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OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Meta slashed AI prices within 24 hours, triggering a race to the bottom on pricing that could reshape the AI industry's economics.
FoundrGeeks launched an AI-powered co-founder matching platform that connects startup builders based on complementary skills, project stage, and availability. The platform uses an AI engine to score matches as Strong, Go…
Willingness to Pay, a pricing consultancy led by Ulrik Lehrskov-Schmidt, has completed over 200 pricing redesigns for clients including Microsoft, SAP, and Intel, helping B2B and AI companies transition from per-seat to …
A startup co-founder is experimenting with AI-generated anime-style videos to document their startup journey, turning real moments like cold outreach and product building into an animated series. The project aims to make…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is developing its own inference chip to reduce reliance on NVIDIA and Huawei, according to Reuters. The move aims to cut API costs and stabilize supply amid export restrictions, with custom AS…
SK Hynix is listing on the Nasdaq in a record $26.5 billion share sale to fund high-bandwidth memory production, betting that AI demand will break the semiconductor industry's historic boom-and-bust cycle. The move aims …
SK Hynix debuted on the Nasdaq with a $26.5 billion share sale, the second-largest in U.S. history, as shares rose 12.8% on the first day. The listing gives U.S. investors direct access to the leading maker of high-bandw…
AI is compressing the entire startup lifecycle, not just speeding up development, according to a new analysis. Founders can now build credible products in weeks, reach the market faster, and receive quicker signals, lead…
The 2026 IPO market is broadening beyond AI mega-deals, with mid-cap and overlooked sectors preparing to test investor appetite in the second half of the year. SpaceX's record-breaking $86 billion IPO dominated the first…
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis scrapped their AI startup OmniAI after a $3.2 million seed round to launch Monumint, a conversational AI agent company for banks and credit unions. The founders pivoted because they believed …
Rasta.AI, a Pune-based startup, uses artificial intelligence to detect and predict road damage by turning vehicles into sensors, aiming to prevent accidents. The company has surveyed over 10,000 kilometers of road and wo…
VAST Data closed its Series F financing at a $30 billion valuation, positioning its cache storage solutions as critical for scalable and cost-effective AI infrastructure in the exabyte era. The company's focus on key-val…
OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic released new AI models in a single week, intensifying the global AI race and sparking a surge in demand for advanced chips. Chinese companies also joined the competition, highlightin…
The RAISE Summit in Paris drew AI enthusiasts and investors, highlighting the financial frenzy around AI projects. The event focused more on capital than technical innovation, raising questions about whether the hype tra…
CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed AI debt collection startup, is hiring its first founding account executive at $300,000-$375,000 OTE to scale beyond founder-led sales after reaching a $2 million annualized run rate. Th…
Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees to switch from Anthropic's Claude to his own company's Grok 4.5, admitting in a memo that Grok is inferior but arguing the cost savings justify the change. Tesla also imposed a $200 week…
GPU architect Raja Koduri's startup Oxmiq raised $35 million on July 1, 2026, to scale its OxCore architecture, a licensable GPU IP block that fuses CPU, GPU, and tensor engines for AI workloads. The Series A, co-led by …
A veteran investor has amassed dominant control over the AI sector through massive investments in startups and projects, raising concerns among industry insiders about stifled competition and homogenized innovation. The …
The race to dominate AI requires billions in investment for research, infrastructure, and talent, with companies like Google and OpenAI spending heavily to avoid irrelevance. Falling behind in AI means losing market shar…
Ornn, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, raised $33 million to build a marketplace for trading AI computing power as a commodity, aiming to bring price stability to the AI industry. Goldman Sachs estimates $7.6 trillion will…