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China is considering restricting exports of its most advanced AI models, a move that reflects a historical pattern where challengers use openness to gain market share and then shift to protectionism once they become lead…
Senior AI and tech leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Meta's Mark Zuckerberg gathered at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley Conference from July 7-11, 2026, in Sun Valley, Idaho, for off-record netw…
Jefferies analyst Blayne Curtis reiterated a Buy rating and $550 price target on Broadcom, citing an improving outlook for its AI chip business. The company has a long-term agreement with Google through 2031 and a report…
AI-focused tech firms are increasing office space searches nationwide, with tours up 85% year-over-year through May, according to VTS. While Silicon Valley, San Francisco, and New York lead, demand is expected to spread …
VarOps, a systems-level AI advisory firm, argues that organizations should focus on improving workflows and decision-making before adopting AI tools, rather than starting with technology selection. Founder Ran Aroussi em…
Elon Musk announced on July 9 that xAI's Grok will receive a 1M+ token context window, matching Anthropic's Claude Opus and intensifying the AI arms race. The upgrade enables processing of roughly 750,000 words in a sing…
Nvidia's stock price has fallen 15% since May as GPU supply eases and cloud giants launch custom processors, while memory maker Micron has nearly tripled in value due to surging DRAM prices driven by data center demand. …
Chinese AI company Zhipu AI raised $4.01 billion through a Hong Kong share placement to fund foundation-model research and development, compute capacity, and expansion, intensifying competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…
Yann LeCun, often called a godfather of AI, left Meta to raise a reported $1bn seed round for his new firm AMI, which is building 'world models' that understand the physical world like a child does, rather than chasing l…
Wildcard, an agentic commerce optimization platform for e-commerce and retail brands, is hiring its first founding engineer. The company, which grew 50% month over month, helps brands manage how their products appear acr…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 API at $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors including Grok 4.5, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The aggressive pricing intensifies the AI price war, putting pressure on pure-play …
Capable, a biotech startup backed by prominent investors, is using AI to develop peptide and nucleotide therapeutics that enhance human capabilities, starting with sleep. The company aims to create drugs that restore cog…
Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, claiming it surpasses prior AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google on some benchmarks, though it still lags behind flagship models. The update comes under new chief AI officer Alexandr…
Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlobe. The company aims…
Chinese generative AI startup MiniMax Group plans to raise up to $2 billion through new share issuances and convertible bond sales, just months after its Hong Kong IPO raised $619 million. The capital-intensive AI sector…
Mercor, an AI recruiting and training-data unicorn valued at $10 billion, acquired Deeptune, a startup building simulated office software for AI agents, on July 9. Mercor CEO Brendan Foody had personally invested in Deep…
Jeff Morgan and Michael Chiang's Ollama raised a $65 million Series B led by Theory Ventures, bringing total funding to $88 million. The open-source AI developer tool, used by over 8.9 million developers monthly and pres…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a frontier AI model priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, achieving top-tier performance at roughly 90% lower cost per task than leading competitors. The mode…
TCS reported a 4.6% rise in net profit to ₹13,349 crore for the April-June quarter, with revenue of ₹72,275 crore and an annualized AI revenue of $2.6 billion. The company declared an interim dividend of ₹12 per share an…
Meta plans to begin production of its in-house MTIA AI chip in September 2025, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs and double its data center computing capacity to 14 gigawatts by 2027, according to a Reuters report…