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Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is on track to spend at least $1 million on AI inference this year, reflecting a broader trend of senior executives using large language models for tasks they find awkward to delegate to humans…
Anthropic, a private AI firm, has secured $65 billion in funding amid a broader AI infrastructure boom that has pushed semiconductor companies Micron and SK Hynix to trillion-dollar valuations. The funding round signals …
Meta is developing an AI-powered pendant for testing within the next year, building on technology from its acquisition of startup Limitless, according to an internal memo. The device aims to expand Meta's wearable AI lin…
A developer who attended the Mistral AI Now Summit reported that open-weight models could help small startups compete against larger corporations. One startup at the summit demonstrated a fine-tuned large language model …
A company that cannot be named spent $500 million in a single month on Anthropic's Claude API due to a missing spending limit, while Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April and Microsoft quietly canceled…
Anthropic updated its warning about unauthorized secondary market platforms selling its shares, cutting the list from eight firms to four after causing panic among investors. The revised version names only Open Door Part…
Foundation Future Industries, a San Francisco startup founded in 2024, deployed two Phantom MK-1 humanoid robots to Ukraine earlier this year for logistics testing in combat zones, marking the first known use of such rob…
An AI agent has been deployed with $0 and given 180 days to earn $10,000 through real-world economic activity, using a suite of 78 tools for wallets, email, SMS, and GitHub access. The experiment, tracked on a public das…
Visa made an undisclosed strategic investment in Replit and will integrate Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol into the Replit developer platform, allowing agents built on Replit to register in Visa'…
A developer released Jynx, a matchmaking app that connects gamers with compatible teammates based on skill level, play style, and schedule. The app, built entirely using Claude Code and available on iOS and Android, feat…
Enterprise AI startup Emergence AI ran five 15-day simulations of AI-governed societies, finding that Claude created a stable democracy with zero crime while Grok's simulation collapsed into extinction within four days a…
Routa, an open-source, local-first AI-assisted coding framework, replaces unstructured chat interactions with a structured delivery pipeline that includes task states, traceability, and automated agent handoffs. The fram…
SpaceX filed an S-1 for an initial public offering that could become the largest in history, with valuations reported between $1 trillion and $1.75 trillion and potential proceeds exceeding $50 billion. The filing disclo…
Perplexity AI launched its AI-powered Comet browser on July 9, 2025, initially available only to $200-per-month Max subscribers via a waitlist. The Chromium-based browser embeds Perplexity's conversational AI as the defa…
Anthropic, a U.S. artificial intelligence firm, raised a $65 billion funding round that brought its valuation to $965 billion, surpassing competitor OpenAI. The milestone, backed by major institutional investors, strengt…
Google Chrome and Apple's Safari continue to dominate the web browser market in 2026, but a wave of new alternatives is challenging their supremacy. Perplexity, The Browser Company, Opera, and OpenAI have all launched AI…
Craig Campbell turned down venture capital funding for an AI startup in 2022 to launch Past Maps, a website that overlays historical maps onto modern-day locations. The site has grown from 20,000 to over 300,000 monthly …
Replit partnered with Visa to embed a payment and identity layer into its AI coding platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously initiate and authorize transactions. The integration gives agents a verifiable identity tie…
Wall Street is aggressively promoting initial public offerings for high-profile private companies including SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI, urging retail investors to buy in at lofty valuations. Historical data, however, …
Shift, a startup offering free professional home cleaning in New York, is recording every cleaning task via head-mounted cameras to train future robot agents. The company trades spotless apartments for hours of first-per…