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Anthropic signed a $19 billion, 20-year lease with TeraWulf for 401 megawatts of data center capacity in Kentucky to address chronic Claude API outages, but relief won't come until H2 2027 at the earliest. The deal, whic…
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang argues that open-source AI models are not hurting frontier labs like Anthropic, as they serve different lifecycle phases—frontier models for discovery and open-source for production. Data from Ver…
DeepSeek is developing its own AI inference chip, according to a Reuters report, as founder Liang Wenfeng pushes the Hangzhou AI lab into chip design to reduce dependence on Nvidia and Huawei hardware amid U.S. export re…
Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference in July 2026 attracted AI leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, alongside media moguls discussing deals involving Comcast, Paramount, and Warner Bros.…
AI has made building software trivial, shifting the competitive advantage from engineering to distribution and customer selection. SaaS is not dead, but the old moat of hard-to-build code is gone, replaced by the need to…
Figma acquired the team behind Bud, an AI agent builder formerly known as Orchids, to strengthen its AI prototyping capabilities. The deal, reported by TechCrunch on July 7, 2026, will shut down Bud and Orchids by July 1…
Stockholm produces AI-era founders at a rate nearly matching Silicon Valley, driven by the city's unique compression of industries and institutional support for cross-disciplinary talent. The E-shaped professional—combin…
China is considering new export controls on frontier AI models, including both proprietary and open-weight systems, to protect domestic capabilities amid intensifying competition with the US. Officials from the Ministry …
A new service called hyoomn offers B2B SaaS teams human-led creative direction for AI-generated designs, providing async feedback on UI, UX, and brand elements via Slack or email for $1,950 per month. Founded by a team w…
X launched a built-in video editor for iOS with captions and green screen features, while Meta shut down multiple game studios to focus on AI-generated games via its new Pocket app. X's move empowers creators, whereas Me…
AI practitioners can build professional authority by consistently publishing substantive, practical insights rather than hype or tutorials, creating a brand that attracts opportunities through referrals and recognition. …
Chinese startup DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip for inference, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips. The move marks a major strategic shift for the company, which is hailed as China's AI champion, …
South Korean chip startup FuriosaAI has activated its RNGD AI accelerators at Equinix's Lisbon datacentre, offering European enterprises a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia chips. The 180-watt accelerators deliver 51…
Anthropic expanded Claude Cowork, its general-knowledge-work agent, from desktop to web and mobile in beta for Max subscribers, introducing a Dispatch feature that maintains a persistent thread and routes tasks to Claude…
ElevenLabs opened its first Canadian office in Toronto and appointed Max Lemmens as General Manager for Canada, aiming to double its 13-person Canadian workforce by the end of 2026. The voice-AI company already serves 30…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp criticized frontier AI labs OpenAI and Anthropic, claiming enterprises get no value from their tokens and risk losing IP. However, many companies are actively seeking ROI from AI, and Karp's commen…
Microsoft has started routing some AI prompts in Excel and Outlook from OpenAI and Anthropic models to its own MAI models, with tens of thousands of weekly prompts already handled internally, according to Bloomberg. The …
China is considering cutting off foreign access to its top AI systems, including open-source models, following a meeting between state officials and tech developers Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai. The move aims to protect …
U.S. companies are increasingly adopting Chinese AI models like DeepSeek and Z.ai's GLM 5.2 due to rising domestic costs and narrowing performance gaps, with corporate usage surging from 4.5% in early 2025 to over 30% we…
Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI responses, targeting ev…