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PrismML has compressed a 27-billion-parameter AI model to under 4 GB, enabling it to run on an iPhone while retaining 90 percent of the original model's performance in company benchmarks, with math and coding tasks barel…
Orderful CEO Erik Kiser says the company's AI-powered, self-service platform cuts electronic data interchange (EDI) onboarding from a year to weeks, with a goal of days or minutes. The platform, backed by a $35 million i…
Kilo Code, an agentic engineering platform that grew from zero to an open-source community of 3 million developers in 16 months, has been acquired by Anaconda. The acquisition aims to cover the full AI-native development…
Chai Discovery raised $400 million in a Series C round led by Index Ventures, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in seven months as the AI drug discovery startup's generative models are deployed at Eli Lilly, Pfizer,…
Emergent, an AI-powered coding platform founded in June 2025, has raised $130 million in Series C funding at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Creaegis with participation from Claypond Capital, Sentinel Global,…
Only 5% of AI prototypes make it to production, with 95% falling into the validation abyss, according to data from MLQ.ai. Google engineers at YouTube solved this by building a prototyping stack that decouples rapid expe…
Moki, an AI Slack bot, helps users evaluate ideas by scoring them against live Google search demand and six weighted factors, surfacing the binding constraint and the cheapest experiment to test the biggest unknown. The …
PrismML, a Caltech spinout, compressed Alibaba's Qwen3.6-27B AI model from 54 gigabytes to 3.9 gigabytes using 1-bit and ternary quantization, enabling it to run natively on an iPhone 17 Pro at 11 tokens per second while…
OpenAI is planning a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a humanlike 'AI companion,' according to Bloomberg, but faces a lawsuit from Apple Inc. accusing it of poaching talent and stealing trade secrets that …
Anthropic is projected to reach a $1.25 trillion valuation by the end of 2026, according to prediction market pricing, amid a broader AI sector boom that has seen OpenAI's valuation quintuple since late 2024. The AI sect…
Anthropic launched Ode, a standalone AI enterprise services firm backed by approximately $1.5 billion in capital from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management, and Sequoia…
Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, launched compute forward curves on July 14, allowing traders to bet on future GPU rental prices for Nvidia's B200, H200, and A100 chips. The contracts enable AI companies to he…
Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude chatbot, plans to conduct investor meetings for its initial public offering (IPO) in the coming weeks, following a confidential S-1 filing with the SEC on June 1, 2026. The com…
Pakistan will host the Indus RAS Expo 2026 on July 22-23 at the Pak-China Friendship Centre in Islamabad, organized by Ignite - National Technology Fund under the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication, t…
Anthropic PBC is seeking to meet with investors ahead of a potential mega-IPO, with banks scheduling meetings in the coming weeks for the Claude chatbot maker, which is considering an IPO as soon as October. The company,…
Apple has been in talks with bankers and semiconductor startups about potential acquisitions to strengthen its AI server chip capabilities, according to The Information. The company's next-generation server chip, code-na…
Apple is reportedly looking to acquire AI chip companies to reduce its dependence on Nvidia for demanding AI workloads, according to The Information. The company currently relies on Nvidia hardware within Google Cloud fo…
Ode, a joint venture backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, is betting that a handful of forward-deployed engineers can replace an army of consultants to help enterprises deploy AI. The v…
Anthropic, in partnership with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, has launched a new AI enterprise services firm with a $1.5 billion investment. The unnamed entity aims to integrate Anthropic's AI technol…
Reflection AI signed an AI compute deal worth more than $1bn with Amsterdam-based cloud provider Nebius, securing access to Nvidia's newest GB300 chips through 2029. The agreement marks Reflection's second major capacity…