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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…
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…
One Stop Systems (OSS) has been identified as one of the top 10 hidden AI stocks to buy, according to a recent analysis. The company specializes in high-performance computing solutions for AI and edge applications, makin…
Terawulf's stock surged after the company announced a data center deal with Anthropic in Kentucky, signaling growing demand for AI infrastructure.
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…
Wall Street steg på måndagen med tekniksektorn i täten, där S&P 500 ökade 0,7 procent och Nasdaq Composite steg 1,2 procent. Halvledarbolag som Advanced Micro Devices och ASML gynnades av AI-efterfrågan, medan Microsoft …
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…