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Niles Investment Management founder Dan Niles said AI spending is hitting a "speed bump" as companies reduce tokenmaxxing and cut AI costs, speaking on Market Domination.
Meta plans to start manufacturing its Iris AI chip in September 2026, working with Broadcom on design and TSMC on manufacturing, as part of a push to expand compute capacity from 7 gigawatts in 2026 to 14 gigawatts in 20…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed the company is exploring an AI cloud business to rent out its massive AI compute capacity, potentially competing with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Meta is on …
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal AI model for agentic coding, on Thursday to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. The model costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, positioning it…
Yahoo Finance reports that high-quality AI stocks are currently undervalued, presenting a buying opportunity for investors. The article highlights that recent market dips have made these stocks more attractive.
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, a coding-focused AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, significantly undercutting Anthropic's Opus 4.8. The model, built on SpaceXAI's V9 foundation …
Meta Platforms will begin manufacturing its in-house AI chip, code-named Iris, in September, according to an internal memo. The chip, designed with Broadcom and fabricated by TSMC, is part of Meta's MTIA program to reduc…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model, and a commercial API to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI coding market. The closed-source model, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per mi…
SK Hynix launched a massive US share offering on Nasdaq targeting up to $29.4 billion, one of the largest foreign share sales in history, to fund new chip fabrication facilities and EUV lithography scanners. The South Ko…
AI training data startup Mercor is in early talks to raise new capital at a $20 billion valuation, double its October 2025 valuation, as co-founder Brendan Foody reports annualized revenue run rate has crossed $2 billion…
Meta's AI division, Meta Superintelligence (MSL), has made significant progress in the past year following a rebuild after the Llama 4 failure, with advantages in data, talent, and compute that position it to potentially…
Elon Musk reversed his stance on Anthropic, calling it the clear leader in AI and praising its Mythos and Fable models as unmatched. He also predicted the imminent release of Mythos 2. The endorsement is notable given Mu…
In 2026, reinforcement-learning environments became the most contested resource in AI, with open-source lab Prime Intellect warning that big labs are locking them down and Anthropic reportedly planning to spend over $1 b…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-integrated AI agent that can autonomously perform knowledge-worker tasks such as debugging, code review, and project management, marking what some analysts call the first product ca…
Anthropic's new product Claude Tag, integrated into Slack, can autonomously perform knowledge work tasks such as debugging, code review, and data aggregation, leading the author to declare that AGI—defined as an AI syste…
Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity in AI application co…
OpenAI merged its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT desktop app and introduced a Work setting, aiming to create a super app for professionals. The company also released its GPT-5.6 model family as it competes with An…
OpenAI and Anthropic have both confidentially filed for IPOs, positioning themselves for historic public offerings. The two AI companies differ in valuation, revenue growth, and corporate strategy, with OpenAI valued hig…
A Redfin analysis estimates that employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, with post-tax IPO equity totaling $198 billion, could theoretically purchase 29% of homes in the San Francisco metro area. OpenAI employees hold about $…
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business to rent out spare computing power, aiming to monetize its over $100 billion AI infrastructure investment. The move would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and G…