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CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed AI debt collection startup, is hiring its first founding account executive at $300,000-$375,000 OTE to scale beyond founder-led sales after reaching a $2 million annualized run rate. Th…
Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees to switch from Anthropic's Claude to his own company's Grok 4.5, admitting in a memo that Grok is inferior but arguing the cost savings justify the change. Tesla also imposed a $200 week…
GPU architect Raja Koduri's startup Oxmiq raised $35 million on July 1, 2026, to scale its OxCore architecture, a licensable GPU IP block that fuses CPU, GPU, and tensor engines for AI workloads. The Series A, co-led by …
A veteran investor has amassed dominant control over the AI sector through massive investments in startups and projects, raising concerns among industry insiders about stifled competition and homogenized innovation. The …
The race to dominate AI requires billions in investment for research, infrastructure, and talent, with companies like Google and OpenAI spending heavily to avoid irrelevance. Falling behind in AI means losing market shar…
Ornn, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised $33 million to build a marketplace for trading AI computing power as a commodity, aiming to bring price stability to the AI industry. Goldman Sachs estimates $7.6 trillion will…
The U.S. government's June 12, 2026, restriction on Anthropic's Mythos models has eroded trust in closed-source AI, accelerating a shift toward open-weight models from China. Companies like Palantir and Meta are question…
A new AI-powered platform lets ecommerce sellers generate realistic user-generated content (UGC) video ads in minutes using AI actors, voiceovers, and product demos, replacing traditional creator-based production that co…
An AI startup founder argues that companies should hire for obsession rather than résumé credentials, citing the example of an 18-year-old community ambassador who became head of community and later a founding engineer. …
OpenRouter and Andreessen Horowitz analyzed over 100 trillion tokens of real-world LLM usage, finding that open-weight AI models now account for roughly one-third of all token volume. Chinese open-weight models surged fr…
A small product studio is building AI-augmented tools for thinking, deciding, and acting under uncertainty, focusing on narrow domains where judgment matters more than raw output. The studio has shipped tools like Lens (…
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on July 10, alleging that former Apple employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu systematically stole trade secrets related to hardware design and manufacturing to jumpstart OpenAI's device de…
Demand for grade-A office space in Beijing's Zhongguancun district rose in the first half of 2025, driven by expanding AI and semiconductor firms, making it the only submarket to post rent growth. Knight Frank reported a…
AI agent marketplaces are emerging as platforms where autonomous AI agents can be bought, sold, and transacted with each other, moving beyond human-driven app stores. Companies like OpenAI, Salesforce, and Google have la…
Apple is suing OpenAI over the alleged theft of hardware trade secrets, claiming a pattern of theft by former Apple engineers who joined OpenAI and IO Products, the hardware startup by former Apple designer Jony Ive that…
Anthropic is reportedly targeting a $3 trillion valuation as AI companies pursue trillion-dollar IPOs, while Mark Zuckerberg's price war on AI models and China's potential end of open-source AI reshape the industry. Trum…
VeriTest's AI Evaluation Platform, built by Lena, generated only $22K in quarterly revenue against $200K in costs, while an underfunded methodology system costing $9K per quarter supported $3M in annualized delivery. Len…
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman is consolidating control over the company's most profitable products, including ChatGPT, after applications chief Fidji Simo stepped down due to chronic illness. The power grab positions B…
Tripplet, a small independent AI platform, launched a workspace combining chat, code, and research with four specialized models led by Astro 5. The platform offers free access without an account, enabling users to build …
Meta Superintelligence Labs launched Muse Spark 1.1, an upgraded coding agent model that scored 69 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, approaching GPT-5.5's performance while undercutting competitors on pricin…