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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…
Kuaishou Technology shares fell over 6% after Tencent Holdings cut its stake from 15.68% to 9.37% by selling 273 million Class B shares, raising about HK$12.56 billion. The divestment followed Tencent leading a US$3 bill…
Cody Churchwell launched FedFinder on June 30, an AI-powered contract intelligence platform designed to help small and midsize government contractors identify federal opportunities before they are publicly solicited on S…
SK Hynix is listing American depositary shares on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY, giving U.S. investors direct access to the dominant HBM chipmaker. The $28.1 billion offering, the largest-ever U.S. stock sale by a foreign…
Microsoft laid off approximately 4,800 employees, mostly in commercial sales and Xbox, as part of a broader restructuring to prioritize AI engineering over traditional sales teams. The cuts follow two earlier rounds in 2…
China minted 67 new unicorn start-ups in the first half of 2026, the highest in nearly five years, driven by a boom in artificial intelligence and robotics. AI and robotics accounted for over 53% of the new unicorns, wit…
GMI Cloud reported on July 7th that Tencent's Hy3 model outperformed GLM 5.1 and DeepSeek V4 in a small internal web design test, highlighting a shift in developer workflows toward task-specific open models. The vendor-r…
Syntiant Corp., an Irvine-based chipmaker specializing in low-power AI processors for earbuds and hearing aids, filed for an IPO on July 6 amid a Wall Street selloff of AI chip stocks. The company, backed by Intel Capita…