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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…
Overland AI secured a $19.7 million U.S. Marine Corps contract on June 26, 2026, becoming the first ground-autonomy company to serve as prime contractor on a military production deal. The contract funds autonomous ground…
Software teams are adopting AI coding agents across three maturity stages—autocomplete, prompting agents, and loop engineering—often simultaneously, according to interviews with hundreds of teams. The trend is toward gra…
A new essay argues that startups should avoid creating entirely new product categories because users need to quickly understand what a product is. The author claims that most successful products are better versions of ex…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has built a nine-figure real estate portfolio with as many as 20 properties worldwide, including a $120 million former monastery in Snowmass, Colorado, and a $46 million mansion in Miami. Karp, wor…
Pilot Photonics, a Dublin-based integrated photonics firm, has been awarded €10.4 million from the European Innovation Council Accelerator to scale its patented photonic chip technology for AI data centers, satellite com…
A father spoke to a year group at his child's school about manufacturing, using his AI clock as an example to demystify the process and encourage kids to become makers. He showed prototypes, factory photos, and explained…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, touting it as its most agentic Sonnet yet with top-tier intelligence for coding and professional work. Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per …
Z.ai launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built around its GLM-5.2 model, on July 1, entering the competitive AI coding-agent market against Cursor, Claude Code, and GitHub Copilot. The tool offers an agenti…
China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security reported over 200,000 AI-related job vacancies posted by more than 5,000 internet firms during a nationwide recruitment campaign, with hiring expanding into manufac…
Oxmiq, founded by Raja Koduri, raised $35 million to develop OxCore, a licensable GPU IP built on RISC-V that enables CUDA and PyTorch code to run on non-NVIDIA hardware without modification. The company's OxPython porta…
HubSpot is challenging Salesforce for CRM dominance in 2026, with multiple vendor-comparison sites rating HubSpot ahead on usability and cost. Salesforce's Agentforce ARR reached $1.2 billion in the quarter ended April 3…
Ed-tech company Smartail Pvt. Ltd. and Nexus Innovation Hub announced a partnership on July 3, 2026 to expand AI-powered education in Andhra Pradesh using Smartail's DeepGrade automated-grading platform, which supports m…
AI freelancers are shifting from one-off project builds to retainer-based income models, charging $100–200 per user per month or €300–500 for small automation retainers, following playbooks from the managed service provi…
President Donald Trump said he expects Elon Musk to donate SpaceX stock to Trump Accounts, the US government's savings program for children, despite a 'little dispute' over electric vehicle subsidies. Trump made the rema…
Kling AI, a Chinese generative AI startup, raised $3 billion in funding at an $18 billion valuation, with Alibaba and Tencent among the backers, according to a report. The company is developing a rival to OpenAI's Sora, …
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas told Joe Rogan that the US remains the best place for startups due to its risk-seeking culture and encouragement of new ideas, despite debates over the fading American dream and immigratio…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all the lobsters died be…
SpaceX's IPO on June 12 became the highest-valued in history, raising over $75 billion and valuing the company at $2 trillion. The public offering, which includes Elon Musk's AI venture xAI, saw shares surge 19% on the f…
Microsoft is investing $2.5 billion and assigning 6,000 employees to a new venture, Microsoft Frontier Company, focused on owning and implementing AI solutions rather than selling them.