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Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlobe. The company aims…
Chinese generative AI startup MiniMax Group plans to raise up to $2 billion through new share issuances and convertible bond sales, just months after its Hong Kong IPO raised $619 million. The capital-intensive AI sector…
Mercor, an AI recruiting and training-data unicorn valued at $10 billion, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulated office software for AI agents, on July 9. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody had personally invested in Deep…
Jeff Morgan and Michael Chiang's Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million. The open-source AI developer tool, used by over 8.9 million developers monthly and pres…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a frontier AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, achieving top-tier performance at roughly 90% lower cost per task than leading competitors. The mode…
TCS reported a 4.6% rise in net profit to ₹13,349 crore for the April-June quarter, with revenue of ₹72,275 crore and an annualized AI revenue of $2.6 billion. The company declared an interim dividend of ₹12 per share an…
Meta plans to begin production of its in-house MTIA AI chip in September 2025, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs and double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, according to a Reuters report…
Business veteran Bruce Rockowitz sees artificial intelligence as a strategic growth engine for his wellness, dining, and media businesses, including The Pure Group, food-and-beverage operators, and magazine publishers. H…
TeraWulf, a former Bitcoin mining company, signed a 20-year lease with AI lab Anthropic for a data center campus in Kentucky, projected to generate $19 billion in revenue. The deal, requiring $3.2-4 billion in capital ex…
Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are poised to launch IPOs that could collectively surpass the total exit value of every US venture-backed IPO since 2000, according to PitchBook. SpaceX alone targets a $75 billion raise at …
TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion in debt to build the Justified Data Campus in Kentucky, a massive AI computing hub with potential capacity exceeding 1 GW. The company signed a 20-year lease with Anthro…
AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal rejected a reported Meta offer exceeding $1 million per year to cofound Periodic Labs, a startup backed by NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, according to multiple Indian news outlets. Agarwal publicly …
SpaceXAI released a new AI model, while major tech companies reshape the benchmark conversation amid a decline in AI confidence. London sees increased AI investment, with Mistral opening an office and Rubrik investing $5…
Mercor, an AI data startup founded by three college dropouts, reached $2 billion in annualized revenue in June 2025, doubling from $1 billion four months earlier. The company pays doctors, lawyers, and engineers to train…
Ollama raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million, as the open-model runner now serves nearly 9 million monthly developers. The company plans to use the funds…
Lithuanian data infrastructure firm Oxylabs raised $130 million from Warburg Pincus at a $3.6 billion valuation, its first outside investment since 2015. The company, which provides web data gathering tools for AI agents…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295-billion-parameter open-weights AI model, at roughly six cents per million input tokens, outperforming GLM-5.1 in blind expert reviews. The model features 21 billion active parameters, 256K con…
A leaked Treasury Department draft report warns that the AI economy risks a dotcom-style bubble, as U.S. AI labs spend hundreds of billions on large language models while investors grow skeptical. Meanwhile, enterprises …
Mark Zuckerberg returned to X after three years to announce Meta's new coding AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, as the company pivots heavily toward artificial intelligence with projected expenditures of $125 billion to $145 bil…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back on 'inaccuracies' about a proposed deal to give the US government a 5% equity stake worth an estimated $42.6 billion, clarifying terms during a CNBC appearance. The proposal, first pitch…