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SK Hynix plans to list American depositary receipts on the Nasdaq under ticker SKHY around July 10, aiming to raise up to $29.65 billion in the largest ADR offering in over two decades. The listing comes as the company's…
Raja Koduri's startup OXMIQ raised $35 million in Series A funding on July 1 to license its OxCore GPU architecture, aiming to let developers run CUDA code on non-NVIDIA hardware without changes. The round was co-led by …
The Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index fell 6.3% on July 1, 2026, its steepest single-day drop, as AI-memory stocks Micron and Sandisk each dropped about 10% and equipment makers KLA, Lam Research, and Appli…
Sportsbooks are recruiting risk-tolerant, data-driven young Americans as bettors, competing with startups for the same talent pool. The Supreme Court's 2018 decision legalized sports betting, and the industry generated $…
Savannah Group, a boutique executive recruitment consultancy serving FTSE firms, has gone into insolvency after investing heavily in its AI platform MapX. The company's revenue fell 20% to £12.4m in 2024, while debt cost…
Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inference. The story hi…
Onepilot and Kittylitter both enable coding agents from a phone, but Onepilot focuses on deploying and managing a fleet of persistent agents on servers, while Kittylitter is a free, open-source client for running a singl…
Inference startup Wafer claims it achieved 80% of Nvidia B200 performance on AMD MI355X GPUs running GLM-5.2, with 2.6x cheaper hardware, by optimizing the software stack. The benchmark, published by Wafer, shows 2626 to…
Co.Labs, a Saskatchewan startup incubator, reports that all 30 of its resident startups now use AI, with realtor-focused app Rivra built from idea to beta in nine months using tools like ChatGPT. Co-founder Caroline Gilm…
HCLTech won a $1.14 billion AI-driven IT contract from Mercedes-Benz, replacing Infosys as the incumbent vendor. The deal, running from July 2026 to December 2031, shifts from headcount-based outsourcing to an AI-automat…
StayThere.ai, a platform indexing 96,485 vacation rental listings from 3,124 host websites across 92 countries, launched to help guests book directly with property managers instead of through Airbnb. Founder built the se…
A wave of investment and product pivots toward world models is reshaping AI development, with Runway raising $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation for world-model pretraining and Yann LeCun launching AMI Labs after le…
Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, raised over $1 billion in seed funding for his startup AMI Labs to develop world models, an AI architecture that learns causal reasoning from raw observation rather than nex…
Two CNBC appearances by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and market analyst Ed Zitron outline a bearish scenario for American AI, predicting a bubble burst as customer demand fails to justify trillion-dollar data center costs, lea…
Guildly launched a retro pixel-style landing page for its AI team collaboration platform, which replaces scattered AI tools with a unified system that plans, builds, and ships projects. The platform features AI employees…
Japan has become a fast adopter of AI coding tools like Cognition AI's Devin, driven by a shrinking workforce and aging legacy infrastructure. The country faces a projected shortage of 789,000 software engineers by 2030,…
A Hacker News user complained that AI development has become boring, with everyone building the same thing, and asked for genuinely exciting AI projects. Another user replied that most exciting developments are protected…
Anthropic is reportedly in talks to secure a massive compute deal with Meta, seeking access to Meta's GPU clusters for training its AI models. The potential deal highlights the growing importance of hardware infrastructu…
Microsoft announced Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on AI-driven transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The company aims to help custo…
Users on Privacy Guides forum warn against using Ublock DNS, a service promoted by the same person behind the unofficial ublockorigin.com fansite, citing lack of trustworthiness and affiliation with the actual uBlock Ori…