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Anthropic has turned its most powerful AI model, Claude Opus, into a major revenue generator, with the system now producing hundreds of millions of dollars in annualized revenue for the company. The AI safety-focused sta…
Andon Labs, a San Francisco-based company, has placed an AI system named Luna in charge of all operations at Andon Market, a physical retail store on Union Street that opened in April. Luna, which is not a human, handles…
Former Microsoft Asia Pacific president Ahmed Mazhari launched agentic AI startup kAIgentic with a $10 million strategic investment from SMBC Group, which will also serve as the company's first customer. The Singapore-he…
Anthropic, SpaceX-xAI, and OpenAI are racing toward public listings this year, with Anthropic filing a confidential S-1 and SpaceX targeting a valuation between $1.25 trillion and $1.75 trillion after merging with xAI. T…
Offroad emerged from stealth on June 4, 2026 with $7 million in seed funding led by Ibex Investors and Skywell Capital Partners to automate identity security using AI agents. The New York and Tel Aviv-based startup's age…
NITI Aayog Principal Economic Advisor Anna Roy urged the development of AI solutions to address real-world challenges in agriculture, healthcare, and education, stating that enterprises solving those problems "will get a…
GateTest launched a new CI tool that runs 110 quality assurance checks in a single scan and automatically generates a pull request with fixes within 60 seconds. The tool uses Claude Sonnet 4 to identify bugs, security is…
Toronto Tech Week offered developers opportunities to learn about cutting-edge technologies like quantum computing and agentic protocols, network with industry peers, and explore public-sector AI adoption. One developer …
Perk, the corporate travel and spend management company formerly known as TravelPerk, secured a $300 million private credit facility led by Neuberger Specialty Finance to fund product development, AI initiatives, and a p…
Companies are increasingly hiring go-to-market (GTM) engineers to build custom internal tools that outperform off-the-shelf SaaS products, particularly in sales. Nicolas Sharp, co-founder of Attio, framed this trend thro…
Spacecoin signed a $100 million exclusive partnership with Vietnam's DETI Technology to deploy decentralized satellite internet, blockchain, and Edge AI solutions in the country. The three-year agreement, announced Thurs…
AccessOwl (YC S22), a profitable Y Combinator-backed startup that replaces Okta and ticketing systems for SaaS management, is hiring a Senior AI TypeScript Engineer to build browser automations and add 300 new integratio…
Bitcoin fell to a four-month low of $61,311 before recovering to roughly $62,580, driven by geopolitical tensions, ETF outflows, and MicroStrategy’s first Bitcoin sale in years. The decline triggered broad losses in cryp…
Perplexity unveiled a hybrid inference platform at COMPUTEX 2026 that dynamically routes AI workloads between user PCs and cloud servers in real time, with CEO Aravind Srinivas describing the system as an "air-traffic co…
The Next Web reported that artificial intelligence is entering the late stage of its hype cycle, with market expectations beginning to outpace delivered returns. Companies built mainly on narrative rather than durable va…
Meesho's proprietary AI discovery engine PRISM now powers over 75% of orders on the platform, according to a press release filed with the National Stock Exchange on May 6, 2026. The company reported net merchandise value…
Frore Systems unveiled the LiquidJet Nexus, a monolithic water block designed to cool two Blackwell GPUs and a Grace CPU, at an event in Taipei. Tests conducted by a major ODM showed the coldplate reduced GPU temperature…
Canadian AI company Cohere has denied any commercial relationship with Palantir Technologies, stating in an emailed statement that "Palantir is not a customer or partner." The denial follows social-media and press specul…
NobodyWho has released the world's first standalone Apple Watch app that runs AI models locally and offline without requiring an iOS companion app. The app supports small language models like Prism ML's LFM2.5 and Liquid…
On May 28, 2026, Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation, followed by a confidential draft S-1 submission to the SEC on June 1. The company disclosed $47 billion in run-rate reve…