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Groq founder Jonathan Ross revealed that a $20 billion deal with NVIDIA was conceived just three weeks before closing, after NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang converted a GPU purchase order into a platform partnership. Ross, who b…
Benchmark raised its price target on Hut 8 to $165 from $85, nearly doubling its previous estimate, after the Bitcoin miner secured $16.8 billion in contracted lease value across two hyperscale AI data center projects, w…
Chamath Palihapitiya is returning to a day-to-day operating role as CEO of 8090 Labs, the AI coding company he founded in January 2024, after raising a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. The company's prod…
Elon Musk's SpaceX projects a $28.5 trillion total addressable market for AI enterprise applications, nearly 70% of U.S. Q1 2026 nominal GDP of $32 trillion, but evidence suggests the AI bubble is deflating as subsidies …
Anthropic announced Tuesday it is committing $10 million CAD to fund research into beneficial and responsible AI applications through partnerships with Canadian institutions including Amii, Mila, the Vector Institute, CH…
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI startup valued at up to $59 billion, is planning to file for an initial public offering this year, according to sources. The company, founded in July 2023 by Liang Wenfeng, shocked markets…
AI RPG, a free browser-based platform, launches an AI RPG game and AI story generator that creates a unique interactive novel in real time based on user choices, with NPCs that remember past actions and multiple endings.…
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup developing open-weight AI models, signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius, formerly the international arm of Yandex, to access Nvidia's latest chips. …
Oodle.ai has launched LLM Agent Observability, a service that stores all agent traces without sampling at $10 per million traces, using a custom columnar storage engine on S3 and AWS Lambda for sub-second query latency. …
Turbopuffer, a search engine built on object storage like AWS S3, claims to be 10x cheaper than traditional vector databases by pulling data into RAM only when needed, and has reportedly crossed $100M in ARR. Competitors…
IBM shares plunged more than 20% on Tuesday, wiping over $50bn from its market value in the biggest one-day selloff since the 1987 crash, after the tech giant warned customers were diverting spending from software to AI …
Chinese open-weight models accounted for 41% of downloads on Hugging Face this spring, surpassing U.S. models, and the top six most popular models on OpenRouter are all open models from Chinese firms including Tencent, X…
Higgsfield crossed a $500M annualized revenue run rate in June, up from $200M at the end of 2025, and is cash-flow positive, CEO Alex Mashrabov said. The AI video platform, which launched in March 2025, achieved this wit…
AI investment is increasingly concentrated in coding tools, where the most immediate value is being captured, raising questions about which sectors will be disrupted next.
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court, accusing three former Apple employees of stealing trade secrets related to hardware operations for OpenAI's benefit. The complaint alleges that f…
Anthropic launched rupee-denominated pricing for Claude AI subscriptions in India on July 13, 2026, covering all tiers from Pro at ₹2,000/month (annual) to 20x Max at ₹23,999/month, eliminating forex fees for Indian user…
Robot Ventures is leading a $75 million Series B round into Nous Research, an open-source AI agent startup, at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation. The deal comes less than three months after Nous closed a $50 million Se…
The AI sector is seeing growing valuation concerns for Anthropic as competitive pressures mount from major players like NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Google Gemini, despite Anthropic's strong enterprise revenue. Market odds for An…
A Newsweek opinion piece by a valuation professional warns that trillion-dollar AI company valuations are based on guesswork, with models designed for factories and inventory applied to intangible assets that now make up…
StepFun, a Shanghai startup backed by Tencent, unveiled the StepX Neo on July 13, calling it the world's first mass-market agentic smartphone that runs on a custom operating system, Step AOS, and features the Amoo AI age…