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Chinese AI startup Moonshot released the Kimi K3 model on Friday (Jul 17), claiming it outperforms all rivals except Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on overall capability, marking a significant step in cl…
OpenAI, with virtually unlimited resources, has launched a wide array of products including image generation, a basketball, a cancelled meme video generator, an upcoming moving speaker, and tools like Operator, Deep Rese…
Anthropic posted a job opening for a director on its investor relations team with a base salary of $425,000 to $600,000, as the AI lab prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering as soon as this fall that will tes…
Canva cofounder and chief product officer Cameron Adams said the company has shifted from a design company to an AI company that does design, scaling up its AI research and machine learning teams to ship product updates …
Stockholm-based AI startup Lovable is on track to reach $1 billion in annual recurring revenue within 12 months, a milestone that would make it one of the fastest companies ever to achieve that threshold. Founded by Anto…
Dutch Zero-Human Company (DZHC) is a live company incorporated in the Netherlands with no human employees in daily operations—AI agents handle engineering, research, client communications, and financial management, while…
SoftBank Group is reportedly preparing to raise up to $60bn in fresh debt to fund its swelling bet on OpenAI, a target that would eclipse any previous bond sale by the Japanese conglomerate. The plan follows a record ¥60…
Meta has hired Dave Brown, a nearly 19-year veteran of Amazon Web Services (AWS) who served as senior vice president, to lead its AI data center expansion and build Meta Compute, a potential cloud computing initiative. B…
Moonshot AI has unveiled Kimi K3, a flagship open-source AI model with 2.8 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window, achieving frontier-level benchmark results. The full model weights will be released b…
Databricks has reached a $188bn valuation in a new funding round led by Coatue Management, surpassing the $175bn figure it was reportedly in talks to raise at weeks earlier. Coatue is investing roughly $3bn in the strate…
Companies should focus on redesigning their organizations rather than chasing the latest AI models as autonomous AI agents approach mainstream enterprise adoption, speakers said Friday at the 2026 CEO Summer Forum hosted…
A Chinese luggage maker's stock-exchange filing implies DeepSeek is valued at around $52bn, the most precise figure yet for the Hangzhou AI startup. Anhui Korrun's subsidiary Ningbo Purun took a 0.8265% indirect stake in…
Gartner's Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit 2026, running September 14-15 in London, aims to help enterprise leaders move AI projects from experimentation to production by addressing technical incompat…
Z.ai, the Chinese AI startup formerly known as Zhipu, is on track to become the first independent Chinese AI firm with about $1bn in annual sales, according to Bloomberg. The company is monetizing at scale while open-sou…
Asian equity markets opened sharply lower Friday, with South Korea's benchmark KOSPI index tumbling more than 6% amid a renewed sell-off in semiconductor and technology stocks, according to Disruption Banking. The declin…
Eoptolink Technology, a Chinese maker of optical parts for AI data centers, has filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, according to Bloomberg. The company, already listed in Shenzhen, reported 2025 re…
Flick is a new email app that turns inboxes into swipe decks, letting users flick through emails one card at a time to archive, mark "no reply needed," or approve an AI draft. The app is free for triage features, with AI…
XAI's Grok 4.5, launched on July 8, 2026, achieved a 29.0% resolution rate on the SWE Marathon benchmark, outperforming Claude Opus 4.8 (26.0%) and Fable (24.0%), and posted an 83.3% rate on Terminal-Bench 2.1, with API …
Some investors are repositioning portfolios for a slowdown in hyperscaler spending growth, betting the near-trillion-dollar AI infrastructure boom may decelerate. UBS projects hyperscaler capex will rise 76% this year to…
Databricks announced strategic funding at a $188 billion valuation, led by existing investor Coatue, to accelerate its AI strategy. The company will use the capital to strengthen Unity AI Gateway, expand Genie, and advan…