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Tencent is leading a consortium of Chinese investors to buy back AI agent startup Manus from Meta at the original $2 billion valuation, after China's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta to unwind the …
OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT Atlas browser less than a year after launch, with deprecation targeted for August 9. The company is consolidating Atlas's features into a new desktop app called ChatGPT Work, which inc…
Simular CEO Ang Li said Korea's hardware manufacturing strength could give it an edge in the AI agent era, where autonomous computers that act on behalf of users are replacing chatbots. The startup, backed by Samsung NEX…
NVIDIA invested $100 million in a French research team that laid the groundwork for voice AI, seven months after the team's launch, to help them compete in the AI voice assistant market.
Polysense, a Ghent-based startup, raised $10.7 million in seed funding led by Felix Capital to scale its AI quality-control software for food manufacturers. The company's system uses real-time imaging and automated proce…
MiniMax CEO Yan Junjie forgoes his salary until the company achieves artificial general intelligence, as the Chinese AI firm seeks US$2 billion in funding after its stock plunged 80% from its peak. Yan also pledged perso…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 in three sizes—Sol, Terra, and Luna—alongside an updated Codex desktop app and ChatGPT Work, positioning the models as faster and cheaper than competitors while setting new state-of-the-art result…
SK Hynix makes its U.S. trading debut on Friday after a $26.5 billion share sale, testing investor appetite for AI-related stocks amid a recent pullback in semiconductor shares. The South Korean chipmaker, the world's la…
KakaoBank CEO Yun Ho-young joined President Lee Jae Myung's state visit to Mongolia as the only commercial bank CEO in the delegation, promoting the lender's AI-driven digital banking model at a business forum. KakaoBank…
LG CNS has partnered with UK-based PhysicsX to develop next-generation industrial AI models, combining PhysicsX's AI-powered engineering simulation platform with LG CNS' enterprise systems integration and digital twin se…
A developer released ToolDir, a directory listing website template built with Next.js 15, Supabase, and Stripe. The boilerplate enables creators to quickly launch a public directory site that accepts tool submissions, se…
Neuralwatt Cloud will double its standard energy rate from $5/kWh to $10/kWh on July 16, 2026, citing the need to support growing scale and invest in reliability and capacity. The company claims energy-based pricing rema…
Over 41.8 million U.S. solopreneurs in 2026 are using AI to operate with the capacity of a 5-10 person team by automating repetitive tasks like email triage and content drafting, enabling growth without hiring. The trend…
Xero CEO Sukhinder Singh Cassidy introduced a new policy offering underperforming employees a choice between severance or a 30-day performance improvement plan, citing the need to adapt to AI disruption. The move comes a…
A developer argues that React Native is the superior choice for AI product engineering in fintech, citing its integration with existing JavaScript ecosystems, faster iteration cycles, and easier hiring. The post highligh…
Mercor is acquiring Deeptune, a company that builds reinforcement learning environments for AI training, to combine Deeptune's software platform with Mercor's expert network for creating realistic training environments. …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the Sun Valley Conference that AI spend is a major topic, with everyone asking how to reduce costs or increase value. He noted that OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 family, including the cost-efficient …
Ollama raised $65M in Series B funding led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88M, and launched a cloud tier alongside its free open-source local AI tool. The company, used by 8.9 million developers monthly, …
Tencent is leading a deal to unwind Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI agent start-up Manus after Beijing ordered the reversal of the US takeover, with Tencent set to become the largest shareholder in the company.
Stan, a creator-commerce company, built its AI content product Stanley in 14 days and grew it to $3 million in annual recurring revenue, according to founder John Hu. The product, which helps creators generate content fo…