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About 82% of the 156,975 tech jobs eliminated globally in the first half of 2026 came from US companies, according to a new report from TradingPlatforms, a UK-based research firm. Almost half of the cuts were tied to US …
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, after pivoting from building AI models to enterprise data infrastructure. Lee calls the product "Boss AI" and describes 01.ai as…
Infinity, a San Francisco-based AI infrastructure startup, announced a $15 million seed round at a $100 million post-money valuation to scale its platform that automates the adaptation of inference software for any AI ch…
IREN raised its year-end 2026 AI Cloud revenue target from $3.7 billion to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new multi-year contracts with customers including Microsoft and Nvidia, with 85% of the target…
Neo emerged from stealth on Monday with $100 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners to build a real-time control layer for agentic AI software in enterprises. Founded by former Sentinel…
IG market analyst Tony Sycamore estimated that Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model erased a combined $314 billion from valuation estimates for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report on July 20. The figure, which i…
Beijing-based startup Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter model using mixture-of-experts architecture, claiming it outperforms Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and OpenAI's GPT-5.5 on coding and long-ho…
Tempus AI Inc. announced on Monday its intent to acquire Personalis Inc. for approximately $1.5 billion, a deal aimed at integrating Personalis' cancer testing capabilities into Tempus' AI-enabled precision medicine and …
Fluidstack, a London-founded AI infrastructure startup, is targeting an $18 billion valuation in a new $1 billion funding round, more than double its $7.5 billion valuation from December 2025, according to TechCrunch. Th…
Empirical Security has raised a $25 million Series A led by Brightmind Partners to tailor exploit predictions to each customer's environment, bringing its disclosed funding to $37 million. The Chicago-based company sells…
Y Combinator has published a playbook for building an AI-native company, outlining strategies for startups to leverage artificial intelligence as a core business component. The guide covers key areas such as product deve…
Alibaba Group Holding previewed its Qwen3.8-Max-Preview AI model with 2.4 trillion parameters, claiming it ranks second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, but the claim lacks external validation as no benchmark data or …
OpenAI is on pace to miss its own 2030 ad revenue projection of $100 billion by 90%, according to a new analysis from marketing consulting firm Emarketer. Emarketer estimates the entire addressable market for chatbot adv…
Your360 AI disclosed $1.4 million in SAFE financing from seven investors toward a $2 million target, according to a July 20, 2026 SEC Form D filing. The voice-based workplace coaching platform, founded by CEO Jared Goral…
Chinese AI firm Moonshot has paused new subscriptions for its Kimi K3 large-language model, trained on 2.8 trillion parameters, due to surging demand that pushed GPU capacity to its limits days after release. The Beijing…
Chinese AI company Moonshot's free, open-source model Kimi, which rivals the intelligence of paid models from OpenAI and Anthropic, has sparked a public feud among President Donald Trump's AI advisors, dividing them over…
Big Tech companies are offering their balance sheets as emergency financial backstops for unproven AI startups, enabling them to borrow cheaply but risking ignominy if the investments sour, according to the Financial Tim…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight AI model that sparked US tech stock declines, has paused new subscriptions due to overwhelming demand exceeding GPU capacity. The Chinese company said it is add…
Bitcoin miners Hut 8 and IREN have locked in multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure contracts, with Hut 8's stock surging nearly 30% after announcing a 15-year lease valued at $9.8 billion at its Beacon Point campus. IRE…
US frontier labs are wrong to dismiss Chinese open source models like Kimi K3, argues Larry Salibra, rebutting Ben Thompson's claim that American labs have lower unit costs and sticky user relationships. Salibra contends…