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HFCL Ltd. shares surged nearly 200% in six months as investors bet on India's data-centre expansion and AI-related capital expenditure. The company reported FY26 consolidated revenue of Rs 4,949 crore and secured a major…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an internal company-wide AI hackathon scheduled for July 14-16, aiming to revive hacker culture. Employees, many of whom absorbed workloads after roughly 8,000 recent layoffs, expressed…
Amazon has invested in Archetype AI, a startup developing a physical-world simulation model called Newton, through its Industrial Innovation Fund. The tech giant also partnered with NVIDIA and MassRobotics to launch the …
SpaceX has acquired Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding agent Cursor, to build a proprietary AI coding agent model. The deal signals a shift toward vertical integration in developer tools, with plans to deepen model tr…
China's securities regulator is pushing artificial intelligence companies to list on domestic and Hong Kong exchanges, reshaping capital-raising for the tech sector. Over 85% of Chinese AI-related IPOs in 2026 landed on …
Baillie Gifford is poised to more than triple its investment in Anthropic when the AI company goes public this summer, just months after netting a £3.6bn gain from SpaceX's IPO. The Scottish investment firm's three flags…
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a June 17 Real-Time Age…
Visa and Mastercard have announced AI agent payment capabilities, but these solutions are retrofits of legacy card infrastructure, not true autonomous payment systems. Catena Labs, founded by Circle co-founder Sean Nevil…
A Hacker News user asks how likely it is that SpaceX buys OpenAI, suggesting the idea could inflate SpaceX's stock and provide an exit for OpenAI. Another user dismisses the possibility as zero given the personalities in…
SoftBank Group is struggling to find Latin American startups ready for major investments, completing only two new deals in the past two years as the region's tech boom cools. Managing partner Alex Szapiro said it is hard…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, minting four MIT classmates in their mid-20s as multibillionaires. Each co-founder owns about 9% of Cursor, worth $5.5 billion, as t…
OpenAI's ChatGPT lost its majority share of the AI assistant market for the first time, dropping to 46.4% as of May 31, according to Sensor Tower data. The decline follows OpenAI's controversial Pentagon deal, a shift to…
A developer created a free alternative to Crunchbase by using AI agents to research startups and compile detailed profiles, addressing the $49/month cost barrier. The platform includes measures to reduce AI hallucination…
The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced plans to use public-sector procurement of AI systems to boost domestic AI hardware companies, citing the AI Research Resource supercomputer and AI Growth…
HSBC announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Google Cloud to deploy artificial intelligence across its global operations, targeting roughly 200 new AI initiatives over two years, each expected to generate over …
A developer at the lablab Band of Agents Hackathon is building an AI-powered invoice collection system for small businesses. After identifying a gap in the market for handling overdue payments in the $2,000-$20,000 range…
A nine-person team at Chinese social media company Sina Weibo developed VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter language model that matches the reasoning performance of flagship AI models hundreds of times larger, scoring …
The US government has declined to add Chinese AI firm DeepSeek to its trade blacklists despite documented national security concerns, state-level bans, and congressional legislation. Federal officials say there is 'nothi…
Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika and Wabi, says AI has made hiring junior engineers too expensive for startups, predicting job losses and protests. She argues that AI tools like Wabi's vibe-coding app will replace many …
Databricks reported $6.9 billion in annualized recurring revenue, up 80% year over year, widening its lead over Snowflake to $1.6 billion. AI products now account for $1.7 billion of Databricks' ARR, driving its growth a…