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Software is not dead, but it has become much harder to win, according to Scale Venture Partners co-founder Rory O'Driscoll, speaking at SaaStr AI. Hyperscalers are spending roughly $688 billion on AI capex in 2026 agains…
OpenAI is developing a screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, with moving parts to create a sense of aliveness, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has sued OpenA…
Morgan Stanley analysts led by Joseph Moore defended Broadcom's role in Google's TPU supply chain, projecting TPU shipments will reach 3.2 million units in 2026 and 5 million in 2027, with the partnership extended throug…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, an open-weight model designed for versatile and efficient processing across media while balancing cost and perf…
Saturn Cloud founder Sebastian Metti announced a partnership on July 15 with YC-backed Lilac, adding Lilac's idle GPU network as a capacity provider for Saturn's token factory platform. The deal lets Saturn Cloud custome…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine-tune and deploy. Th…
Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately, making it the second EU country to approve the startup after Estonia in May. The rollout starts in Helsinki with…
Mukund Jha, CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, said in a Business Insider Q&A that despite AI redefining software engineering, he still values traditional engineering degrees when hiring. The company has experienced ex…
Anthropic has confidentially filed its IPO prospectus with the SEC and may list as early as October, according to CNBC and Bloomberg. The AI company, valued at $965 billion after a $65 billion funding round in May, is se…
Murati's Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weights 975B parameter mixture-of-experts LLM with 41B active parameters, supporting text, image, and audio input with a 1M-token context window. The model is availabl…
Datadog, an AI observability platform, is nearing a buy point as institutional investors show increasing appetite for its technology. The company's stock is approaching a key price level, driven by demand for monitoring …
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives including Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight model, Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model trained on audio, video, and text. The comp…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first open-weight AI model, Inkling, on Wednesday. The 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, which uses about 41 bill…
AI startup Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion parameters, as a Western alternative to popular Chinese open-source models. The San Francisco-based startup, founded by former OpenA…
Two AI energy innovators received analyst upgrades after a major Wall Street firm admitted it was wrong about their prospects, sending shares higher. The upgrades reflect growing confidence in AI-driven energy solutions.
Cloudera and VAST Data have partnered to build a unified AI factory architecture that combines Cloudera's containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System, targeting GPU starvation in enterprise AI deploymen…
OpenAI has become one of the largest liabilities in recent economic history, with plans to burn over $852 billion by the end of 2030, according to the Where's Your Ed At newsletter. The AI bubble is driven by cult-like p…
Anthropic may launch an IPO as soon as October, aiming to outpace OpenAI in going public. The AI startup is actively scheduling meetings with investors to capitalize on current market appetite for AI stocks. If successfu…
ASML Holding reported €9.3 billion in Q2 2026 net sales, crushing analyst estimates of €8.8 billion, and raised its full-year guidance for the second time to €43-45 billion, driven by surging demand for AI chip productio…
Anthropic's hiring strategy is scrutinized as a potential bid for legitimacy, with each new hire possibly serving to bolster the company's credibility in the AI industry. The analysis suggests that Anthropic may be prior…