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UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale secured a $900 million revolving credit facility to expand its global data-center footprint, backed by Nvidia. The company, which spun out of Bitcoin miner Arkon Energy, has rais…
Kinnevik reported a 6% increase in portfolio value in Q2, stabilizing after a 22% decline in Q1, as new CEO Helena Saxon restructures the investment company. The company has a net cash position of 7.4 billion SEK, with a…
Samsung Electronics reported a record operating profit of $58 billion for the second quarter of 2026, nearly 20 times higher than the same period last year, driven by surging demand for memory chips used in AI data cente…
Broadcom and Apple extended their chip supply partnership through 2031, covering custom silicon for multiple Apple device generations. The deal secures roughly 20% of Broadcom's annual revenue and signals a broader indus…
Meta Platforms announced plans to spend between $115 billion and $145 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, nearly double its 2025 spending, triggering over $1 trillion in market cap losses across AI stocks. Nvidia and P…
Galaxy Corporation announced that its Galaxy Robot Park in Seoul sold out July pre-launch weekend shows after 8,000 reservations, ahead of the September official opening. The venue, billed as the world's first physical A…
TeraWulf announced a 20-year lease with Anthropic for 401 megawatts of AI data center capacity in Kentucky, potentially generating $19 billion in revenue. The deal highlights bitcoin miners' pivot to AI infrastructure as…
Some top Silicon Valley investors are skeptical of the humanoid robot boom, arguing that robots designed to mimic the human form are inefficient and impractical. Investors like Bain Capital Ventures' Ajay Agarwal and Ecl…
NYSE president Lynn Martin expressed optimism about the stock market and economy, citing strength across all sectors and a surge in IPO activity as companies like Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX prepare to go public.
Samsung Electronics reported an 18-fold surge in second-quarter operating profit to 89.4 trillion won ($58.4 billion), driven by rising memory chip prices amid AI demand, but a subsequent share slump revealed investor co…
Zinc Media Group launched Cicada, an AI-focused production label, on July 7, 2026, after generating several million pounds of AI-related revenue in 2025. The label centralizes Zinc's AI activity across commercials, brand…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan claims his company ships 37,000 lines of AI-generated code per day, but a developer investigation reveals the claim may be exaggerated or misleading, raising questions about the true impact of …
Syntiant filed a Form S-1 on July 6, 2026 for a proposed Nasdaq IPO under ticker SYTN, aiming to bring edge-AI chips to the public market. The company reported $64.5 million in revenue and a $20.9 million net loss for th…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other AI providers are offering startup compute and model credits in July 2026 to win early company workloads before vendor choices harden, with packages reaching millions of dollars. The W…
Chinese companies plan to allocate 46% of their AI chip budgets to domestic suppliers within a year, up from 30% currently, according to a Bloomberg Intelligence survey. The shift is driven by U.S. export restrictions an…
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley released divergent revenue forecasts for SpaceX after its IPO quiet period ended, with a $1 trillion valuation gap driven by differing assumptions about AI monetization. Goldman projects …
Synopsys is discontinuing its chip fab manufacturing process control software, affecting clients including Samsung, SK Hynix, and Kioxia, as it pivots to AI-driven electronic design automation tools. The company raised i…
A founder who skipped college to start a company at 18 shares lessons from building six companies, emphasizing adaptability, employee autonomy, engagement, and learning culture as keys to success in an AI-driven world.
Salesforce has committed billions to expanding its agentic AI capabilities across Europe, with a $1 billion investment in Italy and a $2 billion commitment in France, as it races to become the dominant force in AI-powere…
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch said companies are moving away from relying on a single AI lab partner, instead adopting a multi-model approach using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and Chinese models like DeepSeek and GLM-5.2. He…