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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…
Hong Kong's stock market faces potential sell-off pressure as lock-up periods end for AI firms Zhipu AI and MiniMax, releasing shares worth US$11.5 billion. Analysts warn of dual selling pressure from profit-taking and l…
A Chinese AI startup, Zhipu (Z.ai), has emerged as a major competitor to Silicon Valley with its open-source GLM 5.2 model, challenging the U.S. AI establishment. The release coincided with Washington's regulatory moves …
HIVE, a London-based physical AI startup, raised $15 million in pre-Series A funding to build an intelligence layer for industrial machines. The company retrofits vehicles with a silicon brain that enables autonomous ope…
Pieter Levels, a solo founder running Nomad List, Remote OK, Photo AI, and other products, reached $420,000/month in revenue by 2024 without any co-founders or employees. A developer analyzed all 751 of Levels' blog post…
Gyre Energy, an AI-powered industrial cooling startup founded by Oxford MBAs, raised over $1.3 million in pre-seed funding led by Speedinvest to deploy its technology in cold-chain warehouses. The company's AI and therma…
Nvidia became the first company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization on October 29, 2025, driven by its early bet on parallel computing through CUDA in 2006. The company's chips, initially used for gaming, became…
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has been rebranded as SpaceXAI, five months after SpaceX acquired the firm. The new branding and logo were announced on X, with the merged entity now focusing on building o…
Historical investment patterns suggest the current AI boom may follow past technology cycles, with early overinvestment and eventual consolidation. Lessons from the dot-com era indicate that while transformative technolo…
Andrew McCalip, a founding engineer at Varda Space Industries, launched Kickbacks, a platform that inserts ads into AI agent prompts and shares 50% of revenue with users. The service, which works with Anthropic's Claude …
Asian markets fell sharply on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi dropping 7.6%, despite a rebound in AI stocks that lifted the S&P 500 to near a record. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix slumped 8.7% even after Samsung rep…
Asian markets fell sharply on July 7, 2026, with South Korea's Kospi dropping 7.6% and shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix each slumping 8.7%, despite Samsung reporting a 19-fold surge in operating income to 89.4 …
Insurance Journal's Risky Future series will host a free AI Tools for Underwriting Demo Day on Wednesday, July 8 at 1pm ET, featuring six vendors including ABBYY, Nearmap, and ZestyAI. The event targets insurance profess…
Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and Z.ai are gaining traction with U.S. firms, with token share on OpenRouter exceeding 30% weekly since Feb. 8 and peaking at 46%, driven by rising costs at U.S. labs and narrowing capabi…
Samsung Electronics reported a 19-fold jump in Q2 operating profit to 89.4 trillion won, driven by surging demand for AI memory chips, but shares fell nearly 8% as investors worry the AI boom may be cooling. The record p…
Samsung reported a preliminary operating profit of about $58 billion for its latest quarter, beating forecasts by 6%, but its stock fell over 9% as investors expected even stronger results from the AI chip supplier. Reve…
TeraWulf Inc. has signed a 20-year lease with Anthropic at its Justified Data campus in Kentucky, expected to generate $19 billion in revenue. The company also sold its majority stake in the Abernathy Joint Venture to Fl…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei revealed in a Bloomberg interview that he has only one direct report, chief of staff Avital Balwit, while his sister and co-founder Daniela Amodei oversees all other executives as president. Th…