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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe wants his electric vehicle company to be compared to Apple and Nike rather than Tesla, emphasizing product quality and brand identity over competing directly with Tesla's scale. Despite a challengi…
Micron Technology and SanDisk stocks have surged over 200% as AI-driven demand for high bandwidth memory and NAND flash creates a global shortage, with Micron up 550% to a $600B market cap and SanDisk up 3,000% to $157B.…
Acer's Predator Helios Neo 16 gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 Ti and Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX is on sale for $1,979.99 at Newegg, a $220 discount. The deal offers a high-performance 50-series GPU and top-tier CPU for unde…
LG Electronics has established a Robotics Business Center directly under its CEO, consolidating commercialization, sales, and operations for home, industrial, and commercial robots. The move, reported by Korea Herald and…
A viral post in China showed an HR professional building a recruitment agent in three minutes that screened six candidates from 310 résumés, contrasting with a failed 2.75 million RMB AI office system. The post highlight…
Qualcomm agreed to acquire Modular for nearly $4 billion, while Cursor quietly acquired open-source coding assistant Continue and Elastic acquired AI SRE startup Deductive AI for up to $85 million. DeepSeek closed over $…
SpaceX's record-breaking $86 billion IPO left Mirae Asset Securities Co., a South Korean brokerage, with zero stock allocation due to a misunderstanding over order submission. Mirae treated an early indication of interes…
European companies ASML, Novo Nordisk, and Mistral have achieved global leadership in advanced chips, obesity drugs, and open-source AI despite a venture capital pool 75% smaller than the US and €700 billion less annual …
Warp, an AI-native employee management startup, raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $85 million. The company automates HR compliance and administrative workflows usin…
A developer argues that 90% of AI startups launched last year were thin wrappers over LLM APIs and failed when providers released native features. To build defensible AI apps, the developer recommends using Retrieval-Aug…
AI-assisted coding tools have sparked a platform shift, with Cursor reaching a $29.3 billion valuation and Lovable hitting $400 million ARR, as 63% of users are non-developers. The cost to build a SaaS product has droppe…
The Magnificent Seven tech stocks lost over $2.3 trillion in market value in June, as investors demand proof that AI revenue can catch up with massive infrastructure spending. The selloff reflects a shift in patience, wi…
Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, tracking Wall Street gains, with South Korea's Kospi rebounding 1.3% after recent tech-led losses. Oil prices stabilized as the U.S. and Iran agreed to send delegations to Qatar for talk…
OpenAI offers $5 in free API credits to new developer accounts, expiring after 3 months. Early-stage startups can apply to the OpenAI Startup Program for $2,500 to $50,000 in credits. Students can access free credits and…
Agency Agents, a native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows, launches to install specialized AI agent personalities into developer tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The app offers over a dozen agents covering fron…
Solo founders now account for 63% of C corporations formed on Stripe Atlas in Q2 2026, driven by AI agents that compress team-sized work into one-person operations. Stripe's analysis shows top-performing solo founders bu…
Base44 founder Maor Shlomo launched Base 1, a proprietary AI model for the Wix-owned app-building platform, aiming to reduce dependence on external model vendors and gain more control over costs and data. The move turns …
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding window that was shu…
A report from Ramp and Revelio Labs analyzing nearly 22,000 companies found that firms spending heavily on AI grew headcount by 10.2%, including entry-level roles, countering fears of widespread job losses. However, the …
A team of small creators launched an Audio ML sharing platform on Hacker News, aiming to help the community share audio machine learning demos and eventually monetize trained models. The platform seeks to foster open-sou…