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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…
Micron Technology lost $110 billion in market value after its shares dropped 10%, extending a sector-wide selloff that also hit SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk, Western Digital, and Seagate. The decline, which era…
Some American startups are turning to cheaper Chinese AI models as a cost-saving alternative to expensive American AI systems, highlighting a growing price divide in the AI industry.
Livestream shopping app Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities. The deal aims to solv…
Alternative GPU cloud providers Together AI, Runpod, and Nebius are gaining market share as AWS faces GPU shortages, with Together AI offering H100 clusters at $6.79 per hour on-demand and reportedly seeking a $7.5 billi…
Apple's M2 Ultra chip delivers only 31.6 TOPS in machine learning performance, compared to Nvidia's RTX 4090 at 1,321 TOPS, a gap the company is addressing with a $30 billion Broadcom partnership and a $2 billion acquisi…
Arbital Health launched Arbital Flex on July 15, 2026, a self-serve actuarial AI software for payors and providers to analyze value-based care contracts, claiming it cuts time to insight from months to days. The product …
PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, enabling it to run on an iPhone while retaining 90 percent of the original model's performance in company benchmarks, with math and coding tasks barel…
Orderful CEO Erik Kiser says the company's AI-powered, self-service platform cuts electronic data interchange (EDI) onboarding from a year to weeks, with a goal of days or minutes. The platform, backed by a $35 million i…
Kilo Code, an agentic engineering platform that grew from zero to an open-source community of 3 million developers in 16 months, has been acquired by Anaconda. The acquisition aims to cover the full AI-native development…
Chai Discovery raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Index Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in seven months as the AI drug discovery startup's generative models are deployed at Eli Lilly, Pfizer,…
Emergent, an AI-powered coding platform founded in June 2025, has raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Creaegis with participation from Claypond Capital, Sentinel Global,…
Only 5% of AI prototypes make it to production, with 95% falling into the validation abyss, according to data from MLQ.ai. Google engineers at YouTube solved this by building a prototyping stack that decouples rapid expe…
Moki, an AI Slack bot, helps users evaluate ideas by scoring them against live Google search demand and six weighted factors, surfacing the binding constraint and the cheapest experiment to test the biggest unknown. The …
PrismML, a Caltech spinout, compressed Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B AI model from 54 gigabytes to 3.9 gigabytes using 1-bit and ternary quantization, enabling it to run natively on an iPhone 17 Pro at 11 tokens per second while…
OpenAI is planning a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a humanlike 'AI companion,' according to Bloomberg, but faces a lawsuit from Apple Inc. accusing it of poaching talent and stealing trade secrets that …
Anthropic is projected to reach a $1.25 trillion valuation by the end of 2026, according to prediction market pricing, amid a broader AI sector boom that has seen OpenAI's valuation quintuple since late 2024. The AI sect…
Anthropic launched Ode, a standalone AI enterprise services firm backed by approximately $1.5 billion in capital from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management, and Sequoia…
Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, launched compute forward curves on July 14, allowing traders to bet on future GPU rental prices for Nvidia's B200, H200, and A100 chips. The contracts enable AI companies to he…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, plans to conduct investor meetings for its initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, following a confidential S-1 filing with the SEC on June 1, 2026. The com…