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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…
Tencent is joining a reported $3 billion funding round for Kuaishou's AI video generation platform Kling AI, which is expected to be valued at $18 billion. Kuaishou plans to spin off Kling AI and launch an IPO as early a…
Granola, an AI notepad, helps sales and investment professionals capture high-quality leads at networking events by converting rough shorthand into structured CRM records without interrupting conversations. The tool uses…
Gartner predicts 40% of enterprise applications will feature task-specific AI agents by 2026, up from under 5% in 2025, while over 40% of agentic AI projects are expected to be canceled by end of 2027 due to inadequate d…
Dawnguard raised $3.3 million in pre-seed extension funding on July 1, bringing total funding to over $6.3 million, as the company launched its security architecture automation platform and opened a New York office. The …
A developer relations professional at an AI coding startup attended 23 developer events in six months, interacting with over 3,000 developers. Key observations include a wide AI literacy gap, bottom-up adoption of AI too…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake worth about $42.6 billion, with CEO Sam Altman pitching the idea to President Trump and top officials. The plan aims to democratize AI's economic benefits and inc…
Straiker appointed Sriram Puthucode as chief revenue officer three days after announcing a $64 million Series A, tapping the former Zscaler and Palo Alto Networks executive to turn early AI-agent security demand into glo…