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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.
Midjourney released a behind-the-scenes video of its dunk-tank ultrasound scanner, but the tour offered little evidence to support the company's claims of transforming medicine. The video, hosted by a tech YouTuber who i…
Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced a forthcoming Muse Spark update, codenamed Watermelon, with major improvements in coding and agentic capabilities, aiming to close the gap with rival AI platforms. The upda…
Bridgewater Associates and Thinking Machines Lab fine-tuned a Qwen3-235B model for financial tasks, achieving 84.7% accuracy and outperforming GPT, Claude, and Gemini at roughly one-fourteenth the cost. The results have …
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move follows an internal push to ramp up AI use, with Tesla launching a platform called Bottle Rocket that includes m…
GMKtec launched the EVO-X3 AI Workstation, powered by the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor, targeting developers and AI professionals for local AI workloads. The compact desktop is now available globally, with reservation…
SpaceX's IPO last month raised $86 billion, but 95% of shares are locked in an unusually complex schedule with 15 release dates, designed to prevent a market flood. Experts call it one of the most complicated lock-ups ev…
Paystone, a London, Ontario-based payment processing company, filed for creditor protection in early June amid severe financial difficulties, seeking court approval for a debt restructuring and sale to a company controll…
China's quantitative fund industry ended 2025 managing 3.22 trillion yuan ($474 billion), rebounding from a 2024 low after regulators cracked down on high-frequency trading. Over 60% of quant funds now use AI or machine …
AI infrastructure startup Crusoe is in talks to raise about $3 billion at a valuation of roughly $30 billion, tripling its previous valuation, as the race to build AI infrastructure intensifies.
SAP is restricting hiring and travel spending to fund its AI transformation, focusing new hires on AI roles and suspending non-AI-related internal travel. The company is prioritizing AI investments while cutting costs el…
Kuaishou's AI video division Kling raised $2 billion from investors including CPE, Tencent, and Citic Securities, valuing the unit at $18 billion. The funding round supports Kling's planned spinoff and IPO on the Hong Ko…
Microsoft announced a $2.5 billion investment in a new business unit, Microsoft Frontier, to help enterprise customers adopt AI tools and demonstrate return on investment. The unit will employ 6,000 forward-deployed engi…
ElevenLabs is in early talks with investors for a secondary share sale that would value the London-based AI company at $22 billion, doubling its valuation from five months ago.
The AI Engineer World's Fair concluded with a debate on the viability of autonomous software factories, pitting advocates like Geoffrey Huntley and Ian Livingstone against skeptics Dex Horthy and Greg Pstrucha. Anthropic…
Yann LeCun's AMI Labs raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion valuation to build AI systems that understand the physical world, arguing that current large language models cannot achieve human-level intelligence. The Paris…
Kuaishou's AI video generation business Kling AI raised nearly $3 billion in external funding on July 2, with a post-money valuation of $18 billion. The round was co-led by CPE, Guofang Venture Capital, BlueFive, Tencent…