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More than 29% of executives from a KPMG survey of 2,000 senior executives across over 20 countries admitted struggling to grasp the escalating costs of AI deployment, with nearly half re-evaluating their AI strategies as…
Star tech investor Gavin Baker, managing partner of Atreides Management, said Michael Burry's bearish Substack commentary on the AI boom is a 'godsend' because it provides credible warnings that help prevent a speculativ…
PixVerse's R1 real-time world model aims to make AI video behave like a live, steerable environment rather than a rendered file, targeting gaming, livestreaming, and entertainment. The company, which joined the ranks of …
Nvidia, Micron, Broadcom, and Applied Materials are expected to generate a record $430 billion in combined free cash flow over the next 12 months, more than triple the amount two years ago, driven by unprecedented demand…
Microsoft VP of Products for Core AI Marco Casalaina said the company is moving beyond the chatbot era as over 80,000 enterprises now build on Microsoft Foundry, with Microsoft 365 Copilot serving more than 20 million us…
The U.S. IPO market is on track for a record-breaking year in 2026, led by SpaceX's $75 billion debut, the largest in history, with traditional IPOs raising $114.2 billion across 65 deals in the first half of the year. A…
Goldman Sachs' 1-Delta Desk warns of a shift in AI market perception from infrastructure to monetization, as global AI spending is projected to exceed $2 trillion by 2026. The desk notes that open-source AI models are ch…
Richard Sutton has broken away from Keen Technologies to co-found Oak Lab with Khurram Javed, pursuing a different path toward understanding intelligence through reinforcement learning and fundamentally new ideas beyond …
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, reporting $1.15 billion in annual bookings and an inference engine that hits 500 tokens per second on DeepSeek-V3.1. The company claims companies …
SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin advises companies to deploy AI agents on B-tier leads rather than hot inbound leads, arguing that agents generate revenue from ignored prospects. Lemkin says his own agent on B leads produces $500…
Intel is spending €5 billion ($5.7 billion) to retool its Leixlip campus in County Kildare, Ireland, for AI chip production, upgrading the site to manufacture Xeon 6 and next-generation Xeon processors on its Intel 3 pro…
Chinese semiconductor start-up Dongfang Suanxin (Shanghai Oriental Computing Technology) has unveiled an aggressive AI chip road map to challenge Nvidia, announcing its flagship DF1000 14-nanometre AI processor deliverin…
SelfEidolon launched SelfEidolon, an alpha experiment in self-evolving artificial lifeforms descended from users, limited to the first 1,000 users with only 10 invite codes publicly released via Discord.
AI's real revolution is slashing the costs of innovation, not replacing humans, according to an analysis of economic trends. By making cloud-based AI services pay-as-you-go, the barrier to entry for startups and smaller …
Skeptral, a new startup validation tool, uses rival LLMs to judge startup ideas and produce a 0 to 100 viability score with a Scale/Pivot/Kill verdict, backed by sourced evidence from the developer web. The tool aims to …
Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield has joined Anthropic's compute team, working on infrastructure for the company's Claude AI models, as the US AI giant intensifies its recruitment of senior tech leaders amid fierce competit…
Helsing, a German defense AI startup, raised $1.8 billion at an $18 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Iconiq, while the U.S. Air Force spends nearly $2 billion re…
Elon Musk and Sam Altman spent the weekend trading insults on X after Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware trade secrets. Musk called Altman a 'scammer' more than half a dozen times, while Altman turned the …
Munich-based Helsing closed a $1.8 billion Series E at an $18 billion valuation, backed by Goldman Sachs, Dragoneer, CPPIB, and JPMorgan, marking the largest defense-tech funding round in European history. The AI-driven …
A Nigerian startup built a voice-based tool that transcribes clinical notes offline, addressing a doctor-to-patient ratio of 1:9,000—fifteen times the WHO recommendation. The World Bank Group supported a WhatsApp-based m…