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Anthropic has filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC, signaling progress toward a potential initial public offering by the end of 2026, according to prediction-market data from Polymarket that shows a 78% probability of t…
RoboStrategy's tokenized shares on Solana outtraded the underlying Nasdaq-listed stock on a Sunday, with the fund's CEO Andrew Kang calling it the 'MicroStrategy of robotics.' The closed-end fund, which invests in privat…
Hitachi and Nvidia are deepening their collaboration on multi-agent orchestration technology to supercharge Hitachi's HMAX suite of enterprise AI solutions, building supervisor/worker agent models on Nvidia's AI Data Pla…
Applied Computing, a London-based startup building a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry, has raised a $20 million Series A led by engineering giant KBR, with Databricks Ventures participating…
Emergent CEO Mukund Jha said AI will enhance rather than replace developers, as the demand for software grows exponentially. The vibe-coding startup, which launched in 2025, recently raised $130 million in Series C fundi…
TSMC is expected to report a record net profit of NT$632.6 billion (US$19.65 billion) for the second quarter, a 59% surge driven by booming global demand for AI infrastructure, according to an LSEG SmartEstimate compiled…
MIT researchers have published a non-generative test for CSAM-tuned AI models called Gaussian probing, which checks LoRA-adapted diffusion models by reading internal activations instead of producing illegal outputs. The …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weights AI model under the Apache 2.0 license, which uses a Mixture-of-Experts architecture to activate only…
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. reported second-quarter revenue of about $39.6 billion, a record, with June alone bringing in NT$442.68 billion, as the company's numbers are seen as a verdict on whether the AI spe…
KT Corp. is training forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) with Palantir Technologies to expand its B2B AI transformation services, senior vice president Byun Woo-chul said Thursday. The telecom operator recently held Agent …
Thinking Machines Lab, the startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling on July 15, a 975-billion-parameter open-source multimodal AI model with a 1-million-token context window, available for free …
Global businesses are shifting from costly US AI models like OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude to cheaper Chinese open-weight models such as Zhipu's GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek's V4 Flash, driven by a narrowing performance ga…
The United States has tightened AI policies on China with new restrictions on chip exports and model weights rolled out in June 2026, according to the South China Morning Post, as Anthropic, the world's most valuable AI …
SpaceX unveiled its AI1 orbital data center satellite design, featuring a 70-meter wingspan and 150 kW compute payload, aiming to bypass terrestrial infrastructure constraints. The satellite, designed for sun-synchronous…
OpenAI, founded in 2015 as a nonprofit committed to open research and benefiting humanity, has transformed into a closed-source, for-profit company through its 2019 shift to a capped-profit model and partnerships with Mi…
Confluent named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year for transforming embedded investments with real-time data streaming. Upvest uses Confluent Cloud to power event…
Microsoft has trained its sales staff to promote its new in-house MAI models over OpenAI and Anthropic alternatives, unveiling seven models at Build 2026 including the 35-billion-parameter MAI-Thinking-1 with a 256K cont…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion total parameters under an Apache 2.0 license on July 15. The Mixture-of-Experts model processes text, audio, and video with 4…
A developer who spent two months building LDBD, a prediction platform where AI bots and humans compete, attracted zero users because he never told anyone about it. After asking AI assistant Claude to diagnose the problem…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-source AI model trained from scratch on 45 trillion tokens, as a generalist base for customization. The model launched on the company's Tinker fine-tun…