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EPFL's Nevo Project aims to democratize AI by creating one of the largest open datasets, but skeptics warn that without adequate computational resources and expertise, the initiative could widen the AI talent gap rather …
WP Converters launched a new online playground for AI experimentation, aiming to lower technical barriers for both novices and experienced developers. However, the platform faces stiff competition from established player…
SpaceX unveiled its first AI compute satellite, the AI1, as part of its Starmind constellation, designed for orbital AI compute. Elon Musk's companies secured approximately $50 billion in infrastructure rental deals with…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI agents are transforming software engineering roles at the company, shifting engineers from coding to building agents and guardrails. Huang rejected fears of job losses, arguing AI is creat…
SK Hynix reached a $1 trillion market capitalization on May 27, 2026, driven by surging demand for its high-bandwidth memory chips used in NVIDIA's AI accelerators. The South Korean chipmaker, which was near bankruptcy t…
Anthropic has reached a $1.2 trillion valuation on secondary markets, driven by a 550% year-over-year increase and scarcity of shares, making it the most coveted company in venture secondary market history. The AI gold r…
Monumint, founded by Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis, pivoted from AI data analysis startup OmniAI to build AI agents for banking, securing backing from FundersClub, Y Combinator, and Imagination Capital. The company now se…
Turbo AI co-founder Sarthak Dhawan accidentally spent $30,000 on AI tokens in April due to leaving Claude Code's fast mode enabled, but the startup views the expense as a strategic investment in speed and innovation rath…
Investors are rotating out of Nvidia and into Chinese and Korean chip stocks, with SK Hynix raising nearly $29 billion in a Nasdaq ADR listing and Chinese memory maker CXMT preparing a $4.3 billion IPO. The shift reflect…
Elon Musk predicted that SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth if it achieves its goals, responding to a debate about the company's AI infrastructure deal with Anthropic. Musk also acknowledged Anthropic as th…
U.S. venture capitalists deployed a record $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, with 86% going to AI deals and 91% to deals of $100 million or more, according to a PitchBook and NVCA report. The market is hyper-conc…
Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of Manus, an AI startup that Meta had agreed to acquire for over $2bn before Beijing blocked the deal on national-security grounds. A consortium of Manus' earlier inv…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's chief of applications and de facto number two executive, is stepping down after a three-month medical leave for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome did not lead to a full recovery. She will rem…
Stilta, a Stockholm-based legal AI startup founded by former McKinsey and QuantumBlack engineers, raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI agents for patent litigation, focusing on evi…
Lovable, a Swedish startup enabling non-coders to build web apps via natural language, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from seven months ago. The company hit $500 mi…
Meta has entered the AI API market with Muse Spark 1.1, priced at $4.25 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. The aggressive pricing intensifies the AI API price war…
Software developer Tarun Gupta launched Autopilot-Jobhunt, a free AI tool that searches for job postings and generates tailored resumes and cover letters but does not submit applications. The tool uses open-source AI mod…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a new AI model for coding and AI agents, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg promising aggressive pricing to challenge high-cost rivals like Google and OpenAI. The move could spark a price war in the A…
Anthropic has announced that users of its top-tier AI model, Claude, will face usage-based fees, ending the era of unlimited access under a flat subscription model. The shift reflects the rising operational costs of soph…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol nearly matches Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 in performance but costs a third as much, pricing tasks at $1.04 each. The model's competitive pricing and strong agentic coding performance could disrupt th…