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OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role due to a worsening neuroimmune condition, just as the company prepares for its IPO. Simo, who oversaw product and business operations, will bec…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse Spark 1.1, a proprietary AI model optimized for coding and autonomous agent workflows, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market. The model, priced aggressively at $1.25 …
Genghis AI, an Irish-built artificial intelligence platform, automates the manual assembly work of tax advisory, enabling complex tax technical work to be completed in minutes rather than days. The platform targets the $…
Tingyu Su, founding designer at healthcare AI startup Youlify, argues that AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic early hire to build cohesive brand and customer experience. Su says that as AI make…
SK Hynix's $27 billion Nasdaq IPO, which was 7x oversubscribed, triggered a risk-on wave that boosted cryptocurrency markets, with altcoins posting double-digit gains. Bitcoin rose 1.8% to near $64,000, while Ethereum cl…
OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic released a flurry of new AI products and models over 72 hours, including OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family and GPT-Live voice model, Meta's Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1, and SpaceXAI's Grok 4…
Scott Aaronson and his brother announced the launch of BQP Partners, a new angel-investing venture, marking Aaronson's entry into startup investing after years of focusing on academic research in quantum computing and AI…
A fifth-year Brown University PhD student shares surprising lessons from a research scientist job search, revealing that only one or two papers matter for getting interviews and that candidates are often evaluated on pro…
Morgan Stanley chief US equity strategist Mike Wilson warned that semiconductor stocks are overbought, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index up 96% year-to-date and trading 35% above its 50-day moving average, the wi…
French AI company Mistral released Robostral Navigate, a model that enables robots to follow plain-language instructions using a single RGB camera, achieving a 76.6% score on the R2R-CE benchmark. The model outperforms s…
French AI company Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, a new AI model that enables robots to navigate using only a single RGB camera and plain language instructions, achieving a 76.6% score on the R2R-CE benchmark. T…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says companies are moving from renting AI via frontier APIs to open source models as costs scale, with Hugging Face now used by half the Fortune 500. He warns against a handful of big compa…
Alta, an AI go-to-market platform founded by Stav Levi-Neumark, Tom Hoffen, and Mor Shabtai, raised $25 million in Series A funding led by IN Venture to build an AI command layer for revenue teams. The company's 'Company…
StepFun, a Chinese AI unicorn, is developing its first agentic AI smartphone, signaling a shift in AI competition from data centers to mobile devices. The company, backed by electronics supply chain firms including Huaqi…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie pledged to forgo his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, while the Chinese AI firm seeks up to $2 billion in a discounted share sale after its stock lost 80% of its v…
Sunrun, the largest US residential solar provider, launched a pilot program to install AI compute nodes in customers' homes, paying homeowners to host the hardware and selling the compute power to enterprise clients. The…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training marketplace run by a 23-year-old CEO, is in talks to raise at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth in nine months despite a recent data breach that cost it Meta as a customer. …
Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin to fund a $65 million investment in a 150 MW AI data center project in the Midwest developed with Hunt Properties. The company, which rebranded from Volcon as a Bitcoin treasury firm in …
SpaceX's near-term AI value lies in terrestrial compute infrastructure, not orbital plans, with deals for its Colossus supercomputer clusters expected to generate over $28 billion in annual revenue, far exceeding its spa…
Sunrun, a solar and home energy storage company, is launching a pilot program to place AI compute nodes in customers' homes, compensating them for hosting the equipment. The company plans to sell the distributed compute …