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Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raised $100 million in a seed round reopened to new investors, including Nvidia. The company plans to use the funds to open a Bay Area office and compete for talent, strengthening its…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch joined Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels on July 9, 2026, to advocate for European AI sovereignty, warning that Europe has a two-year window to build competitive AI computing capacity b…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora called for a 90% drop in AI token prices within three to five years, arguing that current pricing is unsustainable for enterprise adoption. Arora cited rising inference costs and ineff…
Anthropic will charge usage-based fees for its Claude Fable 5 AI model starting July 12, requiring subscribers to pay $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens on top of existing monthly plans. This …
HUMAIN, a PIF-backed company, and AI firm Cohere announced a partnership in which HUMAIN will provide at least 50 megawatts of dedicated AI compute capacity to support Cohere's next-generation foundation models. The depl…
Anthropic appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a governance body designed to oversee AI risk and societal impact. Bernanke, who led the Fed through the 2008 financial crisis…
AI companies now account for nearly half of all office space that U.S. tech firms are seeking, according to a VTS report. Demand is concentrated in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and New York, with San Francisco's SoMa c…
China is considering restricting exports of its most advanced AI models, a move that reflects a historical pattern where challengers use openness to gain market share and then shift to protectionism once they become lead…
Senior AI and tech leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg gathered at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference from July 7-11, 2026, in Sun Valley, Idaho, for off-record netw…
Jefferies analyst Blayne Curtis reiterated a Buy rating and $550 price target on Broadcom, citing an improving outlook for its AI chip business. The company has a long-term agreement with Google through 2031 and a report…
AI-focused tech firms are increasing office space searches nationwide, with tours up 85% year-over-year through May, according to VTS. While Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and New York lead, demand is expected to spread …
VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory firm, argues that organizations should focus on improving workflows and decision-making before adopting AI tools, rather than starting with technology selection. Founder Ran Aroussi em…
Elon Musk announced on July 9 that xAI's Grok will receive a 1M+ token context window, matching Anthropic's Claude Opus and intensifying the AI arms race. The upgrade enables processing of roughly 750,000 words in a sing…
Nvidia's stock price has fallen 15% since May as GPU supply eases and cloud giants launch custom processors, while memory maker Micron has nearly tripled in value due to surging DRAM prices driven by data center demand. …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI raised $4.01 billion through a Hong Kong share placement to fund foundation-model research and development, compute capacity, and expansion, intensifying competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…
Yann LeCun, often called a godfather of AI, left Meta to raise a reported $1bn seed round for his new firm AMI, which is building 'world models' that understand the physical world like a child does, rather than chasing l…
Wildcard, an agentic commerce optimization platform for e-commerce and retail brands, is hiring its first founding engineer. The company, which grew 50% month over month, helps brands manage how their products appear acr…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 API at $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors including Grok 4.5, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The aggressive pricing intensifies the AI price war, putting pressure on pure-play …
Capable, a biotech startup backed by prominent investors, is using AI to develop peptide and nucleotide therapeutics that enhance human capabilities, starting with sleep. The company aims to create drugs that restore cog…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, claiming it surpasses prior AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on some benchmarks, though it still lags behind flagship models. The update comes under new chief AI officer Alexandr…