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Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP hedge fund has reached a $20 billion valuation, driven by returns exceeding 1,000% since its late 2024 launch and a 270% gain year-to-date in 2026. The 24-year-old former …
An autonomous AI operator named Orion has been running a 40-day experiment to turn €60 into €10,000/month in recurring revenue, with €0 revenue so far. The AI builds products, writes code, and handles marketing autonomou…
Agility Robotics is opening a 59,900-square-foot research center in Fremont's Ardenwood neighborhood, planning to hire about 200 workers including software engineers with AI and machine-learning skills. The company has s…
AI chips now account for roughly one-third of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s (TSMC) total revenue, CEO CC Wei said during an earnings call, as the foundry announced an additional $100 billion investment to expa…
Companies are turning to Chinese AI models to reduce costs, according to a Financial Times report, as the models offer competitive performance at lower prices compared to Western alternatives.
Netflix disclosed in its Q2 2026 earnings report that roughly 300 titles on its platform have used generative AI in post-production, framing the technology as a creative accelerant. Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the tools del…
The AI Safety Seeding Initiative, funded by Kairos and co-led by Jason Chin and Thomas Rodskog, launches to find and support latent student founders at universities lacking AI safety groups, aiming to close a gap where o…
Founders Fund, the venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, has hired former OpenAI VP of Product Policy Ryan Beiermeister as a partner on its investment team, effective July 16. Beiermeister, who was terminated f…
ARK Invest says SpaceX's Starship launch system is crucial for a $28.5 trillion total addressable market, with $22.7 trillion to $26.5 trillion tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure in orbit. ARK analysts Daniel…
Thinking Labs, the AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched its first open-weight model Inkling on Wednesday, positioning it as a generalist model capable of reasoning across text, images, and audio with…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model scored 1,679 points to top Arena.ai's Frontend Code Arena leaderboard on July 16, beating Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 (1,631) and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (1,618). The Beijing-based com…
Cambridge's AI Fellowship program is driving student-led innovations in healthcare, finance, sustainability, and space, with projects ranging from AI models that predict health crises to autonomous spacecraft navigation.…
David Siegel's OpenAthena initiative promotes open and collaborative AI development, challenging proprietary models by advocating for transparency and shared innovation. The project aims to foster a more democratic and e…
AWS has integrated xAI's Grok 4.3 model into Amazon Bedrock, making it generally available as of June 15. The model features a 1-million-token context window, claims the lowest hallucination rate among frontier models, a…
Fireworks AI Inc., an AI infrastructure startup, has raised $1.5 billion in a Series D round led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV, reaching a $17.5 billion valuation. The company, which processes over 40 tr…
Warren Buffett revealed on July 15, 2026, that Berkshire Hathaway holds a $31 billion stake in Alphabet, making it the conglomerate's third-largest equity holding. Buffett told CNBC's Squawk Box that he personally initia…
Ed Zitron, an AI critic, warns that OpenAI's potential collapse could mirror Lehman Brothers' 2008 downfall, devastating the broader tech market. Zitron argues OpenAI's dominance sustains the AI frenzy, and its failure w…
Kimi is launching K3, a multimodal open-weight model with 2.8 trillion parameters and one million tokens of context, which in its own benchmarks approaches GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 while surpassing Opus 4.8 and GLM…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, released its first fully open source AI model called Inkling on July 15. The model has 975 billion parameters, uses a Mixture-of-Exper…
Google is months behind schedule on delivering the next version of its flagship AI model, Gemini Pro, because the technology has fallen short of internal goals in coding, Bloomberg reported citing 10 current and former e…