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Dimension Capital, a US specialist venture firm, has raised an $800mn fund to back AI-designed medicines, signaling continued investor confidence in AI drug discovery despite no AI-discovered drugs having received regula…
ASML Holding became the first European company to reach a $700 billion market valuation this month, driven by surging demand for its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines that are essential for manufacturing advanced …
Moonshot, a Chinese AI startup, debuted its Kimi K3 model with 2.8 trillion parameters at the World AI Conference, drawing crowds and comparisons to DeepSeek. Founder Yang Zhilin, a Carnegie Mellon alumnus and former Met…
Custom AI models tailored for individual logistics companies can slash execution costs by 70-80%, according to Sushanth Raman, CEO of Pallet. Raman argues that sovereign AI enhances data privacy and delivers tangible ROI…
Skyfall AI, co-founded by former Microsoft AI leaders Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman, plans to acquire a small B2B SaaS or e-commerce business for up to $1 million and hand its operations to an AI system designed to ac…
Microagi, a robotics startup founded by former Formula 1 engineers, raised a $55 million seed round led by Hummingbird Ventures to expand Atlas, its system for collecting factory-floor data, training robot control polici…
Jijia Vision, also known as GigaAI, is seeking a Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026, founder and CEO Huang Guan said, making it the first world model startup to go public globally. The Beijing-based company is closing a new f…
IREN said on July 20 that $2.8 billion in new multi-year AI cloud contracts lifted its year-end 2026 annualized run-rate revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion, with about 85% of the target now under co…
AMD launched Helios, a rack-scale AI system designed to rival Nvidia's Vera Rubin, with Microsoft signing on as a partner to deploy it on Azure. AMD claims Helios will match or exceed Nvidia's second-gen system in perfor…
The Mendral team is joining Anthropic to continue automating engineering tasks as part of the Claude Platform. Mendral, co-founded by former Docker engineers Solomon Hykes and Sam Alba, built an AI agent that diagnoses C…
BlackRock is leading a debt sale of more than $12 billion to fund a Meta data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with the bonds issued by a company holding an 80% stake in the project while Meta owns the remaining 20%, acc…
CuspAI Ltd., a U.K.-based startup using AI to discover new materials, has raised $450 million in a Series B funding round that values the company at $2.6 billion. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA with a signi…
Natural, a startup building payment infrastructure for AI agents, has raised $30 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner, bringing its total funding to $40 million. The company aims to compete with Stripe by enabli…
CIOs at the CIO 100 Leadership Live New York event on July 16 pushed past AI pilots toward measurable returns, emphasizing that infrastructure fragmentation and siloed decision-making are blocking value. Speakers includi…
China's release of competitive open-source AI models like Moonshot's Kimi K3, DeepSeek, Qwen, and GLM signals that the U.S. is losing its AI edge, according to Alberto Romero of The Algorithmic Bridge. The post outlines …
Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot research and training facility in Fremont, California, where it plans to house nearly 200 employees and teach its Digit humanoid new skills. Cofounder and chief robot officer …
UBS's trading desk says the selloff in momentum stocks is nearing an end, creating an opportunity to buy artificial intelligence and semiconductor shares. Hedge funds have unwound long positions in momentum and semicondu…
Prince Canuma, the maintainer of mlx-vlm, released Nativ, an MIT-licensed macOS app for local AI inference, on the day of its v0.0.1 launch. The app bundles an mlx-vlm server, pulls models from Hugging Face, and offers O…
Moonshot AI has temporarily paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 model after demand surged beyond capacity within days of launch, prioritizing existing subscribers while adding capacity. The open-source Chinese AI mo…
Cognition acquired TierZero, an AI production operations startup founded by Anhang Zhu and Yun Park, to integrate TierZero's incident response and infrastructure automations into its Devin software engineering agent. The…