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VAST Data has emerged as the dominant storage supplier to neoclouds, with a 600 PB capacity win at Australia's Sharon AI. Neoclouds, which specialize in GPU-compute-heavy AI services, saw collective revenues of $23-25 bi…
Michaels CEO David Boone urged young workers to stop daydreaming and take action, sharing his own career risks that led to his CEO role. Boone and Amazon CEO Andy Jassy advised entry-level professionals to embrace uncert…
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, just days after its record-breaking IPO. The acquisition consolidates AI development tools under SpaceX, giving it acce…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60bn in an all-stock deal, as its market valuation surged past Amazon to $2.75 trillion following a record-breaking IPO. The acquisition aims to combine Cursor's AI coding to…
OpenAI executed three strategic moves in four days: acquiring cloud development platform Ona to give its Codex AI agents persistent, secure cloud workspaces; partnering with Oracle to let enterprises use existing cloud c…
Plaud announced its software business surpassed $100 million in annualized recurring revenue after shipping over 2 million AI-powered notetakers. The company targets professionals with screenless devices that record and …
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Burrus has joined High Point University as its Artificial Intelligence Expert in Residence, where he will share expertise in AI, anticipatory leadership, and disruptive innovation…
SpaceX is acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, concluding a deal announced in April. The acquisition aims to bolster SpaceX's xAI division, which has faced controversies including Grok chatbot inc…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with dexterous hands and a foundation model called GENE, positioning it as a cheaper, more practical alternative to humanoids. The French-American startup has raised $105 million …
SpaceX has secured a $60 billion deal to bolster its AI business, with Elon Musk targeting $1 trillion in revenue.
Ent, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Microsoft Security Copilot builders Elias Manousos and Brandon Dixon, emerged from stealth with a $100 million seed round led by Decibel, marking one of the largest seed rou…
Sciene launched an AI Companion platform on Databricks to automate customer success workflows for Quartile, the world's largest retail media optimization platform. The platform ingests data, runs AI inference, and serves…
SpaceX announced a $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding tool Cursor, on June 16, 2026. The acquisition aims to combine Anysphere's distribution capabilities with SpaceX's supercom…
MWC Barcelona 2026 focused on AI infrastructure, with companies like Supermicro, NVIDIA, and telecom giants showcasing AI-RAN and sovereign AI solutions. CME Group launched the first compute futures contracts for GPU ren…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot with two arms and an adjustable body, on June 16, 2026. CEO Zhou Xian said the company plans to produce dozens of robots by year-end and begin small-scale deployme…
SpaceX surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on June 16, 2026, three days after its Nasdaq IPO, with shares rising 8% to a valuation of $2.74 trillion. The same day, SpaceX announced a $60 billion stock acquisition o…
SoundHound AI disclosed a risky strategy for identifying potential acquisition targets, involving the use of debt and stock to fund deals. The company aims to expand its voice AI platform through acquisitions, but the ap…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, granting Cursor's investors equity in SpaceX instead of cash. The acquisition, expected to close in Q3 2026, will result in approxim…
Limitless Labs, a two-year-old Israeli startup, raised $20M in Series A funding for its AI agent that programs CNC machining, already used by Blue Origin and Cadillac's F1 team. The company aims to capture veteran machin…
Tech workers at Amazon, Google, Snap, and Nike told Business Insider that networking helps land interviews but preparation and communication skills are what secure job offers in a selective hiring environment amid cost-c…