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A developer building a social platform called spritex-social accidentally pivoted to an AI startup after creating a support chatbot that grew beyond its original purpose. The chatbot, initially powered by Google's Gemini…
American AI companies are repeating the mistakes of the 1983 video game crash by rushing low-quality AI products to market, eroding consumer trust. This creates an opportunity for ambitious startups to build high-quality…
Dubai-based physical AI startup Ahoy is relocating its R&D hub to Montréal, planning to hire 200 people for research, engineering, and go-to-market roles. The company, which develops AI infrastructure for physical-world …
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company, is developing a general-purpose AI agent called Sand to compete with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT in workplace productivity. The tool, currently in internal testing …
Galaxy Digital completed Phase I of its Helios data center campus in West Texas, delivering 133 megawatts to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. CEO Mike Novogratz pivoted the site from a distressed bitcoin mine to an AI po…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor IDE, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, 2026. The acquisition raises concerns about Cursor's model neutrality, as SpaceX's xAI division may …
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, claiming it matches Claude Opus 4.8 in capability while using far fewer tokens. Independent testing by Artificial Analysis confirmed Grok 4.5 uses over 60% fewer output tokens per ta…
Drafted released V2 of its AI home-design tool on Friday, adding room placement controls, partial regeneration, and exterior customization. The San Francisco startup aims to solve the problem of AI-generated home plans t…
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman revealed a $25 billion backlog of orders, anchored by a $20 billion deal with OpenAI, as the AI chipmaker struggles to meet demand due to supply chain constraints. The company went pub…
Meta stock rose over 5% on Friday, turning positive year to date, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to rent AI computing power to third parties and announced a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, priced significantly lo…
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator sold nearly 370,000 shares for $31 million, bringing total insider sales since the March 2025 IPO to over $2.3 billion. The GPU cloud provider reported $2.08 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, up …
OpenAI is considering significant per-token price cuts for its AI services amid competitive pressure from Anthropic and enterprise customer complaints about high costs, complicating its path to a $1 trillion IPO valuatio…
The US Federal Reserve appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to co-lead a task force examining how artificial intelligence reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy. The task force, part of…
Drafted released a major V2 upgrade to its AI home design tool, featuring a new in-house model that runs 60% faster and achieves 5 times higher plan-adherence accuracy. The San Francisco startup, founded by Nicholas Dona…
RuntimeWire launched a text-message alert channel for AI and startup news, allowing subscribers to receive breaking alerts and daily digests via SMS without an app or email. Users can opt in by texting JOIN to +1 512-437…
Palantir's forward deployed engineering (FDE) methodology, which embeds engineers directly with clients, is setting a standard for AI deployment success. Other companies are racing to adopt similar strategies, but replic…
Tencent is preparing to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's planned acquisition. The move signals Tencent's ambition to enhance its AI capabilities, …
NVIDIA is introducing a revenue-sharing and credit-support model for specialized AI cloud providers, financing GPU deployments to bypass hyperscaler custom silicon and secure distribution for inference workloads. The str…
Elon Musk admitted on X that he was 'clearly wrong' about Anthropic, now calling the AI company 'obviously currently the leader in AI' and praising its Mythos/Fable model. The reversal came amid Anthropic's compute deal …
Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's earlier acquisition attempt. The deal would support Tencent's plans to integrate AI agents…