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Chinese large language model developer DeepSeek is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering later this year or in 2027, according to Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley.
Startup Lyzr.ai used an AI agent to help raise $100 million in its latest funding round, CEO Siva Surendira told Market Domination, explaining how agentic AI aids workflow automation while also noting where artificial in…
Google's AI Overview, a Gemini-generated answer block placed above traditional search results, now appears on close to one in five searches, according to Ahrefs' analysis of roughly 100,000 keywords. The feature, rolled …
Wall Street's biggest banks reported collective profits of $49 billion in Q2, up 39% year over year, driven by an AI boom that fueled record equity trading and underwriting fees. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon said the …
Ollama, a 14-person open-source AI infrastructure company, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The tool, which lets developers run AI models locally o…
Apple has held exploratory discussions with Caltech-born startup PrismML about integrating its AI model compression technology into iPhones, according to a report from The Information. PrismML claims it can shrink a 54 G…
George Sivulka, CEO of AI platform Hebbia, argued that well-managed AI agents can cost $4 to $7,000 per hour, compared to roughly $80 per hour for human engineers, making token management the new competitive moat. Sivulk…
Hinge founder Justin McLeod raised $18 million from Match Group, FirstMark Capital, and Pace Capital for his new AI dating service, Overtone, which uses voice and audio to provide highly curated introductions rather than…
A solo developer has built FN2, an open-source AI platform that delivers autonomous agents for stock trading, similar to Hermes and OpenClaw but tailored for finance. The platform, written in Go and Python on colocated b…
Silicon Valley is buzzing with concern that major AI labs like OpenAI and Google may be using proprietary models to lock down the technology playing field, stifling competition from smaller companies. OpenAI reportedly s…
Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million investment round backed by USV and other major investors to fuel AI innovation, though questions remain about whether the capital is sufficient given the compute-heavy demands of t…
Augmodo Inc., a Seattle-based spatial AI startup, has raised $21 million in a funding round led by TQ Ventures, boosting its valuation to $350 million. The company plans to expand its AI-powered spatial solutions beyond …
IBM shares crashed 25% on July 14 after CEO Arvind Krishna warned the company failed to adapt to a rapid shift in customer spending from software to AI hardware, forecasting second-quarter revenue of just $17.2 billion—i…
IBM shares plunged 25% on Tuesday, erasing nearly $70 billion in market value, after CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company had "faltered" on artificial intelligence and warned that clients shifted spending toward serve…
C.H. Robinson Worldwide CEO Dave Bozeman says the logistics firm's use of AI has driven a 45% uplift in employee productivity since 2022 and double-digit earnings-per-share growth since 2023, despite a 34% revenue drop f…
Ringd, a new AI notification startup, has launched with a promise to revolutionize alert management, but faces a saturated market and early traction of only two points on Hacker News and a single comment. The company's s…
Chamath Palihapitiya, founder of Social Capital and CEO of AI startup 8090, warned on July 14 that corporate 'tokenmaxxing'—maximizing AI token consumption without tracking returns—will lead to earnings per share misses …
IBM is on pace for its worst stock day ever after CEO Arvind Krishna warned of a quarterly performance shortfall due to customers redirecting spending toward AI infrastructure, reviving fears of a 'SaaSpocalypse' where A…
IBM shares fell roughly 25% on Tuesday, erasing nearly $68 billion in market value in what MarketWatch said was on pace to be the company's worst single-day drop ever, worse than its Black Monday fall in 1987. The sellof…
PrismML released Bonsai 27B, claiming it is the first major AI model of its size that can run on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, with a 1-bit version fitting in about 4 GB of memory. PrismML CEO Babak Hassibi told CNBC that App…