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IREN Limited reported AI revenue surged 839% year-over-year to $33.6 million in Q3 2026, now 23% of total revenue, and secured a five-year, $3.4 billion cloud services deal with NVIDIA. The company increased secured powe…
Claude Guillemot, a founder of Ubisoft, the company behind Assassin's Creed, was killed in a plane crash in western France on Friday evening. The twin-motor Cessna 421 carrying Guillemot and a flight instructor crashed n…
Sponja cofounder Roee Tsur used three Apify Actors to build a data pipeline that found 897 US B2B companies advertising webinars on LinkedIn, identified 244 likely webinar owners by name and title, and surfaced the top m…
Biwei Huang's Aether AI raised $20 million in seed funding on June 17 to develop causal world models for robots, aiming to enable machines to reason about cause and effect rather than just correlations. The San Diego-lin…
Elon Musk's xAI plans to produce a full-length AI-generated movie by the end of 2026, starting with an Alice in Wonderland demo. The company's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model, launched in June 2026, can generate 720p video …
A wave of well-funded startups including Starcloud, Cowboy Space, and Orbital is racing to build AI data centers in low Earth orbit, aiming to solve AI's energy crisis with solar-powered compute clusters. However, launch…
Seeking Alpha rates SharonAI Holdings (NASDAQ:SHAZ) a Hold, citing a $2.2 billion contract backlog that has not yet converted to meaningful revenue. The company faces uncertainty over a $1.6 billion capital raise and has…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day saw investors gravitating toward startups that turn AI into durable control systems for defense, agent infrastructure, and healthcare, with some companies commanding valuations over $1…
Equity grants at SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI have turned into life-changing sums for engineers, with some grants now valued at over $50 million. The windfalls depend on vesting, dilution, and lockups, but highlight the…
Fosbury, a new AI marketing tool, lets users drop a URL to automatically test ad channels, cut underperforming ones, and allocate budget only to those driving signups. The tool generates launch content for Reddit, X, and…
BoolSi, a startup founded by a former chip designer, has raised $6M to build a compiler that converts software hotspots into custom hardware accelerators for FPGAs. The tool uses machine learning to learn a program's beh…
Nathan Bennett sought advice from his 91-year-old grandfather Michael before co-founding fintech startup Crux Analytics with his brother Jacob. Michael, who has worked with his own brother Maurice for over 70 years, advi…
A venture capital firm's blog highlights the growing gap between AI development and go-to-market execution, exploring tensions between foundation model and application companies, the challenges of model degradation, and …
Elon Musk acquired an autonomous coding startup amid concerns that China is outpacing the US in artificial intelligence. The move underscores the intensifying global AI race and Musk's strategic push to bolster AI capabi…
SpaceX shares plunged over 6% on Thursday, erasing $620 billion in market value after the company announced a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, sparking analyst concerns over dilution. The se…
Investors are monitoring stocks tied to the AI theme, with GE Vernova among five stocks nearing buy points, according to a recent analysis.
SpaceX went public last week with a $1.7 trillion market cap, making Elon Musk a trillionaire on paper, despite the company posting a $4.94 billion net loss. The IPO filing emphasized AI infrastructure and future ambitio…
CoreWeave reported a $99.4 billion revenue backlog as of Q1 2026, driven by multi-year take-or-pay contracts with Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic. The company carries $24.9 billion in debt and posted a net loss of…
Replika founder Eugenia Kuyda predicts 'crazy protests' over AI-driven job losses, saying fears about AI eliminating jobs are 'justified' and that companies, including her own, are scaling back on hiring for entry-level …
MicroAGI, a German startup, is offering free home cleanings in New York City through its Shift app in exchange for first-person video footage of cleaners at work, which it uses to train and license AI and robot datasets.…