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SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, claiming it matches Claude Opus 4.8 in capability while using far fewer tokens. Independent testing by Artificial Analysis confirmed Grok 4.5 uses over 60% fewer output tokens per ta…
Drafted released V2 of its AI home-design tool on Friday, adding room placement controls, partial regeneration, and exterior customization. The San Francisco startup aims to solve the problem of AI-generated home plans t…
Cerebras Systems CEO Andrew Feldman revealed a $25 billion backlog of orders, anchored by a $20 billion deal with OpenAI, as the AI chipmaker struggles to meet demand due to supply chain constraints. The company went pub…
Meta stock rose over 5% on Friday, turning positive year to date, after CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to rent AI computing power to third parties and announced a new AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, priced significantly lo…
CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator sold nearly 370,000 shares for $31 million, bringing total insider sales since the March 2025 IPO to over $2.3 billion. The GPU cloud provider reported $2.08 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, up …
OpenAI is considering significant per-token price cuts for its AI services amid competitive pressure from Anthropic and enterprise customer complaints about high costs, complicating its path to a $1 trillion IPO valuatio…
The US Federal Reserve appointed Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, to co-lead a task force examining how artificial intelligence reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy. The task force, part of…
Drafted released a major V2 upgrade to its AI home design tool, featuring a new in-house model that runs 60% faster and achieves 5 times higher plan-adherence accuracy. The San Francisco startup, founded by Nicholas Dona…
RuntimeWire launched a text-message alert channel for AI and startup news, allowing subscribers to receive breaking alerts and daily digests via SMS without an app or email. Users can opt in by texting JOIN to +1 512-437…
Palantir's forward deployed engineering (FDE) methodology, which embeds engineers directly with clients, is setting a standard for AI deployment success. Other companies are racing to adopt similar strategies, but replic…
Tencent is preparing to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's planned acquisition. The move signals Tencent's ambition to enhance its AI capabilities, …
NVIDIA is introducing a revenue-sharing and credit-support model for specialized AI cloud providers, financing GPU deployments to bypass hyperscaler custom silicon and secure distribution for inference workloads. The str…
Elon Musk admitted on X that he was 'clearly wrong' about Anthropic, now calling the AI company 'obviously currently the leader in AI' and praising its Mythos/Fable model. The reversal came amid Anthropic's compute deal …
Tencent is in talks to acquire a majority stake in AI agent startup Manus at a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta's earlier acquisition attempt. The deal would support Tencent's plans to integrate AI agents…
OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo is stepping down from her full-time role due to a worsening neuroimmune condition, just as the company prepares for its IPO. Simo, who oversaw product and business operations, will bec…
Meta Platforms Inc. launched Muse Spark 1.1, a proprietary AI model optimized for coding and autonomous agent workflows, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic in the enterprise market. The model, priced aggressively at $1.25 …
Genghis AI, an Irish-built artificial intelligence platform, automates the manual assembly work of tax advisory, enabling complex tax technical work to be completed in minutes rather than days. The platform targets the $…
Tingyu Su, founding designer at healthcare AI startup Youlify, argues that AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic early hire to build cohesive brand and customer experience. Su says that as AI make…
SK Hynix's $27 billion Nasdaq IPO, which was 7x oversubscribed, triggered a risk-on wave that boosted cryptocurrency markets, with altcoins posting double-digit gains. Bitcoin rose 1.8% to near $64,000, while Ethereum cl…
OpenAI, Meta, SpaceXAI, and Anthropic released a flurry of new AI products and models over 72 hours, including OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family and GPT-Live voice model, Meta's Muse Image and Muse Spark 1.1, and SpaceXAI's Grok 4…