
Mistral has adopted a plump cartoon cat as its mascot on the Vibe landing page, directly referencing the viral 'Le Chaton Fat' AI meme that briefly fooled researchers into thinking it was a real model. CEO Arthur Mensch …
Autumn shares lessons on architecting a billing system that minimizes maintenance and rebuilds, emphasizing treating billing data as relational and hierarchical rather than hardcoding plan configurations. The company arg…
AI agents are breaking the traditional software pricing model where value scales with human time, forcing a shift toward outcome-based or consumption-based pricing. Portfolio company Notehouse uses AI agents for recurrin…
PolyU Business School launched a Doctor of Business Administration in Artificial Intelligence (DBAI) program to train senior executives in AI-native leadership, addressing a gap in strategic AI adoption. The program aims…
DTE Energy has secured data center contracts totaling over 8 GW, including a 1.4 GW project backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and Related Digital, making it a top beneficiary of AI infrastructure investments. The utility plans a…
Plaud, a bootstrapped hardware company, has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after shipping over 2 million AI notetaker devices. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 2021, competes with software-only …
SpaceX shares surged over 11% on Tuesday, pushing its market capitalization past Amazon to become the fifth largest public company at nearly $2.8 trillion. The rally, driven by retail demand, options trading, and a low f…
BytePlus, the enterprise technology arm of ByteDance, hosted a closed-door AI roundtable at APOS 2026 in Bali, drawing senior executives from broadcasters and streaming platforms across six Asian markets to discuss gener…
ServiceNow (NOW) shares declined as the market shifts toward AI-native solutions, increasing competition for legacy platforms. The company faces pressure from newer, AI-first alternatives that are gaining adoption among …
Subquadratic released the model card and technical report for SubQ 1.1 Small, a long-context model using Subquadratic Sparse Attention, on June 16. The company claims the model achieves 100% retrieval accuracy at 1 milli…