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Sophia NLU v1.2, an on-device, low-compute natural language engine built in Rust, now runs voice assistants without internet or a GPU, using only 160MB of RAM. The upgrade adds entity clarification, state persistence, an…
Anthropic, an AI startup, is valued at $965 billion but still relies on Google for financial support, highlighting the high costs and dependency on big tech in the AI industry.
Blaize announced its edge AI strategy, a partnership with Nokia, and a revenue outlook of $130 million for 2026, positioning itself in the competitive AI chip market.
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor announced Friday it plans to acquire 50 billion won ($32.9 million) in SpaceX shares ahead of the U.S. space company's stock market debut. The investment, representing about 7.24 percent…
COOCON joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member on June 1, planning to participate in working groups on AI agent payments and data businesses built on the Model Context Protocol. AAIF, an open-source co…
Gravy launched a CLI-based ad marketplace for Claude Code that pays developers 70% of revenue for displaying sponsored lines in their terminal status bar. The platform operates entirely through the command line, with pay…
By early 2026, "vibe coding" — describing software in natural language and accepting AI-generated output — had become a mainstream development workflow, with Collins Dictionary naming it Word of the Year and tools like L…
A developer built an AI agent that automatically converts its USDC earnings into fiat currency deposited to a bank account, using the x402 payment protocol and FiatDock service. The agent sells API calls for tiny USDC pa…
The Nasdaq-100 will add CoreWeave, Rocket Lab, Astera Labs, Nebius Group, and Teradyne to its flagship index effective June 22, replacing Charter Communications, Cognizant, Insmed, Verisk Analytics, and Zscaler. The quar…
Rajit Khanna is transforming PrismVideos from an AI media creation product into an agent infrastructure provider after the company replaced its custom media agent with a hosted Hermes setup and began offering the same ar…
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation in a round that included JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global and Arch Venture Par…
A developer has built SwiPR, a tool that transforms GitHub pull request review into a swipe-based interface with AI context, addressing the bottleneck of PR review in an era of increased code creation. The tool, which wo…
AI robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A funding round, led by CRV and backed by Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, to build reconfigurable factory robots designed for multiple tasks rather than single-pu…
Research, research and development (R&D), and product engineering are fundamentally different jobs with distinct goals, success criteria, and personnel, not simply the same work performed at different speeds. Confusing t…
SpaceX raised a record US$75 billion in its initial public offering on Thursday, making Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire with a net worth exceeding US$1.1 trillion. The IPO highlights investor enthusiasm for Musk…
A developer argues that constraints, not unlimited resources, are the key to building successful products in 2026. With modern tools like Clerk, Convex, and Stripe, a single person can now build and deploy a SaaS product…
Jeff Bezos's physical AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to develop an "artificial general engineer" that automates the design and manufacturing of complex physical systems. The funding r…
Innodata Inc. (INOD) is highlighted as a potential under-the-radar AI stock to consider buying in 2026, according to a recent analysis. The company operates in the AI data services space, providing training data and rela…
Mitek Systems, Inc. (MITK) is highlighted as an under-the-radar AI stock to buy in 2026, leveraging its identity verification and fraud detection technology. The company's AI-driven solutions position it for growth in th…
Rezolve AI (RZLV) has hired a Microsoft veteran, signaling a strategic move to bolster its leadership in artificial intelligence. The appointment is expected to drive growth and innovation at the AI startup.