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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…
SpaceX has acquired Cursor in an all-stock transaction to build the world's most useful AI models. The two companies have been jointly training a model, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
AIRS Medical, a global leader in AI-powered MRI solutions, announced a strategic growth investment from private equity firm TA Associates to accelerate global expansion and product innovation. The company's AI-native sof…
HIVE Digital Technologies announced plans for a CAD $3.5 billion, 320 MW AI gigafactory in the Greater Toronto Area, targeting over 100,000 GPUs by late 2027. The former crypto miner reported fiscal year 2026 revenue of …
Swedish startup Lightbringer raised $10m in Series A funding to expand its AI-native patent firm into the US, aiming to replace traditional patent attorneys with a fixed-price subscription model that bundles IP strategy,…
Anthropic, the AI safety company that spent six months warning about the technology's risks, saw the White House shut down its flagship models after the Pentagon designated it a supply chain risk and the company filed fo…
AMD acquired predictive memory technology startup MEXT to address the memory wall bottleneck in AI deployments. MEXT's AI-driven software optimizes memory by combining DRAM and flash, aiming to reduce server memory costs…
SpaceX surpassed Amazon to become the world's fifth-most valuable company with a $2.7 trillion valuation, driven by a 20% stock surge on Monday and further gains Tuesday after announcing a $60 billion acquisition of AI s…
A hedge-fund manager and early SpaceX investor declares that the AI 'bottleneck trade' has ended, signaling a shift in investment strategy within the artificial intelligence sector.
Western Digital, Micron Technology, and Sandisk hit all-time highs as AI infrastructure demand shifts focus to data storage, with shares surging over 200% in 2026. Ondo Finance launched tokenized versions of these stocks…
A startup called Probably has raised $9 million in a seed round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Accel to catch AI factual errors using a weaker model instead of a smarter one. The company's 'verifiable data agent' runs…
Probably, a San Francisco-based AI startup founded by Peter Elias, raised $9 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to build a reliability layer that prevents AI hallucinations. The company targets 99.99% acc…
Genesis AI unveiled its first general-purpose robot, Eno, on June 16, rejecting the humanoid form in favor of a wheeled base and dexterous hands, betting that human-level manipulation does not require a human shape. The …
Nvidia is backing Hydra Host, a startup that raised $100 million in Series A funding to build a marketplace for renting GPU capacity, effectively commoditizing Nvidia's own chips. The company, founded in 2021 for crypto …
Brent Ozar is discontinuing SQL ConstantCare and the Consultant Toolkit due to increasing AI-driven security risks, lower-than-expected cloud adoption, and insufficient product adoption. The company is also laying off lo…
Probably raised $9 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz to build a more reliable AI system that prevents hallucinations and factual errors. The startup's first product is a data science tool that uses a deter…
SpaceX has finalized a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, founded by 25-year-old former Google intern Michael Truell. The deal marks one of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories, with Truell now wort…