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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 …
Oracle shares have fallen 43.6% in the past year after S&P Global downgraded its credit rating to BBB-, just above junk status, and analyst David Desjardins warns the company could be the 'first domino to fall' in a majo…
Sable, a startup less than a year old, has raised $45 million from Sequoia Capital and 8VC for its AI employee named Aiden, which can run live product walk-throughs and switch languages mid-conversation. Sequoia partner …
The Raindance Film Festival has partnered with Israeli AI creative development platform IMGN to launch a £10,000 ($13,394) film fund and a dedicated development hub for independent filmmakers, announced at the 34th Raind…
TSMC posted a 77.4% year-over-year profit jump to NT$706.6 billion ($22 billion) for Q2 2026, its fifth consecutive record quarter, as AI chip demand surged, but chip stocks showed muted reaction. Revenue climbed 36% to …
Chinese AI models peaked at 46% of US enterprise token usage in a single week this summer, up from 4.5% eighteen months ago, according to a CNBC investigation of OpenRouter traffic published July 7. The surge is driven b…
Britain's AI opportunity depends on infrastructure, alliances with India, and public trust, Kanishka Narayan MP told an Indiaspora dinner of 40 Indian-origin business leaders and policymakers in London. Indian High Commi…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted June 2026 revenue of NT$442.68 billion ($14 billion), a 68% year-over-year jump, and first-half revenue of NT$2.4 trillion ($75 billion), up 35.6%, driven by AI chip dema…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $60 billion-$64 billion and boosted its 2025 revenue growth projection to slightly more than 40%, citing strong AI chip demand…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, released June 9, was placed under U.S. export controls three days later, forcing a global disable until restrictions lifted June 30, with temporary free access extended through July 19. Indepe…
Bunkerhill Health, a startup deploying AI agents to handle hospital tasks such as reducing wait times and paperwork backlogs, has raised $55 million in total funding, including a $25 million Series B led by Khosla Ventur…
Moonshot AI is preparing to launch Kimi K3, the successor to its K2 model family, with beta users spotting the model in selectors and a mystery checkpoint called Kivine appearing on LM Arena. The Mixture-of-Experts model…
Thinking Machines Lab, the San Francisco startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has released Inkling, its first general-purpose AI model with 975 billion total parameters and 41 billion active, offering US ent…
AI startup valuations are skyrocketing, but finding the next Anthropic—now valued at $1.2 trillion after Menlo Ventures' 2023 bet at a $4.1 billion valuation—will get harder as easy entry and new investors flood the mark…
Southeast Asia risks missing the AI boom because the region 'has not really moved up the value chain' and contributes only 6% of global intermediate manufacturing versus 15% for China, Standard Chartered’s chief ASEAN ec…
Chinese AI firms have surged to over 30% of AI token usage among US firms weekly since US export controls on Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models in June 2026, with DeepSeek, Z.ai, and Alibaba's Qwen offering models p…
State Affairs announced $70 million in total funding on July 14 to expand its AI-powered policy and regulatory intelligence platform, backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners and Alumni Ventures. The …
Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restrictions temporarily b…
Robinhood executives Stephanie Guild and Steve Quirk, along with Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi, explain that investors are ignoring losses at SpaceX and OpenAI due to powerful visions of the future and unpre…