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AI chip startup Groq is reportedly raising $650 million from existing investors to expand its inference cloud business, following a $20 billion agreement with Nvidia in December that involved employee departures and tech…
The China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, a state-backed entity known as the "Big Fund," is in talks to lead Chinese AI startup DeepSeek's first external funding round at an approximate $45 billion valuation…
A developer building WebKernelAI found that traditional website malware scanners fail to detect SEO spam because attackers hide malicious content behind user-agent detection, referrer checks, and conditional JavaScript. …
Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public at a valuation of at least $1.25 trillion, while OpenAI and Anthropic are expected to follow with initial public offerings valued at roughly $900 billion each. These sky-high …
Anthropic announced a $65 billion funding round Thursday that values the company at $965 billion, making it the world's most valuable AI startup and surpassing rival OpenAI's $852 billion valuation. The San Francisco-bas…
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are competing to raise $36 billion to acquire chips from Google for use by Anthropic, the AI startup backed by Google. The deal would provide Anthropic with critical computing powe…
Mistral AI announced at its AI Now Summit in Paris that it is transitioning from a model company to a full-stack AI provider, owning its own data centers and focusing on efficient, open, and customizable models for on-pr…
Google's AI pricing has tripled annually, while OpenAI's flagship model rose after a period of subsidy and Anthropic's most powerful models saw a price decrease. The three vendors now all face increasing costs as capital…
A German startup, MicroAGI, is offering free home cleaning in New York City through its Shift app, sending cleaners wearing cameras to record footage for training AI-driven robots. The company claims all personal informa…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu said his company's AI coding agent Devin is not designed to replace human programmers, despite the startup's $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion valuation. Wu, a former child competitive prog…
A product manager who built a game AI Agent using vibe coding encountered four distinct hallucination bugs during testing, including the Agent fabricating a non-existent weapon with detailed stats and generating a struct…
A developer built AutoMaxFix, a Python CLI tool that intentionally stops after fixing a single failing test, after repeatedly observing AI coding agents produce "successful" patches that quietly broke unrelated code. The…
SPC's May 2026 update highlights major fundraises including Cognition's $1B Series D and Recursive's $650M round, along with events in SF, NYC, and Bangalore featuring humanoids, drones, and cybersecurity research. Membe…
SpaceX has lowered its initial public offering valuation target to at least $1.8 trillion, down from a previous goal of over $2 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter. The rocket and AI company, which is …
Anthropic PBC’s seven co-founders, including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, each became worth about $8 billion after the AI firm raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, adding the most billionaires from a sin…
The Nikkei Stock Average closed above 65,000 on May 25 for the first time, accelerating a rally that moved the benchmark from 50,000 to 60,000 in six months and then to 65,000 in weeks. The advance was driven by easing M…
At the SaaStr AI Annual 2026 conference, organizers reported that their Amelia AI agent processed 442,000 chats and booked 614 qualified meetings from 2.2 million website sessions, with an average sponsor deal size of $8…
Basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony's production company, Creative 7 Productions, has become a strategic partner and investor in Utopai Studios to develop sports and entertainment intellectual property using the stu…
SentinelOne shares fell 12% after the company announced plans to cut 8% of its full-time workforce to focus on artificial intelligence and data investments. CEO Tomer Weingarten told analysts the layoffs are a deliberate…
A developer has created Aweskill, a CLI-first Skill package manager designed to be operated autonomously by AI coding agents. The tool enables agents to install, manage, and troubleshoot their own Skills without human in…