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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15th, its first trained-from-scratch foundation model, making the full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license for developers to fine-tune and deploy. Th…
Finland has cleared Bliq.ai to operate its Bliq Driverless vehicles on public roads, effective immediately, making it the second EU country to approve the startup after Estonia in May. The rollout starts in Helsinki with…
Mukund Jha, CEO of vibe-coding startup Emergent, said in a Business Insider Q&A that despite AI redefining software engineering, he still values traditional engineering degrees when hiring. The company has experienced ex…
Murati's Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weights 975B parameter mixture-of-experts LLM with 41B active parameters, supporting text, image, and audio input with a 1M-token context window. The model is availabl…
Datadog, an AI observability platform, is nearing a buy point as institutional investors show increasing appetite for its technology. The company's stock is approaching a key price level, driven by demand for monitoring …
Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives including Mira Murati, has released its first open-weight model, Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter model trained on audio, video, and text. The comp…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first open-weight AI model, Inkling, on Wednesday. The 975-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model, which uses about 41 bill…
AI startup Thinking Machines released Inkling, an open-weight AI model with 975 billion parameters, as a Western alternative to popular Chinese open-source models. The San Francisco-based startup, founded by former OpenA…
Two AI energy innovators received analyst upgrades after a major Wall Street firm admitted it was wrong about their prospects, sending shares higher. The upgrades reflect growing confidence in AI-driven energy solutions.
Cloudera and VAST Data have partnered to build a unified AI factory architecture that combines Cloudera's containerized data services with the VAST AI Operating System, targeting GPU starvation in enterprise AI deploymen…
OpenAI has become one of the largest liabilities in recent economic history, with plans to burn over $852 billion by the end of 2030, according to the Where's Your Ed At newsletter. The AI bubble is driven by cult-like p…
Anthropic may launch an IPO as soon as October, aiming to outpace OpenAI in going public. The AI startup is actively scheduling meetings with investors to capitalize on current market appetite for AI stocks. If successfu…
ASML Holding reported €9.3 billion in Q2 2026 net sales, crushing analyst estimates of €8.8 billion, and raised its full-year guidance for the second time to €43-45 billion, driven by surging demand for AI chip productio…
Anthropic's hiring strategy is scrutinized as a potential bid for legitimacy, with each new hire possibly serving to bolster the company's credibility in the AI industry. The analysis suggests that Anthropic may be prior…
Micron Technology lost $110 billion in market value after its shares dropped 10%, extending a sector-wide selloff that also hit SK Hynix, Samsung Electronics, SanDisk, Western Digital, and Seagate. The decline, which era…
Some American startups are turning to cheaper Chinese AI models as a cost-saving alternative to expensive American AI systems, highlighting a growing price divide in the AI industry.
Livestream shopping app Whatnot acquired Shaped, a machine learning company specializing in real-time recommendation and search systems, to strengthen its discovery and personalization capabilities. The deal aims to solv…
Alternative GPU cloud providers Together AI, Runpod, and Nebius are gaining market share as AWS faces GPU shortages, with Together AI offering H100 clusters at $6.79 per hour on-demand and reportedly seeking a $7.5 billi…
Apple's M2 Ultra chip delivers only 31.6 TOPS in machine learning performance, compared to Nvidia's RTX 4090 at 1,321 TOPS, a gap the company is addressing with a $30 billion Broadcom partnership and a $2 billion acquisi…
Arbital Health launched Arbital Flex on July 15, 2026, a self-serve actuarial AI software for payors and providers to analyze value-based care contracts, claiming it cuts time to insight from months to days. The product …