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Rapturous Studio's Robot Rhapsody, a pixel-styled turn-based JRPG about fighting back against AI-controlled utopias, has been fully funded on Kickstarter with 25 days remaining. The game follows retired mercenary Selva a…
New York Life Investment Management global market strategist Julia Hermann warns that 'chipflation'—surging prices for AI-related logic and memory chips—will be the next major test for the AI trade, as rising costs press…
Jeff Bezos's Bezos Expeditions joined Kleiner Perkins and NEA in a $450 million Series B for Cambridge-based AI startup CuspAI, valuing the two-year-old company at $2.6 billion — a five-fold increase from its $520 millio…
Despite a broader tech backlash against 'tokenmaxxing'—spending excessively on AI compute—some companies are doubling down on premium frontier models. Shopify requires engineers to use only top-tier models like OpenAI's …
A new report from Futurum Group analyst Mitch Ashley maps the AI market into eight layers—applications, builder tools, governance, runtime, software substrate, models, infrastructure and silicon—and identifies six archet…
South Korea's KOSPI plunged 4.46% on Monday as AI spending concerns resurfaced after Chinese startup Moonshot unveiled its low-cost Kimi K3 model, and escalating US-Iran tensions weighed on sentiment. Institutional inves…
Finland is emerging as one of Europe's fastest-growing data center markets, driven by AI demand, abundant renewable energy, and favorable policies, according to a report from DC Byte. The country's operational IT load ha…
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based startup, closed a $450 million Series B at a $2.6 billion valuation, co-led by Bezos Expeditions, to scale its AI-driven materials discovery platform. The company's valuation surged from $52…
Moonshot, the AI startup behind the Kimi K3 model, has paused new subscriptions after GPU demand maxed out within 48 hours of the model's release. The company announced on X that demand pushed close to capacity limits, a…
RISC-V International CEO Andrea Gallo declared at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2026 in Bologna that the open-standard instruction set architecture is now targeting data centers, edge AI, and space exploration, following the …
CuspAI, a Cambridge, UK-based materials discovery startup, raised $450 million in Series B funding on July 20, achieving a $2.6 billion valuation two years after founding. Kleiner Perkins and NEA co-led the round, with B…
Fireworks AI hit $1 billion in annual recurring revenue with 200 employees by betting on millions of specialized AI models rather than a single AGI, and founder and CEO Lin Qiao predicts token costs will fall 10x while u…
Meshy, a 3D generation platform, has raised nearly $400 million in Series B funding at a valuation exceeding 10 billion yuan, the company disclosed on July 20th. The round, backed by new investors including IDG Capital, …
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975B-parameter open-weight model, on July 15. Within hours, Artificial Analysis scored Inkling at 41 on its Intelligence Index, making it the top-scoring open-weigh…
OpenAI has seen a resurgence of interest in secondary markets after releasing new models and its AI coding agent Codex, according to Dave McClure, founder and managing partner at Practical Venture Capital. While Anthropi…
Legal startups raised $2.1 billion globally in the first half of 2025, per Crunchbase, as investors race to back AI-driven companies in a sector transformed by ChatGPT. Business Insider asked venture capitalists to nomin…
Prior Labs, a European AI startup, has grown from a research project to a €1B-backed lab in 18 months, setting a new benchmark for deeptech in the region.
Kai-Fu Lee's 01.AI is seeking a pre-IPO financing round before pursuing a Hong Kong listing in 2027, Bloomberg reported on July 20. Lee plans to close the round around the publication of 01.AI's first annual results, tho…
Alex Hormozi argues that most founders are building AI companies they shouldn't, and the real opportunity lies in practical, reality-grounded businesses where reputation and credibility are the only moats AI can't erode.…
Emergent Ventures announced its 56th cohort of winners, including Thomas Haferlach of Berlin to build a payments and compute layer for the long tail of AI apps, and Alex Petropoulos and Max Reddel of Brussels to prepare …