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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…
Cockroach Labs and IBM introduced the Always-On Data Foundation, combining CockroachDB's distributed SQL with IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper 5 to provide resilient infrastructure for enterprise AI workloads, addressing the need…
AI companies have committed approximately $9.75 billion over 12 months to forward-deployed engineering (FDE), embedding engineers inside customers to deploy AI. FDE job postings surged 42x from 2023 to 2025, driven by th…
Meta is monetizing AI infrastructure by releasing open-weight Llama models to capture cloud and hardware spend, while OpenAI shifts focus to acquisitions and government relationships as model performance converges and to…
OpenAI and Anthropic are escalating a price war for Y Combinator startups, with both now offering $500,000 in free AI computing credits. OpenAI adjusted its earlier equity-for-credits deal after Anthropic matched the fre…
Elon Musk's xAI has been rebranded as SpaceXAI following its acquisition by SpaceX earlier this year. The move aims to clarify the AI division's role within SpaceX's broader vision of space-based AI infrastructure, which…
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix plans to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, potentially raising around $28 billion. The company is capitalizing on an AI-fueled memory chip shortage that has driven its …
Thrive Holdings is raising $2 billion from SoftBank, Altimeter, and D1 Capital Partners to acquire and rebuild services firms with AI, marking its first outside funding round. The roll-up strategy focuses on integrating …
Syntiant Corp., an Intel-backed maker of AI chips and software, filed for an IPO on Monday. The Irvine, California-based company reported a net loss of $26.2 million on revenue of $64.5 million for the quarter ended Marc…
Coursera cut jobs on July 6, 2026, as part of its merger with Udemy, aiming to achieve $115 million in annual cost synergies. The layoffs, tied to integration and restructuring, will incur $8 million to $11 million in ex…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI has officially rebranded to SpaceXAI following its acquisition by SpaceX in February, debuting a new logo and updated social media handle. The rebrand comes after SpaceX's record-breaking $75 b…
SpaceX has absorbed xAI and rebranded the combined entity as SpaceXAI, extending a February $1.25 trillion merger into an orbital-AI infrastructure strategy. The company has filed with the FCC for up to one million orbit…
SpaceX officially absorbed xAI under the SpaceXAI brand in May 2026, completing the largest private merger in history valued at $1.25 trillion. The new SpaceXAI logo embeds xAI within SpaceX's identity, signaling full ab…
South Korea's SK Hynix is launching a $28 billion Nasdaq listing to give US investors easier access to the AI memory-chip boom. The company will sell 17.79 million new shares as American Depositary Receipts, with proceed…
Elon Musk's AI consolidation took a public branding step on Monday as the X account @xAI changed to @SpaceXAI, but the move left legal and operational questions unanswered. The rebranding follows Musk's earlier announcem…
Cohere Labs arrives in Seoul for ICML 2026, where AI research intersects with sales and recruiting. The conference serves as a platform for Cohere to convert technical credibility into enterprise deals, following its $50…