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Chinese AI models are gaining traction among U.S. companies as costs for American alternatives like OpenAI and Anthropic surge, according to a CNBC report. The trend highlights growing adoption of Chinese AI technology i…
UMA, a physical AI startup founded by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadène, unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot on Tuesday. The company is developing two systems: a dual-arm mobile industrial robot and a compac…
Tech CEOs and billionaires are descending on Sun Valley, Idaho, for the annual Allen & Co. conference, known as 'summer camp for billionaires,' with AI expected to dominate discussions. Leaders from Amazon, Apple, Meta, …
US companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models from firms like Deepseek and Z.ai due to their lower costs and comparable performance to leading US models. Chinese models now account for over 30% of AI tokens us…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's argument that open-source AI models complement rather than compete with closed systems is reshaping crypto capital flows, with $2.87 billion flowing into AI-related crypto tokens after US res…
Penguin Solutions reported Q3 fiscal 2026 net sales of $479 million, a 48% year-over-year increase, driven by surging AI infrastructure demand. The company beat earnings expectations with non-GAAP EPS of $0.84 and raised…
The World Nineball Tour has secured a major streaming deal with ESPN, bringing the US Open and Mosconi Cup to the broadcaster. CEO Emily Frazer says the partnership aims to elevate nineball pool as a professional sport, …
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI in paid business AI adoption, with 34.4% of businesses using its Claude product compared to OpenAI's 32.3%, according to Ramp's AI Index. The company's annual revenue run-rate has reached $…
OpenAI has taken an equity stake in Thrive Holdings, a permanent capital vehicle launched by Thrive Capital, to acquire and rewire accounting and IT firms with AI. The deal embeds OpenAI research teams inside portfolio c…
Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls on SpaceX, with an average price target of $236 per share, representing 47% growth from Monday's close. More than a dozen brokers including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman S…
Meta quietly launched Pocket, an AI app that generates playable mini-games from text prompts, on June 29 without any announcement. The app, built from the acquired startup Gizmo, targets kids but has no visible revenue m…
Anthropic expanded its Claude Cowork agentic AI platform to mobile devices, shifting its narrative to focus on eliminating busywork rather than replacing human workers, as the company prepares for an IPO.
Anthropic signed a $19 billion, 20-year lease with TeraWulf for 401 megawatts of data center capacity in Kentucky to address chronic Claude API outages, but relief won't come until H2 2027 at the earliest. The deal, whic…
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang argues that open-source AI models are not hurting frontier labs like Anthropic, as they serve different lifecycle phases—frontier models for discovery and open-source for production. Data from Ver…
Wall Street stängde på rött på tisdagen med Nasdaq som föll mest, tyngt av AI-relaterade bolag och halvledaraktier efter svaga kvartalsrapporter. Oljepriserna steg över 5 procent efter USA:s beslut att stoppa iransk olje…
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip, according to a Reuters report, as founder Liang Wenfeng pushes the Hangzhou AI lab into chip design to reduce dependence on Nvidia and Huawei hardware amid U.S. export re…
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference in July 2026 attracted AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, alongside media moguls discussing deals involving Comcast, Paramount, and Warner Bros.…
AI has made building software trivial, shifting the competitive advantage from engineering to distribution and customer selection. SaaS is not dead, but the old moat of hard-to-build code is gone, replaced by the need to…
Figma acquired the team behind Bud, an AI agent builder formerly known as Orchids, to strengthen its AI prototyping capabilities. The deal, reported by TechCrunch on July 7, 2026, will shut down Bud and Orchids by July 1…
Stockholm produces AI-era founders at a rate nearly matching Silicon Valley, driven by the city's unique compression of industries and institutional support for cross-disciplinary talent. The E-shaped professional—combin…