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Anthropic announced Tuesday it is committing $10 million CAD to fund research into beneficial and responsible AI applications through partnerships with Canadian institutions including Amii, Mila, the Vector Institute, CH…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup valued at up to $59 billion, is planning to file for an initial public offering this year, according to sources. The company, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, shocked markets…
AI RPG, a free browser-based platform, launches an AI RPG game and AI story generator that creates a unique interactive novel in real time based on user choices, with NPCs that remember past actions and multiple endings.…
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup developing open-weight AI models, signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius, formerly the international arm of Yandex, to access Nvidia's latest chips. …
Oodle.ai has launched LLM Agent Observability, a service that stores all agent traces without sampling at $10 per million traces, using a custom columnar storage engine on S3 and AWS Lambda for sub-second query latency. …
Turbopuffer, a search engine built on object storage like AWS S3, claims to be 10x cheaper than traditional vector databases by pulling data into RAM only when needed, and has reportedly crossed $100M in ARR. Competitors…
IBM shares plunged more than 20% on Tuesday, wiping over $50bn from its market value in the biggest one-day selloff since the 1987 crash, after the tech giant warned customers were diverting spending from software to AI …
Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face this spring, surpassing U.S. models, and the top six most popular models on OpenRouter are all open models from Chinese firms including Tencent, X…
Higgsfield crossed a $500M annualized revenue run rate in June, up from $200M at the end of 2025, and is cash-flow positive, CEO Alex Mashrabov said. The AI video platform, which launched in March 2025, achieved this wit…
AI investment is increasingly concentrated in coding tools, where the most immediate value is being captured, raising questions about which sectors will be disrupted next.
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court, accusing three former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets related to hardware operations for OpenAI's benefit. The complaint alleges that f…
Anthropic launched rupee-denominated pricing for Claude AI subscriptions in India on July 13, 2026, covering all tiers from Pro at ₹2,000/month (annual) to 20x Max at ₹23,999/month, eliminating forex fees for Indian user…
Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million Series B round into Nous Research, an open-source AI agent startup, at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation. The deal comes less than three months after Nous closed a $50 million Se…
The AI sector is seeing growing valuation concerns for Anthropic as competitive pressures mount from major players like NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, despite Anthropic's strong enterprise revenue. Market odds for An…
A Newsweek opinion piece by a valuation professional warns that trillion-dollar AI company valuations are based on guesswork, with models designed for factories and inventory applied to intangible assets that now make up…
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and features the Amoo AI age…
DeepSeek is in preliminary talks to raise new funds at a roughly $71 billion valuation, a $19 billion increase from its $52 billion valuation set six weeks ago in May, according to the Financial Times. The Chinese AI lab…
OpenAI-backed Chai Discovery closed a $400 million funding round at a $3.8 billion valuation on July 14, tripling its price tag in seven months. The Index Ventures-led round positions the company as AI infrastructure for…
SpaceX and Amazon, founded by Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos respectively, now command a combined market value of roughly $4.5 trillion, but a new Fortune report by Amanda Gerut reveals that Amazon generated $716.9 billion in …
Flex raised $70 million in a Series B1 round led by Ryan Smith's Halo fund, bringing its total equity to $180 million, to expand its AI-native private bank for high-net-worth business owners globally. The company's Flex …