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Nokaze, a one-human company run by a field worker named jun with an AI team, generated ¥0 revenue in three months despite shipping multiple products and publishing 32 articles. The AI CTO Zen reports that B2B outreach yi…
An MBA and cyber project manager who built a trading risk automation tool using AI coding tools reports zero traction six days after launch, with only three posts, two followers, and essentially no visitors. The creator,…
A regulatory filing by Chinese textile company Anhui Korrun disclosed that a fund tied to one of its subsidiaries invested 2.90 billion yuan for an indirect 0.8265% stake in DeepSeek, valuing the AI lab at about 350.88 b…
China's AI companies are poised to deliver robust earnings, with some along the chip supply chain flagging profit surges exceeding 1,000%, but elevated expectations after a months-long rally have made it harder for tech …
Seattle startup logcat.ai announced a $2.55 million pre-seed round to build agentic AI systems for the operating-system, kernel, and firmware layer, enabling autonomous parsing of system logs and diagnosis of kernel pani…
Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that scored 93.5% on GPQA Diamond and 91.2% on BrowseComp, positioning it near frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. The model uses sparsity w…
A regulatory filing from Chinese luggage manufacturer Anhui Korrun reveals an implied valuation of approximately $51.82 billion for AI startup DeepSeek, based on a 0.8265% indirect stake purchased for 2.9 billion yuan ($…
Leapd, an AI platform that builds and runs businesses 24/7, enables founders to launch new ventures from a single sentence or grow existing ones by automating operations across channels. Users report significant results,…
A developer is building a conversational symbolic AI model, arguing that non-neural architectures offer computational efficiency and the ability to maintain millions of lines of reasoning. The developer, a beginner progr…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 on OpenRouter on July 9, but restricted access to US developers only, according to Meta's developer announcement. The open-weight, multimodal coding model is priced at $1.25 per million input…
Former DeepMind researcher Andrew Dai raised $55 million in seed funding for his startup Elorian AI at a $300 million valuation before building any product, with backing from Menlo Ventures, Altimeter, and Striker Ventur…
A former pilot turned entrepreneur founded RendeRex, a Dubai-based hardware company, in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, initially aiming to sell 3D rendering workstations but pivoting to AI workstations after adding '…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, with 2.8 trillion parameters, outperforms proprietary systems like Claude Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 high on benchmarks, scoring an Elo rating of 1547 in long-horizon knowledge work…
Chinese EV maker Xpeng expects to produce more than 1,000 humanoid robots a month by end of 2026 and plans global commercial deliveries of its Iron humanoid robot in 2027, CEO He Xiaopeng said. The company projects selli…
National security concerns, not market forces, will determine the outcome of the US-China AI race, according to a commentary in The Business Times. The article notes that while Chinese AI models are cheaper and nearly as…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese startup, has unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion-parameter open-weight model with a 1 million-token context window that outperformed Anthropic's Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in blind coding tests …
Blue Magma, a startup building AI agents for SOC 2 compliance, has shifted its sales strategy to target AI agents rather than humans, after an agent responded to a LinkedIn post and connected the company with a real cust…
Cerebras Systems has discontinued its free tier plan for inference API access, replacing it with a $5 free credit offer for new accounts. The company now offers paid Developer and Enterprise tiers, with Developer startin…
OpenAI faces a series of legal and reputational challenges that could erode its competitive edge against rival Anthropic, which was founded by former OpenAI employees and is gaining ground in the AI race. The legal distr…
Alibaba-backed Chinese AI startup Moonshot unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model that outperforms Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on some benchmarks, with Arena.ai CEO Anastasio…