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Cognition Labs launched Devin, the 'first AI software engineer,' in March 2024 with a benchmark score of 13.86% on SWE-bench, but independent evaluations later showed it failed 14 out of 20 real tasks. Despite a partly s…
Moss, a Y Combinator-backed startup building a real-time semantic search layer for conversational AI, is hiring a Senior or Staff SDK Engineer. The role involves owning the architecture and evolution of Moss SDKs across …
SK Hynix, the trillion-dollar South Korean chipmaker, debuted on the Nasdaq at $170 a share on Friday, with its American depositary receipts rising nearly 20% to $18.61, signaling strong investor appetite for AI-related …
Stripe, Google, Canva, Cloudflare, and Higgsfield shared go-to-market strategies at SaaStr AI 2026, revealing common patterns such as building and selling in parallel, centralizing AI intelligence, treating agents as rea…
Kraken is preparing to relaunch its mobile app with integrated AI tools for market monitoring, portfolio management, and personalized investment recommendations. The crypto exchange is expanding its services amid regulat…
Anthropic is leasing a 16-story office building in Manhattan and plans to double its New York workforce to over 1,000 employees by year-end, while Airbnb purchased a six-story building in Gramercy for $81.5 million to ho…
Apple accused former employees of sharing confidential information with OpenAI to support the AI company's device development efforts. The accusation adds strain to an already tense partnership between the two tech giant…
ZML released LLMD, a free inference server for open large language models that runs across Nvidia CUDA, AMD ROCm, Google TPU, Intel oneAPI and Apple Metal, aiming to decouple AI workloads from proprietary hardware. The J…
OpenAI Product and Business Chief Fidji Simo stepped down from her role due to ongoing medical issues, Yahoo Finance reported. The departure comes as the company prepares for an anticipated initial public offering.
Anthropic launched ten specialized AI agents for finance professionals at an invite-only event in New York on May 5, 2026, with JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon in attendance. The agents automate tasks like reading quarterly rep…
Altera, the world's largest pure-play FPGA provider, returned to growth with roughly 20% annual revenue growth and more than doubled operating income, driven by demand for its programmable chips in AI, robotics, and edge…
AI² Robotics raised $735 million at a $2.8 billion valuation for its wheeled humanoid robots, positioning the Shenzhen-based company among leaders in China's physical AI sector. The funding, backed by state funds, corpor…
Meta is transitioning from an ad-driven giant to a vertically integrated AI hyperscaler with its custom 'Iris' AI chip scheduled for production in September 2026 and the launch of 'Meta Compute,' a new cloud unit selling…
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue argues that open source AI is more important than ever as companies shift from costly frontier APIs to open models. He warns against a future where a handful of big companies control AI, an…
A developer building a social platform called spritex-social accidentally pivoted to an AI startup after creating a support chatbot that grew beyond its original purpose. The chatbot, initially powered by Google's Gemini…
American AI companies are repeating the mistakes of the 1983 video game crash by rushing low-quality AI products to market, eroding consumer trust. This creates an opportunity for ambitious startups to build high-quality…
Dubai-based physical AI startup Ahoy is relocating its R&D hub to Montréal, planning to hire 200 people for research, engineering, and go-to-market roles. The company, which develops AI infrastructure for physical-world …
Cursor, the AI-powered code editor company, is developing a general-purpose AI agent called Sand to compete with Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's ChatGPT in workplace productivity. The tool, currently in internal testing …
Galaxy Digital completed Phase I of its Helios data center campus in West Texas, delivering 133 megawatts to CoreWeave under a 15-year lease. CEO Mike Novogratz pivoted the site from a distressed bitcoin mine to an AI po…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor IDE, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal on June 16, 2026. The acquisition raises concerns about Cursor's model neutrality, as SpaceX's xAI division may …