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Moonshot AI has paused new signups for its Kimi K3 chatbot just four days after its July 16 launch, citing overwhelming demand that strained GPU infrastructure. The Beijing-based startup said existing subscribers will ge…
NetApp acquired AI data infrastructure startup DataPelago, which will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary. DataPelago's Nucleus engine processes data at the storage layer, reducing infrastructure costs by up to 80% and …
Singapore stocks fell on Monday, with the Straits Times Index (STI) down 0.2% to 5,498.95, amid a tech rout in Asian markets triggered by the launch of Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi 3.0 model, which is comparable to…
Chinese startup LegendSpace, which uses artificial intelligence to shorten rocket engine development cycles, has raised $29.5 million in angel funding, the company announced. The six-month-old firm, formally named Linjie…
Alibaba previewed Qwen3.8, a 2.4-trillion-parameter multimodal AI model, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Fable 5, but provided no benchmark scores, m…
Alibaba Cloud launched Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion-parameter large language model, on July 19, claiming it is second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in performance. The launch intensifies China's AI race, coming days…
OpenAI faces a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of intellectual property and poaching of over 400 employees, an Oracle debt downgrade citing OpenAI as a key credit risk, and a price war with Chinese AI firms like DeepSe…
China revised stock market listing rules three weeks before AI startup DeepSeek filed for a mainland IPO, raising questions about regulatory timing. DeepSeek, a Hangzhou-based artificial intelligence developer, sought to…
Moonshot AI paused new sign-ups for its Kimi K3 model after demand pushed its GPU cluster to capacity. The Chinese lab said on X that demand over 48 hours "pushed close to the limits of our current capacity," adding "Our…
In early July 2026, Chinese AI chip companies Biren Technology and Iluvatar CoreX returned to capital markets, raising $900 million and $902 million respectively through share placements, while AI model company Zhipu pri…
AI startups are shifting focus from flashy demos to revenue-generating products as investor pressure mounts, with founders abandoning projects like neural-signal headphones and viral presentation builders to chase surviv…
Vancouver-based personal training app Flex AI is shutting down after failing to secure an acquisition and exhausting its funding, co-founder and CEO Amin Niri told employees in a March 24 email. The AI-powered fitness te…
Jai, a solo founder at QX Labs, argues that traditional RAG fails on portfolio and counting questions critical for business use, while full GraphRAG is overkill. QX shipped a pragmatic middle path that combines knowledge…
Singapore companies are moving beyond the artificial intelligence experimentation phase and becoming increasingly selective about how they deploy the technology, as rising AI spending pushes them to demand clearer return…
Databricks raised funding at a $188 billion valuation, driven by Coatue's bet on enterprise AI governance tools that are outpacing the underlying AI models. The company, founded by UC Berkeley academics to commercialize …
OpenAI faces a leadership shake-up as Scott Galloway and Ed Elson discuss the company's turbulent week and the growing threat from China's latest AI models, arguing that AI's influence is extending beyond Big Tech into d…
AMD has acquired FastFlowLM, a startup that built a runtime environment for on-device AI inferencing on AMD hardware, to accelerate its client and workstation AI software stack. The FastFlowLM team, including University …
Artificial intelligence tools are shrinking video game development teams, enabling solo developers like Emirhan Gül to build games with just two employees, a fraction of the nearly dozen workers in his previous job. More…
Jeff Bezos has backed CuspAI, a startup that is teaming up with Nvidia to use artificial intelligence to discover new materials for chipmaking, as part of a wave of companies applying AI to physical-world challenges.
ETH Zurich spin-off goNEON has secured CHF150,000 (approximately EUR160,000) from Venture Kick to develop an agentic AI platform for infrastructure planning. CEO Raphael Eder and CTO Dr Lukas Ballo plan to use the fundin…