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Apoorv Shankar has raised $5.5 million for Aina, an AI hardware company he founded after leaving Ultrahuman, to build devices that control AI agents rather than just record users. The round was led by Redstart Labs and 3…
Scott Galloway's newsletter 'No Mercy / No Malice' draws parallels between the current AI boom and the dot-com era of 1999, warning of overvaluation and hype. Galloway argues that while AI is transformative, many compani…
AI is making solopreneurship increasingly attractive, enabling lean startups while reducing traditional corporate career stability and appeal, according to a Forbes contributor.
Appointmed, a healthcare SaaS with roughly €2M ARR and 3,500 customers, runs 100% agentic coding where production code is written through agents by default, but humans own product direction, architecture, tradeoffs, revi…
Ventara, a new startup, aims to build practical AI systems that solve real business problems rather than chasing the latest trends. The company focuses on creating natural voice interfaces for software, believing that th…
Anthropic is capping access to its Claude Fable 5 model at 50% of normal usage limits starting July 20, citing demand that has been "challenging" to meet due to insufficient compute infrastructure. The company delayed th…
Anthropic will include Claude Fable 5 in Max and Team Premium plans starting July 20, but at just 50 percent of regular limits, which themselves drop by a third that same day. Pro users get a one-time $100 credit, then p…
Anthropic is rumored to be acquiring Physical Intelligence, a robot foundation-model developer, according to an uncorroborated claim from Robert Scoble citing an unnamed investor. Physical Intelligence builds universal r…
GPU.ai will host a Buildathon on August 22, 2026, offering a $1,000 grand prize and $100 category prizes for projects built on its free cloud GPUs. Only 50 teams will be accepted to build AI apps, agents, inference APIs,…
Venture capitalist Neil Rimer of Index Ventures predicts that AI-generated wealth, currently concentrated among model builders and infrastructure owners, will shift to a broader set of players including software develope…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model, topped LMArena's Frontend Code Arena at 1,679 Elo within days of its July 16 release, jumping 17 places from its predecessor Kimi K2.6. The model costs $…
Americans filed 5.7 million applications to start new businesses last year, the highest in two decades, according to the Census Bureau, with generative AI fueling the surge. A study from the University of British Columbi…
Postlia, a social media scheduler built by a two-person team, launches new pricing today with simpler plans, offering cross-posting to LinkedIn, Bluesky, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube Shorts, and Mastodon, with X…
Databricks signed a term sheet valuing it at $188 billion, a 40% jump in five months, on a new $3 billion investment led by Coatue Management. The company sells data infrastructure for AI rather than a chatbot, and the r…
Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said artificial intelligence can become a "game changer" for the country's economy, projecting Indonesia's digital economy potential at $135 billi…
Microsoft launched a $2.5 billion company, Microsoft Frontier Company, on July 2, embedding 6,000 engineers inside customer operations to deploy AI systems that produce measurable outcomes, after MIT's Project NANDA foun…
A developer built an AI tool called StartupForge AI to test whether a single sentence describing a startup idea could be turned into a structured blueprint. The experiment with a fintech app for freelancers produced a de…
Meta Platforms is in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to US$10 billion over two years, according to a source familiar with the matter. The deal would help Meta diversify beyond adv…
The Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation on July 14, 2026, an open standards body for AI agent payments, with 40 founding members including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, Google, Amazon Web Services…
Anthropic PBC is reportedly in early-stage discussions with Meta Platforms Inc. to lease data center capacity in a deal that could be worth $10 billion over two years, according to The New York Times. The AI developer, w…