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Innocean, the marketing arm of Hyundai Motor Group, partnered with venture capital firm SBVA to launch UP 2026, a growth platform for about 10 AI and technology startups including Ohou, Blind, and Kream. The program aims…
ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, is negotiating to buy at least 50,000 AI inference GPUs from Shanghai-based Iluvatar CoreX, as US export controls push Chinese tech firms to diversify away from Nvidia. The company is …
Innocean, Hyundai Motor Group's marketing arm, partnered with venture capital firm SBVA to launch UP 2026, a corporate backing initiative for growth-stage tech startups. The program aims to diversify Innocean into AI, da…
UBS hosted its inaugural Asian Investment Conference Wealth Forum in Hong Kong and Singapore, drawing over 6,200 attendees to discuss AI, global connectivity, and investment strategies amid geopolitical and technological…
CEO Jay Fernström launched Birka AI, a defense procurement marketplace free for vendors, aiming to streamline the path from prototype to purchase order by connecting builders with operators and verifying products.
SpaceX raised $75 billion in its IPO on June 12, the largest in history, valuing the company near $2 trillion. The funds will support plans to deploy up to 1 million satellites for orbital AI data centers, leveraging its…
AI-driven demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) has triggered a supply bottleneck, with AI servers requiring up to 28,000 MLCCs per unit—a 13-fold increase from standard servers. The surge, described as 'scary…
Argentina's President Javier Milei proposed legislation allowing AI-run corporations without human directors or shareholders, aiming to attract tech investment with low taxes and minimal regulation. Critics like historia…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API launch, fueling inte…
Animoca Brands-backed chess platform Anichess is hosting a Hong Kong event on June 16 with world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, featuring a fireside chat on chess and AI strategy. The event, titled 'Checkmate the Future …
AI subscriptions priced at $20/month are heavily subsidized by venture capital and are not sustainable, with enterprise pricing already reaching $30-$100+ per user. As AI companies face IPO pressure and investor demands …
OpenRouter Fusion achieves 64.7% on key benchmarks versus Claude Fable 5's 65.3%, but at roughly half the cost per token, making it a more cost-effective option for high-volume workloads. The 0.6% performance gap is negl…
The US government shut down Anthropic's Fable AI, sparking calls for open-source alternatives. Satya Nadella argued that AI ecosystem moats must be based on human expertise, not models. Salesforce acquired Fin for $3.6 b…
OpenAI's IPO asks public investors to bet that the company can own the layer where AI does real work—harnesses, interfaces, and workflows—rather than just the underlying GPT models. The company restructured as a Public B…
A founding engineer at an AI agent startup recounts three pivots—Minecraft coplayer, general-purpose desktop agent Fairies, and Excel coworker Shortcut—and distills ten commandments for building product from zero to one,…
Anil Dash argues for a shift from Big AI to many small, responsible AI tools created by and for communities, citing widespread cultural pushback and ethical concerns about major AI platforms. He suggests that alternative…
Anthropic cannot sell its latest AI model due to new US export controls, but the company may bypass restrictions by packaging the model for enterprise clients and joint ventures rather than selling it directly. This stra…
Jeff Bezos, seven months into leading AI startup Prometheus, has raised $18.2 billion and achieved a $41 billion valuation. The company focuses on developing an 'artificial general engineer' for physical products, not ch…
Gaon Cable's U.S. unit LSCUS secured multiple AI data center power contracts in 2026, including a five-year busduct supply agreement potentially worth up to 4 trillion won ($2.7 billion) with an unnamed U.S. technology c…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, is negotiating with the US Commerce Department after an emergency export-control directive forced it to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally. The directi…