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YouTube is cracking down on AI-generated "slop" content, leading faceless creators to hire hosts or show their own faces to comply with new policies. Some creators have lost significant revenue, while others adapt by usi…
OpenAI projected $34 billion in spending on R&D, sales, and marketing in 2025 as it prepares for an IPO that could value it at $1 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The AI company reported $13 billion in revenue…
Berlin-based audit AI firm Cortea raised €12m (£10.3m) in a funding round led by Dawn Capital, with participation from former KPMG global head of audit Larry Bradley, to expand into the UK market. The company's AI-powere…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas shared two founder lessons from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the '20VC' podcast, emphasizing Huang's mentality of being 30 days from going out of business and Musk's …
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European countries and French pol…
OpenAI's losses surged to $38.5 billion in 2025, up from $5.09 billion in 2024, as spending hit $34 billion against $13.07 billion in revenue, according to audited financial documents. The massive losses were driven by $…
Apple's Mac mini with M4 chips is facing severe shortages due to high demand from AI developers and component constraints, with wait times of up to three months. The company is expected to refresh the lineup with M5 chip…
Corgi, a thematic ETF issuer, filed for a MANGOS ETF targeting AI leaders Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX, aiming to replace FAANG as Wall Street's favorite acronym. The fund would offer concentrated …
Barclays raised its price target on Amphenol Corporation from $180 to $198 on June 8, 2026, citing increased confidence in the company's AI content ramp. The revised target implies approximately 29% upside, reflecting Am…
Arcade raised $60 million in a Series A round led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, to secure AI agent access. The company provides an authorization platform for AI agents that integrates…
Wei Siyuan, a 19-year-old Chinese student and CEO of a drone and AI company, donated 100,000 yuan to sanitation workers at his former school. He founded the company with two friends while still in secondary school, earni…
NocoBase, a bootstrapped enterprise software company with 14 employees, reports that its revenue in the first five months of 2026 doubled year-over-year, with its best month alone matching its entire 2024 revenue. The co…
Microsoft is using Amazon Web Services to add computing capacity for GitHub after AI-driven demand caused dozens of outages in 2026. The move is notable because Microsoft and AWS are cloud rivals, but the surge in AI cod…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 scored 161 on the Epoch Capabilities Index, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Pro at 159, with dominant performances in math and software engineering benchmarks. The model achieved 88% on FrontierMat…
Paris venture studio Rocapine raised $13 million in Series A funding led by Educapital to build wellness apps designed to reduce screen time rather than increase it. The studio, founded by former Voodoo executive Stanisl…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Anysphere, maker of Cursor, for $60 billion in stock days after its blockbuster IPO, signaling that AI developer tools have become strategic infrastructure. The deal, which includes a $3…
Salesforce agreed to acquire Fin, formerly Intercom, for $3.6 billion in the largest deal ever for an Irish-founded tech firm. The AI customer-service agent company will bolster Salesforce's Agentforce platform, which re…
Salesforce acquired Fin for $3.6B on June 15, 2026, while NewCore raised $66M for AI-agent identity management and Cloudflare hired Ensemble AI's team, signaling a shift from building agents in-house to buying the entire…
A developer spent three months building echofm and huisheng.live, AI-powered radio stations that turn listener letters into songs, using coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. The builder created over 300 pull request…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding agent Cursor for $60 billion in stock, a deal first announced in April. Cursor added $1 billion in annualized revenue since the announcement, offsetting the acquisition cost for SpaceX …