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ForthWrite founder Curtis Boortz launched an AI email-writing Chrome extension that trains on users' sent mail history to build a personal voice model, distinguishing it from general-purpose tools like ChatGPT. The exten…
Dell's AI server sales surged, driving revenue past expectations and boosting Michael Dell's net worth to $217 billion, but gross margins dropped 26% since February 2025 as AI now accounts for 37% of revenue. Analysts de…
Anthropic unveiled Sonnet 5, the latest Claude model, as a cost-efficient alternative to larger models amid rising AI expenses. The model offers agentic capabilities at lower pricing, with early testers like Cursor prais…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment to embed forward deployed engineers within customer networks, aiming to help organizations become self-sufficient with AI. The role, which has seen job postings surge…
Aker ASA sold Cognite to Schneider Electric for $3.1 billion, netting a 20x return on its investment, and is reinvesting the proceeds into Nscale, a European AI infrastructure provider, becoming its largest shareholder w…
Amazon Robotics is close to signing a lease for 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, joining a growing hub of AI and tech firms. The Massachusetts-based division develops autonom…
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX launched a marketplace named OKX AI that enables autonomous AI agents to discover work, hire one another, and settle payments in stablecoins, following a closed beta with 50 early AI service p…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
SemiAnalysis surveyed over 50 enterprises and found that widespread token overspending, as reported at Meta and Uber, is overstated and not representative of most organizations. Companies are now adopting token budgets r…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company has raised over $935…
Schneider Electric acquired Norwegian industrial AI company Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, aiming to integrate its data and AI platform into its Aveva software unit. The deal positions Schneider to lead in industrial AI, wh…
AI chip startup Etched announced it has booked $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million to date, including a $500 million round at a $5 billion valuation, as it emerges from stealth with a specialized chip f…
Amazon Web Services committed $1 billion to a new Forward Deployed Engineering program, sending small teams of engineers to work directly with clients for 45-day engagements to build custom AI systems. The initiative, an…
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), a role pioneered by Palantir, are surging in demand in 2025 as AI startups and scaleups need engineers who can embed with customers to integrate AI solutions. Venture firm a16z has call…
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based acquirer of AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and WeTransfer, priced its Nasdaq IPO above the $26-$28 range at a valuation of roughly $19 billion, driven by strong demand from Wall Street. The company…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper and more agentic midsize model that can plan, use tools, and run autonomously. Priced at $2 per million input tokens through August, it offers performance close to Opus 4.8 a…
Anthropic launched its cheaper Claude Sonnet 5 model, designed for agentic AI and autonomous tasks, as tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Uber seek to cut AI token costs. The model offers improved performance over its…
Phantom has acquired the team behind Ventuals, a platform for permissionless perpetual futures on private company valuations, to bolster its on-chain trading capabilities. The Ventuals team, led by CEO Alvin Hsia and CTO…
Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Sonnet 5, codenamed "Fennec," on OpenRouter, according to reports. The model, which was rumored for a February 2026 launch that did not materialize, is now nearing availability on…