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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…
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…
Companies heavily investing in AI are growing headcount by 10% over two years, with entry-level hiring up 12%, according to a Ramp and Revelio Labs study of 21,559 U.S. firms. Meanwhile, the five largest AI compute spend…
Yield Guild Games is shutting down its crypto game publishing arm YGG Play, laying off 35 employees and retiring its website, launchpad, and games like LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper by August 1, citing the crypto market dow…
Paraito, a Montréal-based startup backed by Inovia, raised $2.65 million to automate real estate title searches for Québec notaries using AI.
Raja Koduri's startup Oxmiq raised $35 million in Series A funding led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fundomo to develop OxCore, a licensable GPU architecture on RISC-V that runs existing CUDA and PyTorch code without modi…
Tencent is selling up to $1.6 billion of its stake in Kuaishou, reducing its holding from 15.68% to about 9.37%, in a block trade of 273 million shares. The sale comes shortly after Tencent helped fund Kuaishou's Kling A…
OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC in June 2026, targeting a Nasdaq IPO as early as Q4 2026, but most investors cannot buy stock directly until the listing is complete. Accredited investors can access pre-IPO s…
Microsoft eliminated 4,800 roles, citing AI automation, joining a wave of tech layoffs that have cut 120,000 jobs in 2026. Oracle cut 21,000 employees, GitLab laid off 350 workers, and Google reduced thousands of roles, …
Zhipu AI launched ZCode, a development environment powered by its GLM-5.2 model, to compete with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex at a lower cost. New customers receive a free five-day trial with up to 5 million tokens per d…
Katalyze AI, co-founded by a former Sanofi leader and WFHomie co-founder, raised $10.5 million USD to deploy teams of AI agents that accelerate pharmaceutical drug development operations.
SpaceX acquired Cursor's parent company Anysphere for $60 billion in stock, the largest startup acquisition in history, and Cursor launched a GitHub competitor called Origin. The deal consolidates developer tools, models…
Meta announced plans to sell excess AI compute to third parties, surprising investors and causing shares of neocloud providers CoreWeave and Nebius to drop 19% and 23% respectively. The move comes amid reports that CEO M…
Together AI raised $800 million in Series C funding at an $8.3 billion valuation, driven by customer reports of 6x to 60x cost reductions for AI inference compared to closed APIs. The company crossed $1.15 billion in ann…
MIPS by GlobalFoundries CEO Sameer Wasson and CTO Yankin Tanurhan discussed the company's acquisition of Synopsys' IP Processor Solutions business and the rise of physical AI in automotive and factory-floor robotics, pos…
Mercor, an AI labor marketplace founded by Brendan Foody, hit a $2 billion gross annualized revenue run rate in June 2026, doubling its pace earlier in the year. The growth comes as Amazon phases out Mechanical Turk, wit…
OpenAI has introduced a new feature in ChatGPT Ads that allows advertisers to generate ads using AI. The tool creates ad variations based on the advertiser's website and campaign settings, which can then be reviewed, edi…
SK hynix announced a KRW 100 trillion ($65 billion) investment to expand NAND flash and advanced packaging capacity in Cheongju, South Korea, driven by surging AI demand for memory. The investment includes a new NAND fab…