AI Startups

A developer built a novel triple-hybrid LLM combining Mamba, Attention, and a 32-expert Mixture of Experts architecture from scratch for approximately $50, completing Titan v1 and the first training cycle of Titan v2. Th…

ASE Technology Holding, the world's largest outsourced chip assembly and test provider, announced plans to build 15 new facilities across Taiwan and Malaysia to meet surging AI chip demand. The company has revised its LE…

Animoca Brands cofounder Yat Siu predicted at the SuperAI summit in Singapore that Asia will lead the convergence of AI and blockchain, citing the region's less politically charged financial environment. He projected up …

South Korea's government is in talks with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix about building a second chip cluster, driven by explosive AI demand that could require new fab construction by 2034-2035. Presidential adviser Ki…

SK Hynix, South Korea's top memory chipmaker, plans to raise up to $33 billion through new depositary receipts and a US listing as early as August 2026 to fund AI chip production. The company filed for American Depositar…

Startup founders are increasingly older, solo, and non-technical, with 61% solo and 78% technical, according to the State of Startups 2026 survey of over 2,000 builders. AI adoption surged: 62% of startups have over half…

Wonderful, a Netherlands-based enterprise AI agent platform backed by $300 million in funding, expanded its Singapore operations and appointed Alexander Kleinberg as General Manager. The move aims to help enterprises mov…

Blue Owl is preparing to sell Stack Infrastructure's Asia-Pacific data center business for about $30 billion, with BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners, Macquarie, and IFM Investors as likely bidders. The valuation…

Bitcoin faces a turbulent summer as institutional capital rotates into AI stocks and tech IPOs, with spot Bitcoin ETFs recording their second-largest three-week outflow streak of 62,794 BTC. K33 Research analyst Vetle Lu…

US technology stocks lost $1.3 trillion in market value on June 5, 2026, after Broadcom's fiscal Q2 earnings guidance miss triggered a sector-wide selloff. Broadcom projected $16 billion in AI chip sales for Q3, below th…

South Korea's KOSPI index plunged 9.99% on June 23, triggering circuit breakers, as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics dropped over 12% amid doubts about the AI-driven rally. The KOSPI had surged more than 100% year-to-dat…

ByteDance is seeking a $20 billion offshore loan to fund an AI infrastructure buildout, nearly doubling its previous record, as the TikTok parent pivots from social media to competing with OpenAI. The company has committ…

Michael Kassan, founder and CEO of 3C Ventures, discussed AI disruption and the evolving media landscape at Cannes Lions, emphasizing the need for leaders to navigate interconnected changes in technology, consumer behavi…

Amazon dropped Luca Guadagnino's Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' after striking a $15 billion partnership with OpenAI, Altman's company. The film, which portrays Altman unsympathetically, will be shopped to other studios.

Rivvun AI, a Seattle-based startup founded in 2026, has raised $7.55M in seed funding led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital for its autonomous agentic execution layer that detects and corrects P&L leakage in real time.…

KT launched an AI Innovation Hub in Seoul to help enterprises move beyond AI pilot projects and achieve measurable business results. The facility provides an end-to-end AI development environment where corporate clients …

Hydrix has been engaged by US-based Quantanosis Ai to support the preliminary development of a next-generation robotic stroke treatment platform that combines advanced robotics, artificial intelligence, and histotripsy u…

Niteshift.dev, founded in 2025 by ex-Datadog engineers and launched in June 2026, provides a full-stack cloud platform that supplies isolated, production-like environments for AI coding agents to run autonomous workflows…

Greek robotics startup Acumino raised $11.7 million in seed funding to scale commercial deployments of its hardware-agnostic physical AI for dexterous industrial automation tasks. The company was selected by Google DeepM…

Orel Zilberman, solo builder of WriteStack, spent 599 days building ten products that earned nothing before focusing on one tool for Substack creators, which became a six-figure business. He discusses how AI accelerated …