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OpenAI's ad business is on pace to miss its own five-year revenue forecast by 90%, according to Emarketer. The AI lab projected $2.5 billion in ad revenue this year and $100 billion by 2030, but Emarketer estimates stand…
A growing number of accomplished founders and executives, including Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield, Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, former OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy, and Workday CTO Peter Bailis, are choo…
Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami said the tech industry gives AI 'too much credit' and that it is not smart enough to replace white-collar jobs, despite his company's $200 million investment in the vibe-coding platform Base44. A…
Korean companies are moving beyond AI pilot projects and embedding the technology into core operations, Google Korea and Google Cloud Korea executives said Tuesday at the Google AI for Business 2026 event in Seoul. Samsu…
Q2 2026 marked an inflection point for AI media as OpenAI launched advertising in ChatGPT across eight countries and built a supporting ecosystem of buying tools, measurement, agency partnerships and commerce infrastruct…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng became the world's wealthiest AI model creator after the company closed its first external funding round, raising over $7.4 billion and pushing its valuation past $50 billion. Liang persona…
LimX Dynamics, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robotics firm, plans to go public after raising nearly $200 million in a pre-IPO round completed on July 14, 2026, valuing the company at approximately $2.21 billion. Co-founder W…
Hostie, an AI-powered virtual concierge for restaurants, raised $12 million in a Series A round led by Obvious Ventures, with participation from operators including Bacchus Management Group and Atomic Workshop. The compa…
HCL Technologies announced a ₹3,500 crore ($36.5 million) investment in AI datacenters capable of scaling up to 50MW, aiming to offer full-stack AI infrastructure. CEO C. Vijayakumar said, "The biggest opportunity isn't …
Two Chinese AI startups, Yoolee AI and InfiX.ai, are pivoting away from the costly frontier model race to directly challenge Thinking Machines Lab, the US firm founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, by focusing …
Columbia Threadneedle Investments estimates cumulative global investment in AI data centers will reach approximately $5.8 trillion between 2025 and 2030, with tech hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Orac…
Alphabet reported a significant profit surge in Q1 earnings, contrasting with Microsoft's stock pressure amid investor concerns over AI profitability timelines, as the tech giant intensifies AI investment to maintain com…
Tom Blomfield, co-founder of GoCardless and Monzo, announced Monday he is taking a leave of absence from Y Combinator to join Anthropic's compute team as a member of technical staff, joining a wave of already-successful …
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has extended its Series C round to $439 million, pushing its valuation past $2 billion, up from roughly $1 billion in March, according to Bloomberg and KrASIA. The company now ha…
A federal judge dismissed xAI's trade secret misappropriation lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice on June 15, marking Elon Musk's second courtroom loss against his former company. OpenAI is now seeking to recover more …
Two Chinese AI labs, Yoolee and InfiX.ai, said they aim to challenge US start-up Thinking Machines Lab by focusing on industry-specific AI solutions, reduced costs and enhanced privacy. Yoolee AI, founded by former Zhipu…
OpenAI's Codex has reached 6 million active users, surpassing Anthropic's Claude Code at 2 million, with roughly 5 million weekly active users as of early June 2026, a sixfold increase since the desktop version launched …
GitHub Codex usage surged more than 10x in six months to 7 million users, adding 1 million in the past day, according to a tweet from Tibo on July 13, 2026. The milestone follows a prior disclosure of 6 million users in …
Meta is investing $50 billion to expand its Hyperion datacenter in Louisiana, signaling a potential pivot from AI model development to cloud computing by leasing spare compute capacity to AI labs. The move comes as Meta …
Anthropic extended access to its Claude Fable 5 model for subscribers through July 19, the second such extension in a week, after OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 with its flagship Sol model, which OpenAI claims outperforms Fable…