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Bernstein reports that clearing the 338 GW pipeline of planned data center projects now takes an estimated 12 years, up from 10 years a month ago, due to grid interconnection delays. Bitcoin miners with existing power co…
Venice.ai raised $65 million in a Series A funding round led by Dragonfly at a $1 billion valuation, marking its first outside investment. The privacy-preserving AI platform serves 3.5 million registered users, processes…
Chinese AI models from Zhipu AI and DeepSeek are gaining developer share in the United States due to lower costs, with OpenRouter data showing Chinese model token consumption above 20% weekly share since February 2026 an…
Glad Labs, operator of the autonomous content pipeline Poindexter, argues that first-party data from sources like Google Search Console is replacing third-party keyword tools as the foundation of content strategy. The co…
Cerebras and Black Forest Labs CEOs discussed open-source AI, AGI, and Martin Scorsese's use of AI tools, highlighting wafer-scale chips and reasoning models as key advances. Cerebras claims to have exceeded Moore's Law …
Gradium, an AI startup spun out of Kyutai, raised a $100 million seed extension backed by Nvidia to accelerate development of real-time speech models and expand into the San Francisco Bay Area. The funding will support A…
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its custom AI chip, codenamed Iris, in September as part of a push to reach 14 gigawatts of computing capacity by 2027. The chip, built with Broadcom and TSMC, is central to Meta's strat…
Anthropic reset Claude Code usage limits for all users on July 10 without explanation, following a week of outages across multiple services. The reset comes three days before a temporary 50% limit boost expires, raising …
Zhipu AI raised $4 billion in a Hong Kong placement, but the new shares represent only a 4.2% increase in total capital and most remain locked up, limiting the impact on free float. The Beijing-based AI company plans to …
Tata Consultancy Services reported flat dollar revenue and margin contraction in the June quarter, with AI revenue growing but remaining a small portion of total earnings. The company announced strategic AI investments i…
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after an extended medical leave, becoming a part-time adviser. Simo, who was considered a potential successor to CEO Sam Altman, led efforts …
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 in three tiers (Luna, Terra, Sol) alongside a new voice model and ChatGPT Work agent, drawing praise for performance gains. However, the departure of board member Fidji Simo has raised questions a…
OpenAI announced that GPT 5.6 will become the 'preferred model' for Microsoft 365 Copilot, aiming to quell speculation of a rift between the companies amid reports that Microsoft was replacing some OpenAI software with i…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of product and business, is stepping down due to a severe exacerbation of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS). She will remain as a part-time advisor. CEO Sam Altman expressed grati…
Velocity, a startup founded by former ironSource and Unity executives Tal Shoham, Amir Shaked, and Nimrod Zuta, has raised $27 million to build an advertising layer for AI chat interfaces. The company applies mobile app …
OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9, 2026, scoring 59 on the Intelligence Index, one point behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 at 60, but at a third of the cost at $1.04 per task versus $2.75. Sol tops the Coding Agent I…
XAI's Grok 4.5 scored 83% on Terminal Bench, outperforming many costlier models in multi-step coding tasks, while Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 excels in complex reasoning and high-stakes professional work. The two models …
XAI released Grok 4.5, a large language model offering near-frontier coding performance at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, roughly half the cost of comparable models. The model is optimized …
Theory Ventures, a venture capital firm founded three years ago on the premise that AI would reshape software, reports that the market has exceeded bullish expectations, with frontier models moving to production, open-so…
OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down, marking the latest leadership shake-up at the artificial intelligence company.