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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…
Microsoft is training its sales team to negatively compare AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic to its own, according to a Bloomberg report. At an internal meeting on Tuesday, executives outlined a strategy emp…
HeyBraza launches Tachyon, an on-screen AI that points to exact buttons and walks users through tasks in apps like Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and Unity via voice commands, aiming to replace traditional courses with live, h…
Anthropic, the San Francisco-based AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is negotiating to expand its credit lines ahead of a planned initial public offering (IPO) targeted for October 2026. The company, which secured $65 b…
A VentureBeat Pulse Research survey of 101 enterprises finds that Anthropic's Claude leads enterprise AI agent orchestration by a wide margin, but most deployments lack autonomy, tool usage, or multi-step reasoning, func…
EdVisorly, a Los Angeles enrollment software company founded by Air Force veteran Manny Smith, raised $13.3 million in a Series A round led by Breachway Capital to expand its AI systems for college admissions offices. Th…
IBM's preliminary Q2 2026 results, released July 14, showed revenue of $17.2 billion (up just 1% year-over-year) and adjusted earnings per share of $2.93, missing the consensus estimate of $3.01, triggering a 25% stock d…
Anthropic's Claude is the primary agent orchestration platform for 40% of 101 enterprises surveyed by VentureBeat, more than double any rival, but 71% of respondents say a quarter or fewer of their deployed 'agents' are …
Two AI chip startups, Groq and Cerebras, achieved massive financial outcomes in the past year—Groq was acquired for $20 billion and Cerebras IPO'd to a $40 billion-plus market cap—but their pre-LLM architectures have sho…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first open-weights foundation model, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41 billion active parameters, available for fine-tuning via Tinker and as downl…
ASML raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to between €43 billion and €45 billion, the second upward revision this year, as AI infrastructure spending drives demand for its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. …
A PDF titled 'Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble"' examines whether the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence investments constitutes a speculative bubble. The document analyzes market dynamics and investor behav…
AI investments have become a dominant force in global capital markets, with Anthropic's valuation priced at a high likelihood of hitting $1.25 trillion by December 31, according to MarketWatch. The sector has absorbed si…
PrismML, a Caltech-spinout AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Cerberus, Google, and Samsung, announced Bonsai 27B on July 14, the first 27.8-billion-parameter AI model that runs locally on mobile devices like the iPho…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI researchers will join…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that the company explicitly says is not the strongest available, positioning it as a platform for fine-tuning rather than a benchma…
Apple is hunting for AI chip acquisitions after its own M2 Ultra-based AI servers proved inadequate, forcing it to rely on Nvidia chips inside Google's cloud for the new Gemini-powered Siri. The company has talked to ban…
Inkling, an open-source AI model with 975 billion parameters developed by Thinking Machines, aims to disrupt the AI field by mastering video and audio understanding, challenging established players like OpenAI and Anthro…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model with 41 billion active parameters per task, trained on 45 trillio…
Bora Pharmaceuticals and Insilico Medicine announced a strategic alliance valued at more than $2.5 billion if fully implemented, combining Insilico's Pharma.AI platform for drug discovery with Bora's global manufacturing…