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Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, released in mid-2025, ranks near the top of intelligence benchmarks but suffers from severe performance issues, including throughput dropping from 30 to 13 tokens per second and t…
Legal AI startup Vikk AI raised $4.2 million in funding to expand its consumer AI platform and sell law firms sponsored placements inside AI-powered legal searches. The company's Lawyer Ad Center matches ads to user prac…
Cascade, an AI pursuit platform for architecture, engineering and construction firms, has raised $3.5 million from Andreessen Horowitz's Speedrun programme, Ada Ventures, Blitzscaling Ventures, Indico Capital, shuckerVC,…
Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership on July 21 with a multibillion-dollar Microsoft commitment to use part of Mistral's growing European GPU infrastructure, which will include thousands of Nvidia Vera Rubin …
Chinese AI firm Z.ai (Zhipu) shares surged 37% in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 after completing a 1-gigawatt data centre powered entirely by domestic chips, according to sources. The Beijing-based company al…
Wall Street futures pointed higher Tuesday, with the S&P 500 up 0.4%, the Dow up 0.3%, and the Nasdaq climbing 1.3%, as AI-focused companies recovered some losses. Chipmakers Marvell Technology and Intel rose 6.2% and 5.…
AI infrastructure company IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts, raising its year-end AI cloud annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion. The contracts inclu…
Gritt Robotics, a Belmont, California-based startup, has exited stealth with $34 million to automate solar farm construction using AI software that retrofits ordinary construction equipment. The company's systems are alr…
Alphabet plans to spend between $175 billion and $185 billion on capital expenditures in 2026, more than double last year, with the vast majority directed toward AI compute capacity, data centers, and Google Cloud infras…
VitaDAO, the decentralized longevity research DAO, has launched VitaApp, a health data tool that tracks biological age using AI-driven analysis. The app collects user health data to estimate biological age, building on t…
Humanoid, a European humanoid robot company, raised $152 million in a Series A funding round at a $1.35 billion valuation, making it the continent's newest unicorn in the robotics sector.
Tailscale is approaching 40,000 paid business customers, driven by AI tailwinds as the secure networking startup hires new VP Mike Shaver to guide its next phase amid a boom in AI agent recommendations.
Sarah Guo, who became Greylock's youngest general partner at 28 and left four years later to found Conviction, staked her firm entirely on AI before ChatGPT launched, with pre-ChatGPT seed checks into Baseten and Harvey …
Micron Technology reported fiscal third-quarter revenue of $41.5 billion, nearly quadrupling from $9.3 billion a year earlier, driven by record demand for high-bandwidth memory chips used in AI data centers. Shares surge…
The Pentagon is using AI from a $1.2 billion startup, Twenty, to automate cyberwarfare, with Khosla Ventures investing $30 million in the company. Twenty leverages AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI to run hacking campa…
Gumroad, a $100m/yr business, now runs with three part-time maintainers and its founder working one hour a week, with the rest handled by AI agent Hermes, which costs $43K/mo in token spend and surpasses human payroll. T…
US stock futures climbed on Monday as Asian equity markets staged a sharp recovery led by semiconductor stocks, with South Korea's Kospi surging 3.6% and Japan's Nikkei 225 rallying 3.3%. Samsung Electronics gained 6.2%,…
The next $1 trillion company will be a software company masquerading as a services firm, according to an analysis of the AI industry. The key insight is that selling the work (autopilot) rather than the tool (copilot) ca…
Thinking Machines, a new AI startup, has released its debut AI model, which the company says draws on techniques from Chinese rivals. The model aims to compete with offerings from major US and Chinese AI firms.
Tesla is expected to report a negative free cash flow of $3.3 billion for the second quarter of 2026, its first quarterly cash burn in over two years, as surging capital expenditures on AI infrastructure and robotics out…