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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…
Singapore-based startup Acti launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that embeds AI agents directly into the keyboard, enabling actions like sharing live stock prices or local recommendations without switching a…
A startup CTO who spent $50,000 on AI APIs last year shares lessons learned about API strategy for early-stage companies. The CTO warns that going direct to model providers is a trap for startups, recommending aggregatio…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment on June 30, 2026 to create a Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will embed thousands of its engineers inside customer companies to help build and run AI systems, …
LeBron James has informed the Lakers he will enter free agency, with the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers emerging as top contenders to sign him. Prediction markets show the Warriors as frontrunners with 67%…
Silicom Ltd. announced its first production order for an AI inference solution, with deliveries scheduled for 2026, raising its 2026 AI inference revenue guidance to multi-million dollars. The order marks the company's t…
Italian AI startup Domyn announced plans to release an open source frontier AI model within a year, aiming to compete with major players like OpenAI and Google. CEO Marco Rossi stated the model will be freely available t…
Anthropic's Mythos AI model was reinstated by the Trump administration for limited release to over 100 U.S. institutions after a two-week block, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup faced similar restrictions. New data from Acc…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a workbench for scientific research, at its AI for Science event on Tuesday. The offering aims to expand revenue streams ahead of the company's planned IPO later this year, as it compet…
Etched emerged from stealth with a working chip, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts, pivoting from a transformer-specialized ASIC to a full-stack inference systems company. The startup,…
Schneider Electric acquired Cognite for $3.1 billion in late June 2026, marking the largest Norwegian software exit. The deal gives Schneider ownership of Cognite's industrial data platform, which connects operational te…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers on June 30, offering a fast, low-cost image model and a video editing model via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The launch targets latency and c…
Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a former Democrat who now supports Donald Trump, has been appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The board, led by former Trump trade representative Robert Light…
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
Nvidia dominates AI training hardware, but the inference market is wide open as companies like Cerebras, Groq, d-Matrix, Etched, and Taalas challenge Nvidia's GPU-based approach by designing chips optimized for low-laten…
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI coding startup 8090 raised $135 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role. The company sells a governed software factory platform that integrates AI ag…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launched a neural headband…
Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball said AI agents will automate database management just as they have coding, driven by the explosion of AI agent demand. The company plans to launch an Agentic Database Cloud later this y…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted Meta's vision with t…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip this summer, betting o…