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South Korean AI startup ModigenceVision won the Korea-Germany Connect: AI Startup Pitching Challenge 2026 on Wednesday, earning the right to present its 3D vision systems for robotics and industrial automation before abo…
BGF Retail, operator of the CU convenience store chain, signed a memorandum of understanding with AI startup Intellicia to integrate AI digital twin and synthetic consumer technology into retail planning. The partnership…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has reportedly reached an annualized revenue run rate between $400 million and $500 million, doubling its 2025 estimates of $200 million to $220 million. The surge comes months after the company r…
WhiteFiber disclosed initial R&D results for Project Redwood, a distributed GPU supercluster architecture that linked two NVIDIA H200 clusters 83 km apart into one logical supercluster delivering 111.2 Tbps throughput wi…
Vorfluxai, founded by a former co-founder and CTO of Rippling ($10B) who was also the #1 coder in India, launches as an autopilot for software engineering, aiming to replace the copilot model where developers must remain…
Sogni launched Sogni Unlimited, a $20/month flat-rate subscription for unlimited image and video generation on its decentralized GPU network, offering fair-use access to open-source models without per-render credits. The…
Chai Discovery raised $400 million in a Series C round, tripling its valuation to $3.8 billion in seven months, after securing a deal with Novartis. The OpenAI-backed AI drug discovery company's rapid growth underscores …
Enterprise Singapore and UOB launched the F&B AI and Digital Integration Programme on Jul 15 to help food-and-beverage businesses adopt artificial intelligence, offering advisory support from UOB SME Banking and up to 50…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has surged to $36 billion, more than double his previous estimate of $16.7 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The increase makes Liang the wealthiest founde…
SK Hynix's American depositary receipts surged roughly 13% on their Nasdaq debut on July 10, 2026, raising $26.5 billion in the second-largest US share sale in history. The South Korean chipmaker, which controls about 60…
Canva cofounder Cameron Adams said the company does not mandate a specific AI tool for employees, instead giving them budgets to experiment with tools like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini. Adams argued that forcing a tool dis…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, is preparing for a mainland IPO and may file its listing application as soon as this year, targeting a 2027 debut, according to Bloomberg. The company is in talks with acc…
The WebArena leaderboard shows that even the best-performing AI agents have a success rate of only 45.7% on real-world tasks, highlighting significant challenges in reliability, cost, and user trust. An OpenAI employee n…
Dave Clark, former Amazon worldwide operations chief, has raised $150 million for his AI startup Auger, which uses AI agents to automate supply chain execution decisions. The Bellevue, Washington company closed a $50 mil…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in advanced talks to launch an AI drug discovery startup at a $2 billion valuation, with Lightspeed Venture Partners reportedly leading a $200 million round, according to TechCrunch. Wang,…
AI cloud company CoreWeave is exploring Wall Street hedging strategies to manage price risk for memory chips, according to a Reuters report. The move aims to stabilize costs amid volatile demand for chips used in AI infr…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is in talks to raise approximately $1.5 billion at a pre-money valuation of 480 billion yuan (~$71 billion), a 37% increase from its May round, and has begun IPO preparations targeting a 2027 …
Apple is in exploratory talks to acquire PrismML, a Caltech spinout that uses ultra-low-bit compression to shrink large AI models by up to 14x, enabling them to run natively on iPhones. PrismML raised $16.25 million in s…
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is leaving the ChatGPT maker to launch an AI drug discovery startup valued at $2 billion, with plans to raise about $200 million from Lightspeed, according to sources. The startup aims to dev…
CoreWeave signed long-term cloud contracts with Microsoft and OpenAI through 2030 without hedging against memory chip prices, and DRAM prices have since tripled, squeezing margins to roughly 1% on nearly $8 billion in an…