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Smart Stock Agent launches an AI-powered US stock analysis platform for NYSE and Nasdaq traders, offering trade strategies, Sharia compliance screening, portfolio tracking, and real-time market data. The platform provide…
Semiconductor stocks fell on Friday, with Micron Technology and Sandisk dropping more than 2% and Western Digital falling more than 3% in premarket trading, as global chip stocks have lost $3.3 trillion in market value s…
Anthropic made Claude Sonnet 5 the default model for all Free and Pro users on June 30 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output, half the price of Opus 4.8, while performing at Opus levels on roughly 80%…
SpaceXAI, formed by merging xAI into SpaceX, launched Grok 4.5 on July 10, 2026, a 1.5 trillion parameter Mixture of Experts model trained on trillions of tokens of real Cursor developer interaction data. The model score…
AI-related debt could reach $570 billion in 2026 as bond demand softens and more financing shifts into private credit and off-balance-sheet vehicles, according to a Forbes report. Bond investors are pushing back as risks…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled its Kimi K3 model on July 17, 2026, with 2.8 trillion parameters, making it the largest open-weight AI model globally and triggering a sharp drop in AI and semiconductor stocks as inv…
AMD reported Q1 2026 revenues of $10.25 billion, a 38% year-over-year increase, with data center revenue reaching approximately $5.775 billion, up 57%. The chipmaker is expanding AI infrastructure through partnerships, i…
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI released Kimi K3 on July 16, a 2.8-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts model that the company says is the largest open-weight AI system ever built, with an Elo rating of 1,547 on A…
Chinese startup Moonshot AI's open-weight model Kimi K3, unveiled Thursday with 2.8 trillion parameters, is rivaling top US systems from OpenAI and Anthropic at lower cost, intensifying the global AI race. The model lead…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released its R1 and V3 reasoning models on January 27, 2025, wiping $589 billion from Nvidia's market cap as investors questioned the need for expensive hardware. Within hours, fraudulent toke…
Suno, the AI music generation platform, raised over $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation, more than doubling its valuation in seven months, as copyright lawsuits from Sony Music and Universal Music Group intensify wi…
Wall Street headed for a weekly loss Friday as AI-related stocks slumped, with S&P 500 futures down 0.8%, Dow futures off 0.5%, and Nasdaq futures tumbling 1.6%. Chipmakers including Micron, Nvidia, Broadcom, Qualcomm, a…
HSBC Holdings Plc upgraded Apple Inc. to buy from hold, citing the company's position in agentic AI and a strong hardware pipeline. Analyst Nicolas Cote-Colisson raised the price target to $366 from $260, noting Apple's …
A Chinese startup, Moonshot AI, has released the world's largest open AI model, narrowing the gap with US rivals and sending AI and semiconductor stocks sliding. The model competes with Anthropic and OpenAI models, as Ch…
General Compute secured a credit facility of up to $400 million from Upper90 Capital Management, backed by SambaNova's SN50 inference ASICs instead of Nvidia GPUs, marking the first major departure from Nvidia collateral…
Menlo Ventures partner Amy Wu Martin led the firm into a $250 million fundraise for AI music platform Suno last fall and re-upped in a $400 million round in June at a $5.4 billion valuation, betting that the joy of singl…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI alleging that former Apple employees stole trade secrets to help develop rival AI hardware, potentially revealing OpenAI's secret device plans if the case goes to trial. The suit …
Tech analyst Ed Zitron warned in a blog post that OpenAI's collapse is a matter of 'when, not if,' comparing it to the Lehman Brothers of the AI bubble. Zitron said OpenAI plans to burn $852 billion by 2030 and will need…
General Compute, an AI inference cloud startup, has secured a $400 million loan from Upper90, marking what may be the first deal to use inference-specific chips as collateral. The financing signals growing market demand …
Nvidia-backed AI company Fireworks raised $1.5 billion in its latest funding round, reaching a $17.5 billion valuation. Fireworks co-founder and CEO Lin Qiao said companies must "own their own intelligence.