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OpenAI's first hardware device will be a screenless smart speaker with motorized moving parts and a camera, acting as an AI companion, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, designed by former Apple designer Jony I…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of LLMs, coding agents…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a screenless, movable smart speaker designed as a humanlike AI companion that integrates with ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The device, still under d…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published a working paper analyzing the financing of the artificial intelligence boom, examining the shift from cash flows to debt markets. The paper finds that AI-related…
TYLsemi, a San Jose startup, raised $43 million to let companies design custom AI chips using pre-built chiplets, cutting development costs and time to market by nearly half. The oversubscribed round was led by Matter Ve…
TYLSemi, a San Jose-based semiconductor startup, raised $43 million in an oversubscribed early-stage round on July 14 to develop a modular chiplet platform for custom AI chips, aiming to cut development time and cost by …
Apple Inc. is in early talks with PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup spun out of Caltech, to use its compression technology that shrinks AI models from 54 GB to under 4 GB, enabling all 27 billion parameters of Al…
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year, according to a Bloomberg report. The screenless device will use a camera and sensors to understand its environment, feature a rechargeable battery, and offer smart h…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A round on July 8, pushing its valuation to $1 billion, to sell enterprises the compute and tooling to build and own their own AI models instead of renting them via APIs fr…
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned during the company's Nasdaq debut on July 10 that 2027 will be the worst memory supply year in history, with demand outpacing production past 2030, as the company controls 62% of the wor…
OpenAI plans to enter the consumer hardware market with a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a physical extension of ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, developed with former Apple design c…
Chinese large language model developer DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering later this year or in 2027, according to Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley.
Startup Lyzr.ai used an AI agent to help raise $100 million in its latest funding round, CEO Siva Surendira told Market Domination, explaining how agentic AI aids workflow automation while also noting where artificial in…
Google's AI Overview, a Gemini-generated answer block placed above traditional search results, now appears on close to one in five searches, according to Ahrefs' analysis of roughly 100,000 keywords. The feature, rolled …
Wall Street's biggest banks reported collective profits of $49 billion in Q2, up 39% year over year, driven by an AI boom that fueled record equity trading and underwriting fees. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the …
Ollama, a 14-person open-source AI infrastructure company, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The tool, which lets developers run AI models locally o…
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Apple has held exploratory discussions with Caltech-born startup PrismML about integrating its AI model compression technology into iPhones, according to a report from The Information. PrismML claims it can shrink a 54 G…
George Sivulka, CEO of AI platform Hebbia, argued that well-managed AI agents can cost $4 to $7,000 per hour, compared to roughly $80 per hour for human engineers, making token management the new competitive moat. Sivulk…
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital, and Pace Capital for his new AI dating service, Overtone, which uses voice and audio to provide highly curated introductions rather than…