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Orcar, founded in 2021 by CEO Jung Jae-ho, COO Park Jeong-ki, and CTO Lee Jong-wan, is using artificial intelligence to digitize the car rental process for foreign visitors at Jeju International Airport, focusing on auto…
Justin McLeod, founder of Hinge, is launching a new AI-powered matchmaking service called Overtone that has raised $18 million in seed funding from FirstMark Capital, Pace Capital and Match Group. The service uses artifi…
Robert McDonald has released an open-source demo concept called SpiralOS, an AI assistant designed to help people without constant WiFi access or teachers by pulling information only from trusted real books. The long-ter…
Meta is reportedly launching Meta Compute, a cloud service offering hosted Llama model APIs and raw GPU rental, directly competing with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Bloomberg reported the plans on July 1, 2026, causing …
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI, recently renamed SpaceXAI, is in turmoil as it struggles to match rival Anthropic's Claude chatbot, leading to dozens of employee departures, a planned 30% workforce reduction, and the departu…
Frontier AI labs are undermining their own competitive advantages by open-sourcing key technologies and failing to protect proprietary research, according to a new analysis. The report argues that this self-sabotage erod…
DeepSeek slashed pricing for its V4-Pro AI model by 75%, intensifying the AI inference pricing war and pressuring competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic. The move has led to a moderate decrease in confidence about Anthrop…
Fora, an AI-powered travel agency, announced a $60 million Series D round at a $1 billion valuation, led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures with participation from Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, Heartcore Capital, PLU…
Mizuho Securities analyst Daniel O'Regan named Micron Technology the third most important stock globally behind Nvidia and Alphabet, citing AI-driven demand that has sold out all of Micron's 2026 high-bandwidth memory pr…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model trained from scratch with full open weights under an Apache 2.0 license. Inkling sc…
Sunday Robotics' Memo robot achieves a 99% success rate in folding laundry in unfamiliar homes, powered by the ACT-2 AI model that adapts to new environments. CEO Tony Zhao predicts autonomous home robots will become via…
A new report reveals that 107 enterprises are racing to invest in AI infrastructure, but 83% report GPU utilization at 50% or less and fewer than half can track compute costs. Only 21% run AI in production at scale, yet …
Sunday Robotics unveiled ACT-2, a new AI model powering its Memo home robot that folds laundry successfully more than 99% of the time in unfamiliar homes on garments it has never seen before. The Bay Area-based startup a…
Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are guiding for between $635 billion and $665 billion in combined 2026 capital expenditure, with some estimates reaching $725 billion, as earnings reports begin this week. Amazon lea…
Anthropic's valuation is projected to reach $1.25 trillion by year-end, driven by an AI infrastructure boom that is reshaping enterprise spending, according to prediction-market data showing 89.5% odds of the outcome. Th…
Moonshot AI is preparing to release Kimi K3, an open-weight model with 2 trillion to 3 trillion parameters, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 pricing. The Beijing startup, valued at $20 billion after a $2 …
Alpaca Markets closed a $135 million funding round led by Peak XV on July 16, 2026, to build AI agent trading infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets. The developer-centric brokerage API provider saw its mon…
Arya, an AI-driven relationship wellness startup, has acquired Flamme, a couples-focused app with 200,000 users, to integrate monetization tools and enhance user engagement. Arya CEO Offer Yehudai said the move combines …
Goldman Sachs led a $100 million Series D round for Spectro Cloud, a Santa Clara startup whose PaletteAI software manages GPU clusters across different chip vendors and clouds, bringing total funding to $260 million. The…
Adaptional, an AI-powered insurance claims review startup and Y Combinator S25 batch member, is hiring a Founding GTM Lead and a Founding Engineer in San Francisco, with salaries ranging from $140K to $280K and equity up…