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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…
Meta is on track to become a major cloud provider after announcing a $50 billion expansion of its Hyperion datacenter in Louisiana from 2.2 to 5 gigawatts, following reports it is exploring offloading excess compute capa…
Sierra announced a partnership with SoftBank Corp., a Japan-based telecommunications and IT operator, to deliver its conversational AI platform to Japanese enterprises. SoftBank will serve as Sierra's exclusive sales par…
Adarsh Hiremath, Co-founder and CEO of Mercor, said on Zero-Shot Learning that many enterprise teams move agents to production without ensuring they are calibrated to specific use cases, leading to failures when contexts…
Singapore-based video-generation startup PixVerse has raised $439 million in a Series C extension, pushing its valuation past $2 billion. The company, founded in 2023 by Wang Changhu and Jaden Xie, plans to expand its wo…
Nous Research, the startup behind the open-source Hermes agent, is finalizing a new funding round led by Robot Ventures with participation from USV at a $1.5 billion valuation, raising at least $75 million, according to …
Reed Jobs has turned Yosemite from a 2023 oncology fund into a 17-person venture firm using AI, grantmaking and company formation to accelerate cancer science from university labs to clinical development, according to a …
New Mountain Capital founder Steven Klinsky says Wall Street's panic over AI disrupting software companies is overblown, arguing that enterprise software's complexity and integration requirements will slow AI's impact. T…
Thomson Reuters may cut up to 500 engineering jobs, about 1.8% of its 27,100-person workforce, as it shifts hiring toward senior and AI-focused technical roles. The company plans to create more than 250 new engineering p…
Anthropic released collaboration features for its Claude platform on July 2026, including public sharing of Claude Code artifacts, team-based collaborative editing, and Claude Tag integration that lets users summon the A…
Robbyant released six embodied-AI models over four days spanning perception, action, world modeling and video, positioning the LingBot stack as a platform for robotics developers. The public artifacts include LingBot-Vis…
Oracle's stock has fallen more than 25% year-to-date and roughly 55% from its September 2025 peak as investor scrutiny intensifies over the company's $56 billion capital expenditure on AI infrastructure in fiscal 2026, w…
A new hackathon platform, the One Shot Challenge, launches with free entry and sponsored prizes, requiring participants to build complete apps, games, or worlds from a single AI prompt using models like Fable 5, Opus 4.8…
SK Hynix suffered its biggest one-day share price fall on record, sliding more than 15% in Seoul and wiping billions from its market value, just one trading session after its Nasdaq debut. The decline, triggered by a Kor…
Anthropic and OpenAI are extending free access to their most powerful AI models in a price war for power users. Anthropic extended promotional access to its Claude Fable 5 model through July 19 with higher rate limits fo…
OpenClaw has become a nonprofit foundation, aiming to serve as a neutral steward for the AI agent platform, with creator Peter Steinberger continuing to lead technical decisions while employed by OpenAI. Critics, includi…
OpenAI faces a second messy breakup with a Big Tech partner as Apple sues the startup for allegedly poaching employees and stealing trade secrets, following OpenAI's earlier rift with Microsoft that ended their exclusive…
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C on July 1 at an $8.3 billion valuation, led by Aramco Ventures, with participation from Vista Equity Partners, General Catalyst, Nvidia and Pegatron. The company, which rents a…
Major US companies including DoorDash, Airbnb, and Siemens are adopting Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai, attracted by lower costs and open-weight flexibility, according to the Financial Times. OpenRouter data sh…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman have reignited their public feud, accusing each other of misleading investors as they vie for AI dominance, with SpaceX preparing for a $1.75 trillion IPO and OpenAI completing a $122 billion fun…