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Investor Chamath Palihapitiya said Meta “completely fumbled” its lead in artificial intelligence, arguing the company failed to capitalize on its data and distribution advantages to become the dominant open-weight AI lab…
Adobe is acquiring Topaz Labs to integrate its on-device AI inference technology, NeuroStream, and Emmy-winning enhancement models into Creative Cloud, aiming to compete with Canva and Blackmagic Design. The deal, announ…
Chinese physical AI start-up Fysics AI launched Fysiverse, a physics-based world model that embeds real-world physical laws into its code, diverging from data-driven approaches used by OpenAI and Meta. Founded by former …
Micron Technology's fiscal third-quarter earnings validate market enthusiasm for AI demand, according to Franklin Templeton Global Investment Strategist Michael Browne, who said any 10% pullback in the stock would be a b…
Amol, a former CTO turned CEO, describes how AI eliminated the 'bullshit overhead' of tracking work across multiple tools at his startup, freeing him from counting 'geese'—a metaphor for tedious data synchronization task…
Nasdaq futures surged 2.24% on June 25 after Micron reported an earnings beat and issued an upbeat outlook, while Qualcomm set a $15 billion data-center revenue target by 2029, boosting chip stocks. Markets await the PCE…
Arca, an AI-powered wealth management platform founded by former Plaid product leader Rron Rexha, raised $64 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by Venrock and General Catalyst. The firm manages over $1 bil…
Blueshoe, an AI-native law firm founded by Casey O'Grady and Kai Yee Wan, launched as a full-stack consumer and plaintiff-side firm, not a legal AI tool. The Y Combinator-backed startup aims to rebuild the law firm aroun…
Kog released Laneformer 2B, a 2.3B-parameter coding model designed for high-speed decoding, on Hugging Face Hub. The model was trained from scratch with latency as the primary objective, achieving 45.1% HumanEval+ and 51…
Probook, a New York startup using AI to automate dispatch for plumbing, HVAC and electrical contractors, raised $40 million in total funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital. The 24-year-old CEO George Eliadi…
Adobe acquired Topaz Labs, an AI-powered image and video enhancement tool maker, to integrate its models into Adobe's Firefly app and Creative Cloud suite. The deal aims to strengthen Adobe's AI capabilities and retain u…
Two AI agent security startups, Arcade.dev and Convey, raised a combined $98 million in 72 hours, signaling a market gap as 80.9% of technical teams have AI agents in production but only 14.4% have full security approval…
TensorX and Solstice announced a partnership to create a $1 billion financing facility for AI hardware and data-center capacity across the EU, aiming to meet rising demand for sovereign AI compute. Solstice also launched…
Solstice and TensorX announced a $1 billion financing facility to fund AI hardware purchases and data center expansion across Europe, targeting rising demand for locally hosted AI services. The partnership combines Tenso…
Anthropic hired Steve Jarrett, Orange's chief AI officer, to lead its European and African expansion. Jarrett will join the Claude maker in Paris in late August to adapt products for those markets. The hire underscores A…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Netris, a startup that provides network management software for GPU data centers. The company's solution addresses the complexity of managing multiple networks in AI data center…
Sail Research raised $80 million across seed and Series A rounds to build inference infrastructure for AI agents that run for hours across thousands of simultaneous tasks. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the startup offers hi…
Investor Michael Burry, known for 'The Big Short,' framed a Lululemon shopping bag from 2011 that read 'Who is JOHN GALT' because he enjoys controversy. He detailed this in a Substack post, also arguing that Lululemon's …
Z.AI's open-weight GLM-5.2 model outperforms GPT-5.5 on the SWE-bench Pro coding benchmark, scoring 62.1 versus 58.6, while costing $1.40 per million input tokens compared to GPT-5.5's $8.00. Released under an MIT licens…
Render Network experienced negative GPU supply for the first time since 2018, as surging AI workloads and rapid onboarding consumed all available compute capacity. The decentralized platform added 60,000 GPUs in six mont…