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EdVisorly, a Los Angeles enrollment software company founded by Air Force veteran Manny Smith, raised $13.3 million in a Series A round led by Breachway Capital to expand its AI systems for college admissions offices. Th…
IBM's preliminary Q2 2026 results, released July 14, showed revenue of $17.2 billion (up just 1% year-over-year) and adjusted earnings per share of $2.93, missing the consensus estimate of $3.01, triggering a 25% stock d…
Anthropic's Claude is the primary agent orchestration platform for 40% of 101 enterprises surveyed by VentureBeat, more than double any rival, but 71% of respondents say a quarter or fewer of their deployed 'agents' are …
Two AI chip startups, Groq and Cerebras, achieved massive financial outcomes in the past year—Groq was acquired for $20 billion and Cerebras IPO'd to a $40 billion-plus market cap—but their pre-LLM architectures have sho…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, its first open-weights foundation model, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 41 billion active parameters, available for fine-tuning via Tinker and as downl…
ASML raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to between €43 billion and €45 billion, the second upward revision this year, as AI infrastructure spending drives demand for its extreme ultraviolet lithography machines. …
A PDF titled 'Speculative Growth and the AI "Bubble"' examines whether the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence investments constitutes a speculative bubble. The document analyzes market dynamics and investor behav…
AI investments have become a dominant force in global capital markets, with Anthropic's valuation priced at a high likelihood of hitting $1.25 trillion by December 31, according to MarketWatch. The sector has absorbed si…
PrismML, a Caltech-spinout AI company backed by Khosla Ventures, Cerberus, Google, and Samsung, announced Bonsai 27B on July 14, the first 27.8-billion-parameter AI model that runs locally on mobile devices like the iPho…
Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine-learning company for real-time recommendations and search, to accelerate live-shopping discovery. Shaped founder Tullie Murrell and nearly a dozen engineers and AI researchers will join…
Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model that the company explicitly says is not the strongest available, positioning it as a platform for fine-tuning rather than a benchma…
Apple is hunting for AI chip acquisitions after its own M2 Ultra-based AI servers proved inadequate, forcing it to rely on Nvidia chips inside Google's cloud for the new Gemini-powered Siri. The company has talked to ban…
Inkling, an open-source AI model with 975 billion parameters developed by Thinking Machines, aims to disrupt the AI field by mastering video and audio understanding, challenging established players like OpenAI and Anthro…
Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, launched Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts open-weight model with 41 billion active parameters per task, trained on 45 trillio…
Bora Pharmaceuticals and Insilico Medicine announced a strategic alliance valued at more than $2.5 billion if fully implemented, combining Insilico's Pharma.AI platform for drug discovery with Bora's global manufacturing…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving to launch an AI drug discovery startup in talks to raise about $200 million at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed in discussions to lead the round, though Wang disputed the fi…
Frhog, a proactive growth-tool for solo founders, analyzes a user's website and industry to deliver three actionable growth tactics every Monday, free with no signup required. The tool adapts to business changes, tracks …
OpenAI is entering the consumer hardware market with its first device, an AI-powered smart speaker, according to Yahoo Finance Tech Editor. The product marks the company's push into hardware amid the broader AI race.
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model with 975 billion total parameters and a 1-million-token context window, but the lab admits it is …
Dan Ives left Wedbush Securities on July 1 and launched Yorkville Ives & Co. on July 15, a merchant bank focused on AI dealmaking that combines equity research, strategic advisory, capital raising, and institutional trad…