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Reinforcement learning pioneer and Turing Award winner Richard Sutton has founded a new AI research lab called Oak Lab with colleague Khurram Javed, leaving Keen Technologies to focus on real-time experiential learning t…
Envoy AI launched Ellie Workforce, an autonomous digital workforce platform for freight brokers that performs tasks such as carrier sourcing, rate negotiation, and compliance verification. The San Francisco-based company…
Intel's Arc Pro B70, priced at $949 for 32GB of GDDR6 but now selling above $1,100 due to market shortages, offers up to 85% higher token throughput and 6.2x faster time-to-first-token versus NVIDIA's RTX Pro 4000 on Int…
Chinese AI laboratory DeepSeek, which closed a $7 billion funding round weeks ago, is already seeking additional capital to maintain its aggressive pricing strategy and expand infrastructure for custom data centers and p…
Turing Award winner Richard Sutton and co-founder Khurram Javed left John Carmack's Keen Technologies to launch Oak Lab, a Canadian AI startup building continuously learning agents based on Sutton's OaK (Options and Know…
AI is creating more opportunities than it destroys by enabling the creation of more products and companies, according to a developer. As AI agents automate tasks, the demand for human judgment in oversight, security, and…
DeepSeek is planning a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab needs capital to bu…
Meta Platforms is launching an internal division called 'Meta Compute' to monetize surplus AI infrastructure by offering raw compute power and hosted AI models to external developers, a move that sent shares of Nebius Gr…
Madrona Ventures reports that 40 AI companies have collectively raised more than $300 billion, with the remaining 37 firms averaging $800 million each after excluding the top three. The Seattle-based venture capital firm…
Chai Discovery has raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $3.8 billion valuation, tripling its valuation in seven months. The OpenAI-backed drug discovery startup, founded in 2024, builds AI models for molecular de…
Anthropic is poised to prove an AI lab can be profitable, but if progress slows, low switching costs and distillation could force labs to compete on price rather than capability, turning intelligence into a cheap commodi…
Agnost AI (YC S26) launched a platform that extracts user feedback from agent conversations to detect production failures and generate fixes. The tool works with any LLM or framework, offers a 2-minute setup, and provide…
Switch, the Las Vegas-based data center operator, is preparing for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $80B, according to sources familiar with the matter. The company has tapped banks to beg…
Chinese AI pioneer DeepSeek has begun preparations for an initial public offering and may file as soon as this year, targeting a debut in 2027, according to people familiar with the matter. The Hangzhou-based startup is …
Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said Tuesday on CNBC that CFOs may face surprise operating expenses and earnings misses as businesses encourage employees to consume more AI, a practice known as tokenm…
Groq founder Jonathan Ross revealed that a $20 billion deal with NVIDIA was conceived just three weeks before closing, after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang converted a GPU purchase order into a platform partnership. Ross, who b…
Benchmark raised its price target on Hut 8 to $165 from $85, nearly doubling its previous estimate, after the Bitcoin miner secured $16.8 billion in contracted lease value across two hyperscale AI data center projects, w…
Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to a day-to-day operating role as CEO of 8090 Labs, the AI coding company he founded in January 2024, after raising a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. The company's prod…
Deepseek, the Chinese AI company valued at about $50 billion after a $7 billion funding round in June, is considering an initial public offering, according to Bloomberg. The company gained global attention in early 2025 …
Elon Musk's SpaceX projects a $28.5 trillion total addressable market for AI enterprise applications, nearly 70% of U.S. Q1 2026 nominal GDP of $32 trillion, but evidence suggests the AI bubble is deflating as subsidies …