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The Deploy for Defense (D4D) Hackathon APAC concluded its inaugural event in Seoul, attracting over 200 participants from academia and defense AI companies including Palantir Technologies, Stealth Mole, and BONE AI. The …
Elon Musk accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of straying from the company's original charitable mission and misusing Apple technology, amid OpenAI's transition to a for-profit structure and a separate Apple lawsuit alleging t…
SK hynix raised $26.5 billion in its US IPO, the largest ever by a foreign company, but analysts are divided on the sustainability of the AI memory boom. The South Korean chipmaker will use the funds to expand production…
The AI market is bifurcating into expensive frontier models and cheap 'good enough' models, with Grok 4.5's aggressive pricing signaling a margin collapse. Hardware suppliers like semiconductor companies and datacenters …
Controlled trials show vibe coding accelerates fresh builds by 26% to 56%, and a six-month-old vibe-coding product sold for an initial $80 million plus earn-outs. Tools like Cursor and Claude Code have reached billion-do…
ByteDance is preparing to launch Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates native 30-second clips in a single pass, with an API release targeted for July 16 after a delay from an earlier July 9 date. The model, whic…
Jimmy Cai, co-founder of Bay AI Circle, is launching AGI Summit SF 2026, a two-day conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco scheduled for July 18-19, targeting 15,000-plus attendees, 200-plus speakers, and …
OpenAI has lost another high-level executive as the company prepares for its IPO, adding to a series of recent leadership departures including Kevin Weil, Bill Peebles, and Srinivas Narayanan. The instability could impac…
SK Hynix surged 13% in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, raising $26.5 billion in the largest US IPO by a foreign company. The South Korean chipmaker, a dominant supplier of high-bandwidth memory for Nvidia's AI accelerators…
Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, following China's order for Meta to divest from the company in April. The deal would restore Chinese ownership of Manus…
Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent startup Manus after Beijing ordered Meta to unwind its roughly $2 billion acquisition of the company. The deal would reset Manus' ownership around a Chine…
The Washington Post reports that individuals involved in the AI industry are poised to become billionaires as part of what is described as one of the largest wealth creation events in history, raising questions about how…
Benchmark partner Peter Fenton predicts open-weight AI will dominate token usage within two years, driven by developer-led adoption and cost pressure. The forecast suggests premium pricing for proprietary models will bec…
Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets by poaching former employees, conducting interviews where candidates brought physical components, and accessing confidential documents to accelerate its consumer har…
OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward public markets, with Anthropic targeting a fall 2026 IPO at a $965 billion valuation and OpenAI planning a 2027 debut at $852 billion, potentially exceeding $1 trillion. The IPOs co…
XAI released Grok 4.5, achieving competitive coding benchmark scores at significantly lower pricing than rivals, positioning it as a cost-effective option for coding-agent routing. The model scored 83.3% on Terminal-Benc…
Sam Altman called Elon Musk 'homeboy' in a public exchange on X, criticizing Musk's proposal for orbital AI data centers as speculative compared to OpenAI's terrestrial Stargate infrastructure project. The feud underscor…
Anthropic and OpenAI are accelerating faster than competitors because they extensively use their own AI products internally, creating a compounding feedback loop that improves both models and business operations. This "d…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against former executive Tang Tan, accusing him of stealing trade secrets for a startup, while OpenAI poached Apple's smart glasses chief Paul Meade in June, alarming Apple with its aggressive r…
Vertiv Holdings and Bloom Energy reported strong quarterly results, with Vertiv's revenue up 30% to $2.65 billion and Bloom's revenue surging 130% to $751 million, as AI infrastructure spending shifts from chips to power…