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Apptronik, a Texas-based humanoid robotics startup valued at over $5.5 billion, has opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin where its Apollo robots practice tasks like loading boxes and sorting toys to generat…
Twilio CEO Khozema Shipchandler outlines a strategy for developing future CEOs from within the company, emphasizing cross-functional rotations, mentorship, and permission to think bigger. He argues that building internal…
Investors are dumping BPO stocks like Teleperformance and Concentrix, betting that AI will disrupt the call center industry. Teleperformance shares fell 29.3% after Klarna disclosed its AI assistant replaced 700 agents, …
June 2026 saw major gadget announcements at Computex, Apple's WWDC, and AWE, including Dell's XPS 13 laptop, Segway's Navimow X430 lawn mower, and Xbox Series X25, but rising component costs due to AI data center demand …
Shares of call-center companies Concentrix Corp. and Teleperformance SE fell sharply after Concentrix cut its revenue outlook and warned that clients are reducing spending, fueling analyst concerns that AI tools are maki…
Chip stocks have more than doubled in the first half of 2026 despite a turbulent period marked by the Iran war and geopolitical tensions, with the U.S. SOX chip index posting its best second quarter on record. The Federa…
Yousuf Imran, a Google Cloud account executive earning $986,000 in 2025, quit in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab, citing fear of layoffs and FOMO about the AI boom. He noted that AI labs like Ope…
Wedbush analyst Dan Ives warned that AI stocks are in an 'air pocket' as investors treat Meta and Microsoft like 'bear market names that cannot be owned' amid uncertainty over AI monetization. Ives noted that hyperscaler…
Zurich, Switzerland, has become a global R&D hub for major tech companies including Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI, with an AI ecosystem rivaling Silicon Valley in density. The region benefits from po…
The Magnificent 7 tech stocks lost $2.3 trillion in market value in June 2026 as investors doubted near-term returns from AI infrastructure spending, while chipmakers rallied on component shortages. Wedbush analyst Dan I…
Technology stocks are on pace for their best first half since 2023, rallying 28% year to date, driven by AI infrastructure investments despite underperformance from the 'Magnificent Seven' megacap stocks. Investors have …
A Hugging Face forum user asked which open-source large language model the community prefers for chatbot development and why, sparking discussion on model selection criteria.
An engineer built an AI pipeline for a job platform that processed 10,000 daily listings, but the project was shut down when the API bill reached $3,000 per month for a single feature. The developer learned to use struct…
Chip stocks are heading for their best quarter ever, with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange Semiconductor Index soaring 81% in Q2, driven by AI demand. However, recent volatility and concerns about sustainability have inve…
Crypto exchange OKX launched a marketplace for AI agents to hire each other, settle payments autonomously, and build on-chain reputations, betting on a future where autonomous software drives a trillion-dollar 'agentic e…
Scan Computers has evolved into a leading provider of AI, cloud and advanced computing solutions, including humanoid robots and cloud compute platforms, as one of only a handful of NVIDIA Elite Solution Partners in the U…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix pledged 3,200 trillion won ($2.07 trillion) in investments to expand South Korea's memory chip production capacity, betting on sustained AI demand. The plan, supported by President Lee Ja…
Chamath Palihapitiya stepped down from his venture capital role to become full-time CEO of 8090 Labs, which raised a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures to target the enterprise AI coding market with its pro…
Straiker, an agentic security startup, raised $64 million in Series A funding to secure AI agents in enterprises. The company's platform detects, tests, and monitors AI agents to prevent attacks, as traditional security …
Physical AI raised $55.8 billion in H1 2026, nearly double the full-year record from 2025, with 12 commercial humanoid platforms available and Figure AI delivering 350+ units. NVIDIA released new Vision-Language-Action m…