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CNBC host Jim Cramer said Accenture is being outcompeted by OpenAI and Anthropic, as AI labs move into enterprise consulting. Anthropic's confidential IPO filing intensifies competitive pressure on traditional consulting…
Shoe company Allbirds is changing its name to Smartbird and pivoting to AI infrastructure, appointing former AWS quantum computing head Nadia Carlsten as CEO. The company sold its manufacturing equipment and laid off ret…
KKR launched Helix Digital Infrastructure on June 11 with over $10 billion in backing from KKR, Kuwait Investment Authority, Nvidia, and Vistra to address AI's power bottleneck. Vistra, a major US power producer, was sel…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos argued that artificial intelligence will create more jobs than it replaces, citing productivity gains leading to labor scarcity rather than mass unemployment. He made the comments during a CNBC …
Y Combinator and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to give YC founders building on Azure access to Microsoft Foundry and high-performance AI infrastructure, including GPU resources, startup credits, technical gui…
Trellis AI, a YC W24 graduate, is hiring a product lead to build AI agents that accelerate patient access to life-saving therapies by automating administrative workflows like prior authorizations and appeals. The company…
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel unveiled SPECS, the company's long-awaited augmented reality glasses, at Augmented World Expo, arguing they represent a new era of computing beyond smartphones. Spiegel explained that Snap spent ove…
OVHcloud acquired Dragon LLM, a Paris-based startup specializing in generative AI for regulated industries, and launched a dedicated AI lab to build sovereign large language models. The move positions the French cloud pr…
The US Department of Commerce awarded a $500 million grant to SandboxAQ, an AI startup spun out of Alphabet, to discover new chipmaking materials under the CHIPS Act. The company will use AI to find alternatives to toxic…
Arcade.dev raised $60 million in Series A funding led by SYN Ventures, with participation from Morgan Stanley and Wipro, to develop an authorization layer that controls what enterprise AI agents are allowed to do. The st…
Meta's head of product for its AI for Work initiative has left the company amid a sweeping restructuring that will lay off 8,000 employees and reassign 7,000 to AI roles. The departure adds leadership turbulence to Meta'…
SpaceX shares fell as much as 4.7% on Wednesday, snapping a three-day rally that had pushed the stock nearly 50% above its $135 IPO price. The decline threatens to drop the company below Amazon in market value rankings, …
A developer building the productivity app NYN (Greek for 'now') is shifting the focus from endless to-do lists to time-driven tasks. The app enforces strict time blocks so only the current task is visible, aiming to redu…
Midjourney is revealing its first hardware project at a live event in San Francisco on June 17, 2025, with a livestream available for remote viewers. CEO David Holz, who previously co-founded Leap Motion, is leading the …
AI startup Aaru, cofounded by 21-year-old Ned Koh, accurately simulated nearly 2 million New York voters in the city's primary mayoral election, coming within 2,000 votes of the final count. The company uses AI agents bu…
Odyssey ML raised $310 million in Series B funding at a $1.45 billion valuation, with Amazon, Natural Capital, AMD Ventures, GV, EQT, and In-Q-Tel participating. The deal names AWS as Odyssey's preferred cloud provider a…
SpaceX shares fell below $200 on Wednesday, dropping to the high $180s after peaking at $222 on Tuesday following its IPO. The decline reignites concerns about overvaluation, as the company burns billions annually and fa…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted at the VivaTech conference in Paris that artificial intelligence will create labor shortages rather than replace humans, arguing that AI will lower barriers to human productivity. Bezo…
Poland's state development bank BGK, through its venture arm Vinci, acquired an $11 million stake in AI-voice company ElevenLabs, valued at $11 billion, and launched AI Lab Poland to support domestic AI startups. The mov…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says fear of failure is 'the stupidest thing' holding people back, urging a focus on offense and risk-taking. Srinivas, who grew up in a lower-middle-class family in India, co-founded the …