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Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inference. The story hi…
Inference startup Wafer claims it achieved 80% of Nvidia B200 performance on AMD MI355X GPUs running GLM-5.2, with 2.6x cheaper hardware, by optimizing the software stack. The benchmark, published by Wafer, shows 2626 to…
Co.Labs, a Saskatchewan startup incubator, reports that all 30 of its resident startups now use AI, with realtor-focused app Rivra built from idea to beta in nine months using tools like ChatGPT. Co-founder Caroline Gilm…
HCLTech won a $1.14 billion AI-driven IT contract from Mercedes-Benz, replacing Infosys as the incumbent vendor. The deal, running from July 2026 to December 2031, shifts from headcount-based outsourcing to an AI-automat…
StayThere.ai, a platform indexing 96,485 vacation rental listings from 3,124 host websites across 92 countries, launched to help guests book directly with property managers instead of through Airbnb. Founder built the se…
Yann LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, raised over $1 billion in seed funding for his startup AMI Labs to develop world models, an AI architecture that learns causal reasoning from raw observation rather than nex…
A wave of investment and product pivots toward world models is reshaping AI development, with Runway raising $315 million at a $5.3 billion valuation for world-model pretraining and Yann LeCun launching AMI Labs after le…
Two CNBC appearances by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and market analyst Ed Zitron outline a bearish scenario for American AI, predicting a bubble burst as customer demand fails to justify trillion-dollar data center costs, lea…
Guildly launched a retro pixel-style landing page for its AI team collaboration platform, which replaces scattered AI tools with a unified system that plans, builds, and ships projects. The platform features AI employees…
Japan has become a fast adopter of AI coding tools like Cognition AI's Devin, driven by a shrinking workforce and aging legacy infrastructure. The country faces a projected shortage of 789,000 software engineers by 2030,…
A Hacker News user complained that AI development has become boring, with everyone building the same thing, and asked for genuinely exciting AI projects. Another user replied that most exciting developments are protected…
Microsoft announced Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on AI-driven transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The company aims to help custo…
Users on Privacy Guides forum warn against using Ublock DNS, a service promoted by the same person behind the unofficial ublockorigin.com fansite, citing lack of trustworthiness and affiliation with the actual uBlock Ori…
The Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) 2026 will be held in Austin, Texas, from November 9 to 12, chaired by Yuke Zhu and Peter Stone. The event will focus on robot foundation models, real-robot reinforcement learning, …
Microsoft plans to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single app in August, cutting rarely used features like Copilot Podcasts and introducing new AI agents called 'AutoPilot' that handle background ta…
Semiconductor stocks lost 12% in two sessions while the Dow hit a record, as investors rotated from AI chip makers to enterprise software companies. A weak jobs report crushed rate-hike odds.
The browser wars have shifted from search to AI, with new entrants like Perplexity's Comet, The Browser Company's Dia, Opera's Neon, OpenAI's Atlas, and Y Combinator-backed Aside challenging Chrome and Safari by embeddin…
Top leaders from NBCUniversal, IBM, State Farm, Autodesk and Coinbase discussed marketing, tech and consumer trends at the Cannes Lions festival, highlighting AI's role in transforming workflows and reaching audiences. A…
London startup geoSurge raised $12 million in an oversubscribed Seed round led by AlbionVC on July 3, 2026, to secure brand visibility within AI models. The company's Corpus Engineering method targets how large language …
A new analysis from FutureSearch counts 57 AI billionaires worldwide with a combined net worth of $320 billion, led by Cambricon Technologies' Chen Tianshi at $40 billion, OpenAI president Greg Brockman at $28 billion, a…