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Chinese AI companies Moonshot AI and Alibaba unveiled models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 last week that they say compete with OpenAI and Anthropic's best systems, triggering market wobbles and declarations of a US AI Sputnik mom…
SkyPilot, a startup cofounded by Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica and Zongheng Yang, publicly launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with Coatue and Amplify Partners also participating. SkyPil…
Kuaishou Technology filed a notice on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 2, revealing that its AI video generation unit Kling secured approximately $2.8 billion in investor commitments, expandable to $3 billion, with a…
Gas prices have risen above $4 per gallon, with potential for further increases due to developments in the war with Iran, according to Matt Smith, Director of Commodity Research at Kpler. Meanwhile, Charlie O’Neill, Co-H…
Axiom Biosciences, a US biotech firm using AI to develop therapies for newborns with severe brain injuries, plans to raise at least US$200 million through an IPO in Hong Kong in 2027, followed by a secondary US listing i…
Gaming startup Studio Atelico is developing its debut game Bobium Brawlers using its on-device Atelico AI Engine, which runs locally rather than on cloud servers and is trained on the studio's own artists' work to addres…
IREN Limited reported that demand for its GPU cloud services now exceeds supply, with contracts pricing above $15 million per megawatt. The company, formerly known as Iris Energy, has secured a multi-year deal with Micro…
Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya said on X that tricking the US government to protect frontier AI labs' business models by using a China threat is a mistake, arguing it protects equity for fewer than 5,000 inves…
Mpathic, a startup building red-teaming AI models and chatbots for safety risks, secured its first customer in the life sciences space through a deal orchestrated by CEO and founder Grin Lord, who leveraged her previous …
Natural, a payments startup building infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in funding just 193 days after its launch, CEO Kahlil Lalji announced. The company positions itself as a rival to Stripe, targetin…
A consortium including BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, MGX, and the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership is acquiring Aligned Data Centers for approximately $40 billion, the largest transaction …
Chinese companies are expanding their AI talent pipeline to high school students, driven by a severe shortage of elite engineers and growing competition. Tencent launched camps for students aged 13 to 18 in June 2025, By…
Gritt exited stealth Tuesday with $34 million in total funding, including a $26 million Series A round led by Obvious Ventures, to deploy AI-controlled robots that install solar panels. The startup's systems, using off-t…
Lightfield co-founder and CEO Keith Peiris introduces the Agentic CRM, a customer relationship management system designed for AI-native companies, in an interview with Open Source CEO. The platform aims to help AI-first …
Natural raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures to give AI agents their own bank accounts, bringing total funding to over $40 million. The 193-day-old company offers six live products including …
Nebius stock surged after Nvidia disclosed a 9.3% stake in the neocloud company, following a $2 billion investment announced in March.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with improved benchmark scores and Dynamic Workflows for multi-agent tasks, while Microsoft unveiled the always-on Scout assistant and new MAI models including MAI Thinking 1. Anthropic…
Chinese company Moonshot AI's release of its Kimi K3 open-weight model is driving enterprise AI adoption away from U.S. rivals, potentially becoming one of the biggest AI moments of 2026 amid geopolitical tensions and a …
MoonMath AI launched Zro, a private inference endpoint for coding agents that serves open-weight models from EU infrastructure with zero request retention and no training on customer data. The service, starting at $20/mo…
Anthropic has opened applications for a grant program under its AI for Science initiative, offering up to $50,000 in Claude API credits to researchers working on rare genetic diseases. The program, announced July 20, 202…