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Three AI-focused ETFs are positioned to capitalize on the memory boom driven by rising demand for AI chips and data storage, according to a Yahoo Finance analysis. The ETFs—AIQ, BOTZ, and ROBO—offer diversified exposure …
Lila Sciences is building a scientific superintelligence by turning laboratories into AI-guided data centers that generate over 10 trillion experimentally validated reasoning tokens. CTO Andy Beam and CSO Rafa Gómez-Bomb…
Chinese AI startups are pivoting to lightweight models designed to run on smartphones and laptops, betting on faster processing, data privacy and lower costs. Beijing-based ModelBest raised over 5 billion yuan (US$738 mi…
Hemispheric, a Tel Aviv-based NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID inventor, emerged from stealth with $52M to develop Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter AI model trained on 250,000 hours of brain recordings that reads …
Fireworks AI has reached a $17.5 billion valuation as enterprises increasingly seek cheaper alternatives to proprietary AI models, the company announced. The inference startup, which operates a pay-per-token platform for…
AI startup hoodies from OpenAI and Anthropic are selling for up to $250 on eBay, reflecting a desire for cultural capital and proximity to Silicon Valley's innovation engine as IPOs remain elusive. The phenomenon highlig…
Mira Murati launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights AI model, on July 15, admitting it is not the strongest overall model but betting that enterprise customization will outcompete scale. Thinking Machines,…
Climate tech funding surged 55% year-over-year to $26.1 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by AI's growing energy demands, with low-carbon datacenter developers capturing 34% of all climate investments, up from 3%…
A secondary market for AI startup swag is booming on eBay, with used OpenAI and Anthropic hoodies, t-shirts, and pens selling for hundreds of dollars. An OpenAI Codex box set recently fetched $475, a used OpenAI sweatshi…
Sable has closed a $45 million funding round led by Sequoia Capital after Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire watched the startup's AI sales rep fluidly switch between English, Mandarin, and Spanish in a single buyer conversat…
OpenAI's release of the GPT-5.6 family, alongside xAI's Grok 4.5 and Meta's Muse Spark, signals a shift away from monolithic AI models toward multi-model architectures, according to an analysis of industry benchmarks. Ch…
Nokia and Nvidia have built the industry's first commercial AI-RAN platform, aiming to double network capacity by 2028. Nokia says the AI-native radio access network can lift spectral efficiency by more than 100% by 2028…
Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering by October 2026 after a Series H funding round valued the company at $965 billion, making it the world's most valua…
Airbus signed a multi-year agreement with French cloud provider Scaleway to migrate hundreds of critical applications, including defense and AI workloads, away from US cloud giants, signaling Europe's push for digital so…
Sequoia Capital led a $45 million investment into Sable, a San Francisco startup whose product Aidan is marketed as the first AI employee that can perform sales tasks such as running product demos and onboarding customer…
The Bay Area captured 51.5% of all AI venture dollars and 53.2% of all B2B dollars from July 2025 through June 2026, according to Carta's Startup Ecosystem Leaderboard, which tracked $124 billion invested into startups o…
Microsoft is training its sales teams to position its proprietary MAI models as superior to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, marking a strategic shift away from its partnership with OpenAI. During an internal planning sess…
Microsoft is training its sales teams to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as part of a strategy to emphasize its AI ecosystem including Copilot, Azure AI, and Fabric. The company's annual AI revenue has reached…
The AI market is bifurcating into expensive frontier models and cheap 'good enough' models, with Grok 4.5 priced at $6/MTok output signaling a margin collapse, according to analyst Ben Thompson. Semiconductor companies a…
Chinese AI models are catching up with American counterparts by offering cost-effective, domain-specific solutions, with training costs significantly lower than U.S. tech giants' tens of millions per run. This strategic …