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CoreWeave, the AI-focused cloud infrastructure company that went public in March 2025, is evaluating financial derivatives such as futures contracts to hedge against declining memory and storage chip prices, protecting i…
Andrej Karpathy released nanochat 2026, an open-source full LLM pipeline in 8,000 lines that he calls a 'ChatGPT for $100', while AgentMemory became the top persistent memory system for AI coding agents with 22,000 GitHu…
Companies are creating in-house AI consultant roles with total compensation between $150,000 and $250,000, a position that barely existed 18 months ago. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, workflow de…
Trainy, a Y Combinator company, migrated from Amazon RDS Postgres to ClickHouse Managed Postgres to reduce costs and make initial page loads up to 3x faster for its open-source experiment tracker Pluto. The migration bro…
Gabriel Amzallag, a former Qonto conversion specialist, launched Web Anatomy (webanatomy.ai) by pre-selling a feature for €99 before building it, validating demand with a single paying customer. The product, an agent-wri…
Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO on 1 June, with Polymarket putting the chance of a 2026 listing at 65%, and investor Gavin Baker estimating on the All-In podcast that Anthropic would trade at $3 trillion if lis…
OpenAI plans to launch its first hardware device, a smart speaker powered by ChatGPT, priced between $200 and $300, with a camera and sensors for environmental awareness, targeting an unveiling in 2026 and market launch …
Hinge founder Justin McLeod has raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital and Pace Capital for Overtone, a voice-first dating startup that uses AI conversation instead of profiles and swiping. McLeod, who st…
Federal acquisition reform and the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul are shifting procurement from labor-based to fixed-price, outcome-focused contracts, structurally advantaging AI-native Outcome Integrators. These firms combi…
OpenAI's first hardware device will be a screenless smart speaker with motorized moving parts and a camera, acting as an AI companion, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, designed by former Apple designer Jony I…
George Hotz, founder of tinygrad and comma.ai, published a July 12th blog post arguing that AI doom rhetoric is being used to justify high valuations for frontier AI labs, while the actual progress of LLMs, coding agents…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a screenless, movable smart speaker designed as a humanlike AI companion that integrates with ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The device, still under d…
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has published a working paper analyzing the financing of the artificial intelligence boom, examining the shift from cash flows to debt markets. The paper finds that AI-related…
TYLsemi, a San Jose startup, raised $43 million to let companies design custom AI chips using pre-built chiplets, cutting development costs and time to market by nearly half. The oversubscribed round was led by Matter Ve…
TYLSemi, a San Jose-based semiconductor startup, raised $43 million in an oversubscribed early-stage round on July 14 to develop a modular chiplet platform for custom AI chips, aiming to cut development time and cost by …
Apple Inc. is in early talks with PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup spun out of Caltech, to use its compression technology that shrinks AI models from 54 GB to under 4 GB, enabling all 27 billion parameters of Al…
OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year, according to a Bloomberg report. The screenless device will use a camera and sensors to understand its environment, feature a rechargeable battery, and offer smart h…
Prime Intellect raised $130 million in a Series A round on July 8, pushing its valuation to $1 billion, to sell enterprises the compute and tooling to build and own their own AI models instead of renting them via APIs fr…
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung warned during the company's Nasdaq debut on July 10 that 2027 will be the worst memory supply year in history, with demand outpacing production past 2030, as the company controls 62% of the wor…
OpenAI plans to enter the consumer hardware market with a portable, screen-free smart speaker designed as a physical extension of ChatGPT, according to a Bloomberg report. The device, developed with former Apple design c…