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Apple's Vision Pro hardware chief Paul Meade is leaving the company to join OpenAI's hardware unit, where he will work on a family of AI-powered devices, according to Bloomberg. The move signals continued talent flow fro…
Micah Lasher won a Manhattan congressional primary despite $27 million in spending by AI-backed super PACs, defeating Alex Bores who was supported by Anthropic's Public First Action and opposed by OpenAI-linked Leading t…
Paul Meade, former Vice President of Hardware Engineering for Apple's Vision Products Group, has joined OpenAI's hardware unit to develop AI-powered consumer devices. Meade, who led the development of Apple Vision Pro, w…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund to invest in crypto, AI, robotics, and energy, with half already deployed. The fund, which managed $1.28 billion in assets as of December 2025, counts fund-of-funds, f…
Oracle's stock fell after a report indicated that its key partner, OpenAI, could delay its initial public offering, raising concerns about the partnership's impact on Oracle's growth.
Amazon Web Services will raise prices on its Nvidia-powered GPU cloud instances by 20% starting July 1, marking the second price hike in 2026 as demand for AI training infrastructure outpaces supply. The flagship P6-B300…
General Intuition US Inc. raised $320 million in Series A funding to build AI models trained on billions of video game clips from Medal, aiming to develop physical AI that can perceive and act in virtual and real environ…
OpenAI appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former President of Uber India and South Asia, as its Managing Director for India, effective September 2026. Singh will lead OpenAI's expansion in India, its second-largest ChatGPT marke…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, the company's second-largest market after the U.S. Singh will join in September and oversee growth…
Retail investors poured a record $22.5 billion into US-listed semiconductor ETFs in the first half of 2026, with inflows surging 1,200% in a single month as AI demand accelerated. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) ros…
Ventora expanded its AI Business Builder platform to help solo founders launch online businesses by combining specialized AI agents for market validation, product creation, marketing, and customer acquisition, reducing t…
Sanctuary AI appointed board chair Daniel Friedmann as CEO, replacing interim CEO James Wells, who announced his departure as the company shifts to scaling its existing humanoid robot technology. Friedmann, former MDA ex…
OpenAI has delayed its IPO to 2027, expecting AI rival Anthropic to go public first, according to Bloomberg News. The ChatGPT maker had targeted a fall listing, but recent tech stock volatility influenced the revised tim…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 73 fellows selected for its inaugural Design Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders from companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, and Google. The fellows …
SpaceX announced Starmind, a project to deploy up to 1 million AI-processing satellites in low Earth orbit, creating a distributed space-based data center. The network, confirmed by Elon Musk on June 23, 2026, will use s…
Liva AI (YC S25), a multimodal data company building inclusive and emotionally intelligent AI, is hiring a Founding Operations Lead to run data collection projects and build automated operations systems. The role involve…
Most U.S. benchmarks rose on Friday, but AI-related stocks dragged Wall Street toward a weekly loss. The S&P 500 recovered to a 0.5% gain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194 points, and the Nasdaq was about 0.5% h…
Elon Musk's X Money digital payment venture is expanding to more US premium users on social network X, part of his plan to create an 'everything app.' The tool, which allows peer-to-peer payments and savings, was release…
The FTSE 100 fell 0.2% on Friday as technology stocks declined after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its initial public offering until 2027 due to concerns about market interest. The report weighed on marke…
The AI boom may be entering its final stages as stock volatility surges and companies rush to raise cash, with analysts at Capital Economics warning of an equity bubble close to bursting. The Nasdaq heads for its worst w…