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Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.9 billion on June 24, 2026, to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA software dominance with Modular's Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, which enable AI developers to write…
Sunnyvale ranked No. 7 among midsize cities in CoworkingCafe's annual study of top cities for college graduates, slipping from second place last year due to a $22,400 income correction and rising youth unemployment. The …
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually starting in fiscal year 202…
Google account executive Yousuf Imran, who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company in April to found AI startup Mangosteen Studio, citing FOMO around the AI boom and layoffs at Google. Business Insider publi…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund, oversubscribed, with half already deployed into AI, robotics, and energy, including a $60 million Series A in Mecka AI and a stake in Better.com. Co-founder Michael A…
Persistent Systems and Nagarro announced an all-cash takeover offer at EUR 81 per share, valuing Nagarro at approximately EUR 1 billion. The merger creates a $2.9 billion digital engineering entity with 46,000+ engineers…
The auto repair industry, with 280,000 largely undigitized shops in the US, is seeing a convergence of AI receptionists, predictive scheduling, and private equity rollups targeting a $3.4 billion software market projecte…
Wall Street analysts say the AI-driven stock market rally is not a bubble about to pop, despite surging costs and lofty valuations. Micron's blockbuster earnings reassured investors that AI spending remains on track, but…
Emerging market ETFs are increasingly tied to the AI chip trade as South Korea and Taiwan funds surpass China-focused funds in assets, pulling investors into the same global semiconductor cycle driving US tech. The shift…
Yousuf Imran, a former Google Cloud account executive earning nearly $1 million in 2025, left the company in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab for sales tools. Imran cited the equity gap between Bi…
Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former Google account executive who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab building sales tools. He cited fears of layoffs and a des…
Cursor acquired open-source AI coding assistant Continue.dev in a quiet acqui-hire on June 16 and is shutting the product down. All user data will be permanently deleted on July 15, with no migration path provided. Users…
Arvind Jain, a former Google engineer who co-founded Rubrik and Glean, says he learned from Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin that thinking big and disregarding normal constraints is as important as hard work. J…
Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, Vision Pro, HomePods, and Apple TV by 15% to over 30%, blaming surging memory costs driven by AI data center demand. The price hikes follow similar moves by Microsoft, Motorola, and Sa…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that speeds up AI inference by up to 85% while reducing costs and chip strain. The module uses a lightweight draft model and semi-autoregressi…
AI training startup Shift offers free housecleaning in exchange for customers allowing a camera headset on the cleaner to record footage, which is then licensed to train AI-powered household robots. The company, owned by…
Y Combinator's 2026 AI investment trends reveal a shift toward applied AI startups in healthcare, defense, and enterprise automation, with a focus on reducing reliance on large language models. The analysis shows increas…
Nvidia's global inference datacenter market share has fallen to 1%, as competitors like China's HX-9 Pro chip and open-source models from Zhipu and Sakana AI erode its dominance. A Tier-2 datacenter in Ohio replaced its …
A developer argues that Tailwind UI's decline was caused by its lifetime license business model, not AI. The one-time payment model created unsustainable support costs, while free alternatives like shadcn/ui and AI tools…
Investors face a busy week with the June jobs report, falling oil prices, and ongoing AI spending concerns. The S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all edged lower on Friday, while markets await key economic data and earnings from …