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OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a productivity layer powered by GPT-5.6 that automates multi-step tasks across apps like Slack, Google Drive, and Microsoft Teams, targeting over 5 million business users at roughly $25 per …
OpenAI launched a ChatGPT for small business program offering virtual training, in-person AI academies, guides, and access to new agents and partners, while also announcing that ChatGPT Work and Codex have reached 10 mil…
Open-weight AI models from Chinese labs are proving to be a terrible business, unlike open-source software, according to financial disclosures and analyst reports. Zhipu, the lab behind GLM 5.2, lost nearly $500 million …
Augustus, an AI-native federally chartered clearing bank for stablecoin-era payments, raised $180 million at a $1 billion valuation led by Tiger Global. The startup aims to replace legacy correspondent banking with alway…
SkyPilot emerged from stealth on July 21 with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital, backed by personal checks from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue, and o…
SkyPilot, a control plane that unifies fragmented AI compute into a single pool, emerged from stealth today. The open-source platform, which began as a PhD project at Berkeley, now manages over 10,000 GPUs across hundred…
HireQuotient announced an integration with Paylocity (Nasdaq: PCTY) that brings AI-powered candidate sourcing and screening to Paylocity customers in frontline industries such as manufacturing, building services, constru…
A consortium including the AI Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners closed the largest data-centre acquisition on record, buying Aligned Data Centers for about $40 billion, then …
London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised $152 million in a Series A round led by Prime Movers Lab, pushing its valuation above $1 billion and making it Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. Bosch's rob…
Microsoft and Mistral have deepened their partnership with a multibillion-dollar agreement focused on enterprise AI infrastructure, deliberately building an AI stack the company does not fully own. The deal aims to provi…
Corner, a social-mapping startup targeting Gen Z users, has raised new funding to bring its total to $7.5 million, nearly doubling its previous $3.75 million raised in 2025. The New York-based company, which has over 250…
American open-source AI labs, including startups Thinking Machines, Reflection AI, and Poolside, are attempting to challenge the dominance of Chinese open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, according to a Forbes repor…
Bloomy, an AI tutor and curriculum for K-12 students that has doubled ARR every two weeks since June, is hiring a founding engineer. The YC S26 startup's student users learn approximately 2x faster in early pilots, and t…
Simon Eskildsen, co-founder and CEO of turbopuffer, advocates for 'napkin math'—quick back-of-the-envelope calculations to identify performance and cost inefficiencies in software systems. Speaking at the AI Engineer's W…
China-based AI firm Moonshot is seeking a $50 billion valuation in a new fundraising round ahead of a potential Hong Kong initial public offering later this year, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company, founde…
Gumroad founder and CEO Sahil Lavingia shared data showing the company's human payroll fell to $43,000 in June 2026, matching its AI token spend of $43,000 for the first time. Human payroll dropped from $419,000 in June …
OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 with pricing at $1 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, achieving 750 tokens per second, marking the third major price drop from a frontier lab in 12 months. The announcemen…
Halliday announced its G2 AI smart glasses on Tuesday, pivoting from a general consumer audience to focus on working professionals with a new Meeting Flow feature for live captions, translations, transcripts, and summari…
Microsoft Corp. and French AI startup Mistral AI announced a multibillion-dollar partnership on Tuesday to scale European cloud infrastructure and integrate Mistral's models across Microsoft's products. The deal addresse…
London-based AI and robotics firm Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd.) raised $152 million in funding at a $1.35 billion post-money valuation, becoming Europe's first pure-play humanoid robotics unicorn. The round was led by Pri…