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Independent evaluation startups fail because talent is better compensated in post-training and application development, the customer base is too narrow, and model optimization pressure renders evals obsolete. The market …
Radical Numerics, an AI lab spun out from Stanford, emerged from stealth with $50 million in seed funding and released Omnii, a genome language model for researchers. The company aims to decode the 'grammar of DNA' to ac…
Elon Musk compared SpaceX to Union Pacific in a recent investor presentation, but the historical railroad company was heavily subsidized by taxpayers and embroiled in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, undermining Musk's point…
Insilico Medicine and SK Biopharmaceuticals announced a partnership valued at over $2.5 billion to use AI for developing neuroimmune therapies. Insilico will leverage its Pharma.AI platform for drug discovery, while SK B…
AI chipmaker Groq confirmed a $650 million funding round led by Disruptive and Infinitum, six months after Nvidia signed a non-exclusive licensing deal for its technology and poached key talent including founder Jonathan…
Cursor has acquired Continue, an open-source coding assistant and alternative to GitHub Copilot, in a move that consolidates the AI developer tools market. The acquisition brings Continue's open-source platform under Cur…
Bear Robotics acquired Kinisi Robotics to integrate its KR1 humanoid robot and physical AI capabilities, completing Bear's end-to-end physical AI robotics platform. The acquisition reunites Bear with co-founder Brennand …
Google's stock fell after top AI scientists defected to OpenAI and Anthropic, raising concerns about talent retention and competitive positioning in the AI race.
AI startup Micro AGI is sending college-educated workers to clean New York City apartments for free under its Shift initiative, capturing video footage to train robots for household chores. The company aims to collect tr…
Paul Bakaus launched Renaissance Geek, the company behind Impeccable, with backing from a16z led by Anish Acharya and a new partnership with GitHub. Impeccable is an open-source design skill for AI coding agents that has…
Micron is investing in Anthropic's Series H round and securing a multi-year deal to supply memory for Claude's infrastructure, aiming to co-design AI memory architecture. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown emphasized memory'…
Open source AI startup Reflection AI will pay SpaceX $150 million per month through 2029 for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at SpaceX's Colossus 2 data center, in a deal worth up to $6.3 billion. The agreement, one of the …
Lime, the electric scooter company backed by Uber and Alphabet, filed to go public with updated SEC documents revealing $886.7 million in 2025 revenue but seasonal losses in Q1 2026, highlighting the challenges of the on…
SpaceX shares have plummeted from a post-IPO high of $225 to around $170, wiping out gains for investors who bought near the peak. The decline follows a merger with Musk's AI startup xAI, which added debt and controversy…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led Prosper AI's $30 million Series A funding round. Prosper AI provides an AI-native platform that automates voice-heavy healthcare administrative tasks such as appointment scheduling, insuran…
Eco Wave Power, an NVIDIA Inception member, uses NVIDIA AI infrastructure and digital twins to convert ocean wave energy into clean electricity. The technology leverages existing marine structures and AI-driven optimizat…
Digital nomads can form a US LLC remotely without a US address or SSN, gaining access to payment processors like Stripe and US banking through fintechs. Wyoming, Delaware, and New Mexico are top state choices, each with …
OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing to go public, potentially converting nearly $1 trillion in combined private valuations into stock-market windfalls for employees. Employees face timing, tax, and liquidity decisions aro…
The first AI-focused super PAC, Leading the Future, has failed spectacularly after less than a year, unable to replicate the success of crypto PAC Fairshake. Funded by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowi…
The AI industry's focus on token cost or quality alone is misguided, advocating instead for a 'Value For Money' philosophy that balances cost, quality, and risk. It critiques current trends like 'TokenMaxxing' and token …