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Dax Raad, co-founder of OpenCode, revealed on the Syntax podcast that his team's AI token usage increased 5x after gaining early access to an unreleased AI model, and when access ended, team members mourned its loss. Raa…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion pre-money valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners in discussions to lead a ~$200 million round. The startup plans to use…
Meta Platforms announced on July 1, 2026, a new business unit called Meta Compute to sell surplus GPU and AI processing power to external clients, sending its stock up roughly 9%. The company plans $115 billion to $135 b…
IdeaPanda, a business idea engine created by Maya, surfaces ideas backed by real complaints from Reddit, app reviews, and forums, scoring each idea from 0 to 100 based on demand signals. The product offers lifetime acces…
AI chip infrastructure spending is projected to reach $1.6 trillion by 2030, according to a report cited by Crypto Briefing, signaling significant growth opportunities for Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, TSMC, and Micron Technolo…
Equinix CEO Adaire Fox-Martin confirmed that approximately 60% of the company's largest contracts now involve AI-related workloads, as the data center operator invests heavily in AI infrastructure. In October 2024, Equin…
VAST Data and Cloudera announced a strategic partnership to integrate Cloudera's data engineering, analytics, and AI services with VAST's AI Operating System, creating a combined AI factory architecture that aims to elim…
Neko Health, the body-scanning startup founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, raised $700 million from investors including Mark Zuckerberg and will.i.am and plans to open its first U.S. clinic in New York this year. The company…
The Modern Robotics Registry, a new public index launched by TerraFirma, maps the global robotics ecosystem with profiles of 9,902 live roles from 467 job boards across 49 countries, tracking companies building physical …
IBM's mainframe business faltered as customers redirected budgets toward AI infrastructure, leading to a 7% drop in infrastructure revenue and a 25% plunge in IBM's share price. CEO Arvind Krishna acknowledged the shift,…
Refer, an AI recruiting startup founded by Andre Hamra, has raised a previously unannounced $7.5 million seed round, bringing total disclosed funding to about $10 million. The San Francisco-based company charges workers …
Meta Platforms Inc. shares surged 17% in July, making them the third-best performer in the S&P 500 Index, after the company revealed plans for a cloud-computing business and a new paid tier for its AI model Muse Spark 1.…
Opening Bell Media CEO Phil Rosen and StockBrokers.com Director of Investor Research Jessica Inskip debated whether tech stocks are overvalued amid the AI boom, discussing the potential for the S&P 500 to reach 8,000 and…
Refer, a San Francisco startup that uses an AI agent to match job seekers with employers, has raised a total of $10 million in seed funding, including a previously unannounced $7.5 million round. The platform charges can…
Samsung Electronics is reportedly in consideration to handle back-end design work for Google's next-generation 2nm Tensor Processing Unit, a potential deal that would reshape the semiconductor supply chain for AI infrast…
Delaware proposes the Artificial Intelligence Company (AIC), a legal entity run by an AI agent that can sign contracts, hold property, and face lawsuits, as outlined by Secretary of State Charuni Patibanda-Sanchez and No…
OpenAI’s first consumer device designed with Jony Ive is a screen-free smart speaker that behaves like a humanlike companion, according to people familiar with the project who spoke to Bloomberg. The speaker, which OpenA…
Nvidia trades at roughly 28x forward earnings with analysts suggesting 30% upside to intrinsic value near $323 per share, while Cerebras Systems reported $510 million in 2025 revenue and a $24.6 billion backlog but faces…
Apple alleged in a lawsuit that OpenAI never responded to its concerns about trade secret theft, but emails reviewed by NBC News show OpenAI did respond in February 2026. The communications broke down after an outside at…
PrismML has unveiled a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen model that slashes memory requirements by up to 15 times, a technical leap that could accelerate Apple's AI ambitions by enabling more sophisticated AI function…