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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…
A solo operator built a $6,000/month ad copywriting business in 90 days using Claude, turning a 10-hour task into a 2-hour workflow. The model layers active retainers with passive income from digital products and email f…
Salar al Khafaji, who sold his previous company Silk to Palantir in 2016, is now betting $32 million that his construction robotics startup Monumental can fix the industry's labor crisis. The Amsterdam-based company rais…
Indian AI coding startup Emergent raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump from its $300 million valuation in January. The round was led by Creaegis with participat…
Hemispheric, a startup co-founded by Apple FaceID co-inventor Gidi Littwin, has raised $52 million to build a frontier AI model that decodes brain electrical activity to diagnose cognitive disorders without invasive proc…
Startups must shift focus from Product-Market Fit to Story-Market Fit as AI makes content creation easier, according to a new analysis. Brands with strong Story-Market Fit report higher customer retention and engagement …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is launching a new fundraising round targeting a valuation of approximately 500 billion yuan ($74 billion), ahead of a potential IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market, according to sources. The Hangzh…
DeepSeek is in talks to raise $1.5 billion in fresh capital ahead of a potential IPO, according to Bloomberg, with a valuation of $71 billion.
OpenArt AI, an AI text-to-video platform, is launching ads in AMC movie theaters across Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York to promote its Director product, which lets users generate videos up to five minutes long f…
Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, revealed on the Syntax podcast that his team's AI token usage increased 5x after gaining early access to an unreleased AI model, and when access ended, team members mourned its loss. Raa…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion pre-money valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners in discussions to lead a ~$200 million round. The startup plans to use…
Meta Platforms announced on July 1, 2026, a new business unit called Meta Compute to sell surplus GPU and AI processing power to external clients, sending its stock up roughly 9%. The company plans $115 billion to $135 b…
IdeaPanda, a business idea engine created by Maya, surfaces ideas backed by real complaints from Reddit, app reviews, and forums, scoring each idea from 0 to 100 based on demand signals. The product offers lifetime acces…
AI chip infrastructure spending is projected to reach $1.6 trillion by 2030, according to a report cited by Crypto Briefing, signaling significant growth opportunities for Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, and Micron Technolo…
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin confirmed that approximately 60% of the company's largest contracts now involve AI-related workloads, as the data center operator invests heavily in AI infrastructure. In October 2024, Equin…
VAST Data and Cloudera announced a strategic partnership to integrate Cloudera's data engineering, analytics, and AI services with VAST's AI Operating System, creating a combined AI factory architecture that aims to elim…
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million from investors including Mark Zuckerberg and will.i.am and plans to open its first U.S. clinic in New York this year. The company…
Microsoft (MSFT) is deepening its enterprise AI moat with a $2.5 billion customer deployment initiative, according to the company. The initiative aims to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI by providing resources and su…
The Modern Robotics Registry, a new public index launched by TerraFirma, maps the global robotics ecosystem with profiles of 9,902 live roles from 467 job boards across 49 countries, tracking companies building physical …
IBM's mainframe business faltered as customers redirected budgets toward AI infrastructure, leading to a 7% drop in infrastructure revenue and a 25% plunge in IBM's share price. CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledged the shift,…