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Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model, and a commercial API to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI in the AI coding market. The closed-source model, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per mi…
SK Hynix launched a massive US share offering on Nasdaq targeting up to $29.4 billion, one of the largest foreign share sales in history, to fund new chip fabrication facilities and EUV lithography scanners. The South Ko…
AI training data startup Mercor is in early talks to raise new capital at a $20 billion valuation, double its October 2025 valuation, as co-founder Brendan Foody reports annualized revenue run rate has crossed $2 billion…
Meta's AI division, Meta Superintelligence (MSL), has made significant progress in the past year following a rebuild after the Llama 4 failure, with advantages in data, talent, and compute that position it to potentially…
Elon Musk reversed his stance on Anthropic, calling it the clear leader in AI and praising its Mythos and Fable models as unmatched. He also predicted the imminent release of Mythos 2. The endorsement is notable given Mu…
In 2026, reinforcement-learning environments became the most contested resource in AI, with open-source lab Prime Intellect warning that big labs are locking them down and Anthropic reportedly planning to spend over $1 b…
Anthropic's new product Claude Tag, integrated into Slack, can autonomously perform knowledge work tasks such as debugging, code review, and data aggregation, leading the author to declare that AGI—defined as an AI syste…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a Slack-integrated AI agent that can autonomously perform knowledge-worker tasks such as debugging, code review, and project management, marking what some analysts call the first product ca…
Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity in AI application co…
OpenAI merged its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT desktop app and introduced a Work setting, aiming to create a super app for professionals. The company also released its GPT-5.6 model family as it competes with An…
OpenAI and Anthropic have both confidentially filed for IPOs, positioning themselves for historic public offerings. The two AI companies differ in valuation, revenue growth, and corporate strategy, with OpenAI valued hig…
A Redfin analysis estimates that employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, with post-tax IPO equity totaling $198 billion, could theoretically purchase 29% of homes in the San Francisco metro area. OpenAI employees hold about $…
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business to rent out spare computing power, aiming to monetize its over $100 billion AI infrastructure investment. The move would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and G…
Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raised $100 million in a seed round reopened to new investors, including Nvidia. The company plans to use the funds to open a Bay Area office and compete for talent, strengthening its…
Mistral AI CEO Arthur Mensch joined Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels on July 9, 2026, to advocate for European AI sovereignty, warning that Europe has a two-year window to build competitive AI computing capacity b…
Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora called for a 90% drop in AI token prices within three to five years, arguing that current pricing is unsustainable for enterprise adoption. Arora cited rising inference costs and ineff…
Anthropic will charge usage-based fees for its Claude Fable 5 AI model starting July 12, requiring subscribers to pay $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens on top of existing monthly plans. This …
HUMAIN, a PIF-backed company, and AI firm Cohere announced a partnership in which HUMAIN will provide at least 50 megawatts of dedicated AI compute capacity to support Cohere's next-generation foundation models. The depl…
Anthropic appointed former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke to its Long-Term Benefit Trust, a governance body designed to oversee AI risk and societal impact. Bernanke, who led the Fed through the 2008 financial crisis…
AI companies now account for nearly half of all office space that U.S. tech firms are seeking, according to a VTS report. Demand is concentrated in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and New York, with San Francisco's SoMa c…