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Chinese startup Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 AI model on Jul 17, delivering performance that rivals top-tier offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to the Beijing-based firm. The news sent AI and semiconducto…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, launched Thursday, has sparked widespread discussion on China's Weibo platform about Chinese AI competitiveness, the compute demands of efficient models, and comparisons with Anth…
Curative CEO Fred Turner said the health insurance company canceled its $600,000-a-year Salesforce contract after building a replacement CRM in two months using AI coding tools. Turner told the "20VC with Harry Stebbings…
A developer reports that a16z's Martin Casado stated there's an 80% chance any given startup is using Chinese models in production, not just experimenting. The post argues that China's open-weights strategy is winning by…
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, but analysts at EMARKETER project the entire chatbot ads market will make less than $1 billion this year, casting doubt on OpenAI's forec…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters and a context window of up to 1 million tokens, ranked third in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 57, behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 a…
Artificial intelligence innovations in Singapore's healthcare sector are attracting growing interest from private players and investors, but translating them into commercially viable applications remains difficult, accor…
Wire AI, a new product from an unnamed developer, offers an AI-native growth engine for mobile apps that personalizes the user journey from onboarding to feedback, claiming to improve activation rates. The system runs A/…
Samsung Electronics launched a CEO-led Robotics eXperience Business Office (RX) on July 21, consolidating robotics strategy, core technology, and commercialization under device chief TM Roh, and hired Hyundai Motor Group…
Marc Adams, a business exit specialist who survived stage four cancer after being given six months to live in 2020, now helps business owners use AI to keep more of their sale proceeds, having worked on over $2 billion o…
Apple has sued OpenAI for trade-secret theft, threatening to derail OpenAI's first hardware launch and its planned IPO, which is expected to value the company at over $150 billion. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, al…
Chinese AI start-up Moonshot AI has suspended new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model due to surging demand straining its computing power, the company announced on Sunday. The 2.8 trillion-parameter large language model,…
British semiconductor wafer manufacturer IQE has raised its full-year revenue growth forecast, citing stronger-than-expected first-half trading driven by demand for its compound semiconductor products in AI infrastructur…
Collage AI has appointed Carin Nuernberg as its new head of academic strategy and partnerships, the company announced Tuesday. Nuernberg will lead efforts to expand the AI startup's collaborations with universities and r…
IREN has signed $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud services contracts with Microsoft, Nvidia, Perplexity and Figure AI, pushing its year-end 2026 AI cloud revenue target from $3.7 billion to over $4 billion. The Syd…
Female-led Prodlane has raised €4 million in seed funding to develop an AI assistant for technical teams, aiming to capture and preserve the expertise of experienced manufacturing employees before they retire.
Darcy, a high school senior from SoCal, launched Calyxa, a Chrome extension AI tutor that teaches on the student's homework screen using an adaptive engine, aiming to solve the cheating problem by providing Socratic tuto…
DeepSeek cut prices 75% on its V4-Pro model, but enterprise AI vendors are discovering that cheaper models do not automatically translate into healthier margins because agent systems consume tokens at a rate that outpace…
Asian shares mostly gained on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi jumping 4.7% and Japan's Nikkei 225 adding 2.8%, recovering some losses from recent AI stock sell-offs. The Kospi surged as Samsung Electronics rose 7.4% an…
Anthropic dropped plans to charge extra for Claude Fable 5 on July 20, making the model free for Max and Team Premium subscribers within their usage limits, three days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.…