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Rime, a San Francisco startup building text-to-speech models for live phone calls, raised $24 million in Series A funding led by M13, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, and Unusual Ventures. The co…
Anthropic, in collaboration with Blackstone, launched Ode, a new initiative to embed engineers within enterprises and accelerate AI adoption. The move signals a strategic shift toward AI implementation, with prediction m…
Global private equity deployment in technology collapsed from roughly 30% of total value last year to just over 10% in the first quarter of 2026, according to EY, as investors concluded they could not underwrite the spee…
Anthropic and Blackstone have launched Ode, a $1.5-billion AI implementation joint venture that acquires Fractional AI to help enterprises deploy AI, betting that the next trillion-dollar business lies in implementation …
ASML posted Q2 revenue of €9.33 billion, beating the €8.80 billion consensus, and raised its full-year 2026 guidance to €43-45 billion — up 16% at the midpoint — on 'extremely strong' AI chip demand from TSMC, Samsung, a…
DeepSeek's annualized revenue has hit $400 million to $500 million, the first concrete revenue disclosure from the Hangzhou-based AI lab, per The Information on July 14. The lab is also in the midst of a fundraising roun…
A founder's hands-on test of six AI video generators found that no single tool wins for all marketing use cases, with OpenAI's Sora delivering the most cinematic output but lacking brand consistency, Google's Veo 3 gener…
Dutch construction robotics startup Monumental has raised a $32m Series B led by Khosla Ventures to deploy more of its bricklaying robots on building sites in Britain and, for the first time, in the United States. The Am…
New Ideas Industrial Co., Limited, a Shenzhen-based semiconductor distributor founded in 2012, offers full-chain supply chain services for AI computing, high-end storage, industrial UAVs, and new-energy storage, providin…
Voice AI startup Rime has raised $24 million in a Series A funding round led by M13 Ventures, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, Unusual Ventures, and others, to help enterprises handle customer ca…
Reelful, an iOS app founded by former Snapchat machine learning engineer Kate Deyneka, uses AI to automatically transform users' camera roll photos and video clips into polished short-form videos for TikTok and Instagram…
Gwen Shapira, founder of a Postgres company, argued that Apple's lag in AI stems from its historical weakness in data infrastructure, contrasting it with Google's decades of expertise in large-scale data processing. Spea…
Keel Infrastructure, the company formerly known as Bitfarms, secured approval from the City of Sherbrooke on July 13, 2026, to consolidate three former Bitcoin mining sites into a single 96 MW AI and high-performance com…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signaled the company is prepared to cut prices for its flagship AI models by up to 75%, as competition intensifies with US rival Anthropic and cheaper Chinese alternatives. In a social media post, A…
Morgan Stanley reported record net income of $5.58 billion, or $3.46 per share, and record revenue of $21.35 billion in the second quarter, driven by an AI-fueled surge in trading and dealmaking. The bank's stock trading…
Emergent, the AI-powered software development platform founded by twin brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha, has closed a $130 million Series C funding round, pushing its valuation past $1 billion. The company now has $120 mil…
Cloudera and Vast Data have partnered to offer a unified AI factory solution that combines Cloudera's containerized data services with Vast's AI Operating System to eliminate GPU starvation and improve compute efficiency…
AI startup Hemispheric, led by Gidi Littwin, aims to transform brain diagnostics by making brain scans as accessible and affordable as routine blood tests, potentially revolutionizing the diagnosis of conditions like dep…
WEKA has appointed Shanta Kohli as its new Chief Marketing Officer, replacing Lauren Vaccarello, as the AI storage supplier shifts its messaging focus to enterprise inferencing at scale and agentic AI. Kohli, who previou…
The AI frontier has expanded from a two-horse race between Anthropic and OpenAI to a five-player contest in the US alone, with SpaceX's Grok 4.5, Meta's Muse Spark 1.1, and Alphabet's upcoming model joining the fray, acc…