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Salesforce agreed to acquire AI customer-service company Fin for approximately $3.6 billion, aiming to bolster its Agentforce platform with a packaged autonomous support solution. The deal, expected to close in Q4 of fis…
Emerald AI, a Virginia-based startup backed by NVIDIA, tested its Conductor software in Phoenix and the UK, claiming it can reduce data center power consumption by up to 40% during peak grid stress without sacrificing AI…
Anthropic has paused a planned billing overhaul for its Claude Agent SDK that would have separated SDK and third-party app usage from subscription limits, reversing course just before the June 15, 2026 implementation dat…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a $50 billion valuation. Investors, including Tencent and CATL, contributed to a limited partnership with no voting righ…
A developer with no formal coding experience who shipped three AI SaaS products switched from Claude Desktop to Antigravity, citing cost efficiency as the primary driver. The developer found that Antigravity's latest upd…
Silicon Valley companies like Meta, Amazon, and Salesforce are grappling with soaring costs from AI token usage, co-opting the term 'tokenomics' from crypto to describe budgeting for large language model queries. Uber ex…
A developer argues that many AI startups waste money on GPUs by paying for uptime rather than actual usage, leading to low utilization and unnecessary infrastructure costs. The developer proposes a usage-based model wher…
OpenAI spent $34 billion in the past year, with $19 billion on R&D and $6 billion on sales and marketing, while generating $13 billion in revenue. The company's net loss jumped to $39 billion, largely due to a one-time $…
HCLTech acquired a 10.46% stake in Sarvam AI for ₹1,427 crore as the lead strategic investor in the startup's Series B, which has a first close of $234 million toward a planned $300 million round, valuing Sarvam AI at $1…
Tensordyne announced Napier, a 3nm AI processor and rack-scale inference platform using logarithmic math to reduce multiplier area and improve inference economics. The company claims its TDN72 rack can outperform larger …
South Korea's presidential chief of staff for policy, Kim Yong-beom, proposed a "national dividend" plan to redistribute excess tax revenues from AI infrastructure profits to citizens, causing the Kospi index to drop 5.1…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code, a coding-focused agent model with 1 trillion total parameters and a 256K context window, aimed at multi-step software engineering tasks. The Beijing lab positions the open-weight mode…
IREN Limited, formerly Iris Energy, acquired Spanish data center developer Ingenostrum, adding 490 megawatts of grid-connected power capacity in Spain. The deal marks IREN's expansion into Europe and its pivot from Bitco…
David Selinger, CEO of Deep Sentinel, worked at Amazon in the early 2000s as manager of customer behavior research, meeting with Jeff Bezos once or twice a week. Selinger describes Bezos as intensely visionary, teaching …
Animoca Brands extended the application deadline for its $10 million Minds Investment Programme to June 26, offering capital and platform credits to early-stage teams building on its agentic AI platform. The first invest…
Bitcoin miners are shutting down rigs and pivoting to AI infrastructure as the network hashrate drops 23% from its October peak, with listed miners potentially earning 70% of revenues from AI by year-end, according to Co…
ByteDance and Tencent have slashed AI model prices, joining a deepening price war in China's AI sector as falling costs and narrowing capability gaps intensify competition. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 Mini is half the price…
OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than double its $13bn revenue, as it prepares for a potential $1tn IPO. The company's massive spending on R&D, infrastructure, and staffing reflects the high cost of leading the AI race, …
Top 10 foundries saw 3.7% QoQ revenue growth in Q1 2026, driven by AI and consumer electronics, according to TrendForce. TSMC's market share grows on advanced AI chips, while SMIC gains from consumer demand, reflecting a…
South Korean AI firm Upstage announced it will integrate its AI model, workplace tools, and web portal into a single platform, betting on a home-grown stack to compete without relying on US or Chinese technology. The com…