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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…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch an AI drug discovery startup in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed in discussions to lead the round, though Wang disputed the fi…
Frhog, a proactive growth-tool for solo founders, analyzes a user's website and industry to deliver three actionable growth tactics every Monday, free with no signup required. The tool adapts to business changes, tracks …
OpenAI is entering the consumer hardware market with its first device, an AI-powered smart speaker, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor. The product marks the company's push into hardware amid the broader AI race.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 975 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, but the lab admits it is …
Dan Ives left Wedbush Securities on July 1 and launched Yorkville Ives & Co. on July 15, a merchant bank focused on AI dealmaking that combines equity research, strategic advisory, capital raising, and institutional trad…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model that activates only 41 billion parameters per task and natively handles text, image, audio, and video wit…
Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with $300 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation to build general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve. The startup, spun out of Toyota Research Institute in Jan…
Fountain 0, a film studio, announced Tuesday that it is releasing an AI-generated movie titled "Odysseus: The Fall," directed by Ash Koosha, to capitalize on the buzz around Christopher Nolan's upcoming "The Odyssey" ada…
Logistics companies that built AI solutions for 'corner cases' rather than understanding business fundamentals saw their valuations drop from 'tens of millions' to zero after major AI model releases, according to Freight…
Eric Rempel, Chief Innovation Officer at Redwood, discusses whether AI is a bubble or truly transforming the supply chain, sharing insights on adoption, job impact, and real value in logistics.
Dan Ives, a well-known tech analyst, and Yorkville Advisors, a securities group with ties to the Trump family, have launched an AI-focused bank called Ives Yorkville AI Bank. The venture aims to provide financial service…
Emergent CEO Mukund Jha said during a Business Insider Q&A that AI will make developers more valuable, not replace them, as demand for software and automation rises. Jha said he looks for candidates who are curious probl…
Anthropic, an AI research company, is reportedly planning an initial public offering as early as October, with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan involved, potentially listing before competitors OpenAI and DeepS…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model, reported in May 2026, exposes a deeper problem for AI founders: agentic products consume tokens far faster than model prices drop, according to a VentureBeat analysis publish…
Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open weights model, now available on Design Arena. Inkling ranks #9 on Design Arena's agentic Web Apps leaderboard, making it the highest-ranking US-based open weights model …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with open weights, native multimodal inputs, and a 1M-token context window. The model ha…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has unveiled Inkling, its first open-weights model, after 18 months of stealth development. The model is designed for customization and targets developer a…
TYL Semi has raised $43 million in seed funding to launch a fabless chiplet business model that de-risks AI infrastructure builders' large chiplet-based designs by handling surrounding chiplets, packaging, and test. The …
Mira Murati's AI start-up Thinking Machines has released its debut AI model, drawing inspiration from Chinese rivals, after raising $2bn last year at a $12bn valuation.