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OpenAI has appointed former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, effective September. Singh will oversee growth, partnerships, and regulatory engagement in OpenAI's second-larges…
Meta holds 84% of the global smart glasses market in Q1 2026, shipping 7.4 million units in 2025—a 281% year-over-year increase—driven by AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses starting at $299, while competitors collectively accoun…
Andy has joined Simple AI as employee #16, taking on a forward deployed role after previous stints at Scale AI and as a cofounder of Shuffle. He expresses enthusiasm for working alongside cofounder and CTO Zach, citing a…
The Federal Trade Commission fast-tracked Elon Musk's acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, granting early termination of an antitrust review, while the same agency spent years investigating his Twitter purchase. The…
Hyoomn, a new service from Fairpixels, offers weekly async design reviews for B2B SaaS teams that use AI to code, providing actionable feedback on UI, UX, and brand for $1,950/month. The service targets teams whose AI-ge…
Alphabet is expanding its Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business through a $5 billion joint venture with Blackstone to build 500 MW of TPU compute capacity by 2027, as Google Cloud revenue is projected to rise 64% to $96 …
Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it claims can compete with Anthropic's Mythos, while Tokyo-based Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier model designed for agents. Both releases follow a U.S. g…
Photon Matrix Lab, a Chinese startup, raised US$2.7 million on Indiegogo for its AI-powered laser mosquito zapper, far exceeding its US$20,000 goal. The device uses AI vision and lidar to detect and kill mosquitoes mid-f…
At least 10 power infrastructure and clean technology companies have gone public in 2026, raising $11.6 billion, as investors bet on solutions to AI's growing energy demands. The IPO surge is fueled by cash-rich tech fir…
Tokyo-based Sakana AI and Beijing cybersecurity firm 360 Security launched AI tools this week as alternatives to Anthropic's banned Mythos and Fable models, capitalizing on the US export ban now in its third week. Sakana…
OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser declared the company is 'clearly in the advertising business now' at the Cannes Lions festival, outlining plans to shift from an 'awareness economy' to an 'intelligence economy…
Nvidia's venture arm NVentures disclosed a $10.4 million stake in Generate:Biomedicines, an AI-driven drug discovery company with a Phase 3 asthma trial and FDA Fast Track oncology candidates. The investment signals Nvid…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, 2026, imposing a 50% stock tax on major AI firms to create a $7 trillion public fund that would pay $1,000 annual dividends to every U.…
Elon Musk admitted he has 'fallen prey' to flashy credentials when hiring, emphasizing that conversation quality matters more than résumés. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he now advises hiring based on interactions rather…
A developer argues that AI is killing the SaaS model by enabling anyone to build custom software quickly, making paid subscriptions for simple tools unnecessary. The developer suggests that single-purpose SaaS products w…
Indie makers and creators are experiencing burnout and despair over the belief that AI eliminates competitive moats, but the author argues that code is no longer a moat and that building a true product with depth, integr…
A developer warns that AI devtool founders must map the trust boundary before selling connector-heavy products. The hard part is not the integration itself but explaining what the system reads, stores, remembers, and sen…
Microsoft promoted Jacob Andreou to Executive Vice President of Copilot, consolidating consumer and commercial AI teams under his leadership. The former Snap executive, who demonstrated Copilot Tasks by autonomously orde…
A B2B SaaS startup cut its LLM inference costs by 97% by switching from GPT-4o to cheaper alternatives like DeepSeek V4 Flash, reducing a $14,200 monthly OpenAI bill to an estimated $355. The developer standardized on th…
Insiders from buzzy startups including Perplexity, Kalshi, Replit, Harvey, and Lovable shared tips for job seekers, advising them to join user communities, do deep research, flex creativity, show startup culture fit, and…