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Cascade, an AI platform co-founded by Hannia Zia and Joana Ferreira, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz Speedrun, Ada Ventures, and others to help architecture, engineering, and construction firms identify …
Libretto, a two-person San Francisco startup founded by Michael Kronovet and Tanishq Kancharla, released Browser Tools SDK, a package of six Playwright-based tools designed to reduce token usage and runtime overhead for …
Korean AI startup VIDRAFT has released Aether-7B-5Attn, a 6.59B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts foundation model on Hugging Face under Apache-2.0. The model features five heterogeneous attention mechanisms arranged via a 7×…
Accounting firm CLA and ledger software company Digits will co-build a proprietary AI model trained on CLA's accounting judgment, starting within CLA's Client Accounting and Advisory Services practice and expanding to th…
Elon Musk's brain chip startup Neuralink is being valued as high as $42 billion in secondary market transactions, a nearly fivefold increase from its $9 billion valuation in its last funding round last year, according to…
A Wall Street Journal analysis reports that the AI backlash is beginning to have financial consequences for major technology companies, citing slowing revenue growth and increased regulatory scrutiny as investors grow sk…
Neill Blomkamp's new 13-minute sci-fi short 'Nightborne,' produced by his AI startup Barley Studios using ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator, is a poor proof of concept that lacks creative voice and exhibit…
Arkadi Kuhlmann, the banking entrepreneur who founded ING Direct Canada and ING Direct USA, is returning with Captal, a Menlo Park platform seeking $1 million in a seed equity offering to tokenize private-company shares …
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight 118-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts coding model that scored 70.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 59.4% on SWE-Bench Pro, beating larger rivals like DeepSee…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI Pte Ltd. last Friday released its Kimi K3 model, which it said is the world's largest open-weight model and outperforms U.S. AI offerings on certain benchmarks, signaling that cheaper and more…
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has grown its x86 server processor revenue share from 8% five years ago to 46% today, driven by a deliberate strategy to transition from chip designer to rack-level system optimizer. AMD's foc…
Temporal Technologies Inc. has made its open-source durable execution platform available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace to help enterprises manage the complexity of AI agent workflows. The platform handles error hand…
U.K.-based AI and robotics startup Humanoid raised $152 million in Series-A funding on Tuesday, led by U.S.-based Prime Movers Lab, boosting its valuation to $1.35 billion and making it the U.K.'s first robotics unicorn.…
Zongheng Yang and Ion Stoica launched SkyPilot on Tuesday with a $20 million seed led by Lux Capital, turning a UC Berkeley open-source project into a commercial control plane for AI teams running GPUs across multiple cl…
Forbes contributor Jason Kirsch identifies five semiconductor stocks to buy amid the AI boom and one to ignore to protect capital. The article highlights the reshaping of tech portfolios driven by AI demand for chips.
Nvidia disclosed a $4B+ passive stake in neo-cloud startup Nebius, sending its stock up 18.8%, as the Nasdaq led a strong market session with a 1.9% gain driven by a semiconductor rally. Oracle faces pressure after repor…
Tempus AI shares fell 7.74% to $48.41 on July 20, 2026, after the company agreed to acquire Personalis for about $1.5 billion, or $16.25 per share, with Personalis shares dropping 13.32% to $13.34. The stock-for-stock de…
Fluidstack Ltd., an AI data center builder partnering with Anthropic PBC, raised $830 million in Series A funding at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Situational Awareness, an AI-focused fund backed by Stripe Inc.'s foun…
Netflix paid $587 million in cash to acquire InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup co-founded by Ben Affleck, according to the streamer's Q2 2026 Form 10-Q filed July 17. The 16-person team was absorbed, and Affleck j…
AMD launched Helios, its first rack-scale AI system with 72 MI455X GPUs and 31TB of HBM4 memory delivering 2.9 exaflops of FP4 compute, and announced Microsoft as a customer for Azure deployment starting H2 2026. The sys…