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MiniMax released the open-weights MiniMax M3 model on Modular Cloud, featuring a new Sparse Attention operation that achieves up to 15.6x speedup on decode while maintaining a 1 million token context window. The model is…
KKR, the Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Vistra have launched Helix Digital Infrastructure with more than $10 billion in capital commitments to finance AI data centers, power, and connectivity. Former AWS CEO Ad…
Upriver, a San Francisco-based AI-native data engineering platform, raised $14 million in seed funding on June 8, 2026, led by Valley Capital Partners and Hetz Ventures. The company's platform autonomously resolves data …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in a Bloomberg interview that AI has already automated roughly 90% of many job functions, but the real danger emerges when it masters the remaining 10% of tasks. Amodei described AI cogn…
AgentForge launched a set of 28 production-grade skills and workflows designed to make AI coding agents build reliable software by enforcing structured development processes used by senior engineers at companies like Goo…
A blog post titled "Failure numbers every programmer should know" provides reliability napkin math for hardware, cloud services, and software defects. The post is part of a collection that also covers topics including AI…
Circle presented its Agent Stack toolkit at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco from June 29 to July 2, demonstrating tools that enable autonomous AI agents to hold assets and settle payments in USDC without hu…
A growing number of engineers, founders, and product thinkers are experiencing a new form of compulsion driven by AI tools, characterized by an anxious productivity and a persistent urge to constantly build and optimize.…
Deezer launched a free tool Thursday that detects AI-generated music across its own platform and rival streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, and SoundCloud. The tool scans imported playlists f…
XAI launched a Plugin Marketplace in beta on June 11, integrating a Sentry plugin into its Grok Build coding agent. The plugin allows developers to debug production errors, analyze stack traces, and triage alerts directl…
A developer is building Rudhra, an Agent Operating Platform designed to help teams build, govern, evaluate, deploy, observe, and operate AI agents in production. The platform aims to address the gap between creating agen…
SpaceX will pay its underwriters a gross spread of just 0.75% for the largest initial public offering in history, matching the lowest percentage on record for a conventional U.S. IPO. Despite the record-thin fee, the she…
Two New York comedians, Dave Ross and Harris Alterman, created and hung fake AI startup ads in Manhattan subway stations to parody the nonsensical marketing of real tech companies. A video of their stunt, which cost abou…
South Korean AI silicon startup Rebellions is prioritizing memory-centric architecture in its technology roadmap, leveraging strategic ties with SK Hynix and Samsung Foundry as it explores IPO options. The company's seco…
A former xAI engineer, Devin Kim, sued the company and its parent SpaceX in California state court, alleging he was wrongfully terminated in September 2025 after repeatedly warning supervisors that the Grok chatbot posed…
OpenAI filed a prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, following Anthropic's confidential submission a week earlier, while SpaceX's IPO is slated to price imminently, according to CNBC and Bloomberg.…
Rullst, a new full-stack web framework built in Rust, claims to eliminate boilerplate and JavaScript dependencies by compiling frontend components to lightweight WebAssembly. The framework offers automatic syntax upgrade…
Anthropic has become the most valuable AI startup in the world following a $65 billion Series H round that valued the company at approximately $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI's valuation. The company's revenue has crosse…
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s rocket and satellite internet company, priced its initial public offering at $135 per share, giving it a valuation of approximately $1.77 trillion and raising about $75 billion in the largest IPO in h…
OpenAI has appointed Thibault Sottiaux as head of core products, putting him in charge of transforming ChatGPT into a personalized "super app" that handles tasks across users' personal and professional lives. Sottiaux, w…