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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…
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model that activates only 41 billion parameters per task and natively handles text, image, audio, and video wit…
Walden Robotics emerged from stealth with $300 million in funding at a $1.1 billion valuation to build general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve. The startup, spun out of Toyota Research Institute in Jan…
Fountain 0, a film studio, announced Tuesday that it is releasing an AI-generated movie titled "Odysseus: The Fall," directed by Ash Koosha, to capitalize on the buzz around Christopher Nolan's upcoming "The Odyssey" ada…
Logistics companies that built AI solutions for 'corner cases' rather than understanding business fundamentals saw their valuations drop from 'tens of millions' to zero after major AI model releases, according to Freight…
Eric Rempel, Chief Innovation Officer at Redwood, discusses whether AI is a bubble or truly transforming the supply chain, sharing insights on adoption, job impact, and real value in logistics.
Dan Ives, a well-known tech analyst, and Yorkville Advisors, a securities group with ties to the Trump family, have launched an AI-focused bank called Ives Yorkville AI Bank. The venture aims to provide financial service…
Emergent CEO Mukund Jha said during a Business Insider Q&A that AI will make developers more valuable, not replace them, as demand for software and automation rises. Jha said he looks for candidates who are curious probl…
Anthropic, an AI research company, is reportedly planning an initial public offering as early as October, with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan involved, potentially listing before competitors OpenAI and DeepS…
DeepSeek's 75% price cut on its V4-Pro model, reported in May 2026, exposes a deeper problem for AI founders: agentic products consume tokens far faster than model prices drop, according to a VentureBeat analysis publish…
Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open weights model, now available on Design Arena. Inkling ranks #9 on Design Arena's agentic Web Apps leaderboard, making it the highest-ranking US-based open weights model …
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with open weights, native multimodal inputs, and a 1M-token context window. The model ha…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has unveiled Inkling, its first open-weights model, after 18 months of stealth development. The model is designed for customization and targets developer a…
TYL Semi has raised $43 million in seed funding to launch a fabless chiplet business model that de-risks AI infrastructure builders' large chiplet-based designs by handling surrounding chiplets, packaging, and test. The …
Mira Murati's AI start-up Thinking Machines has released its debut AI model, drawing inspiration from Chinese rivals, after raising $2bn last year at a $12bn valuation.
Software is not dead, but it has become much harder to win, according to Scale Venture Partners co-founder Rory O'Driscoll, speaking at SaaStr AI. Hyperscalers are spending roughly $688 billion on AI capex in 2026 agains…
OpenAI is developing a screen-free smart speaker designed as an AI companion, with moving parts to create a sense of aliveness, according to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter. Apple has sued OpenA…
Morgan Stanley analysts led by Joseph Moore defended Broadcom's role in Google's TPU supply chain, projecting TPU shipments will reach 3.2 million units in 2026 and 5 million in 2027, with the partnership extended throug…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, released its first AI model, Inkling, an open-weight model designed for versatile and efficient processing across media while balancing cost and perf…
Saturn Cloud founder Sebastian Metti announced a partnership on July 15 with YC-backed Lilac, adding Lilac's idle GPU network as a capacity provider for Saturn's token factory platform. The deal lets Saturn Cloud custome…