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Silicon Valley executives have successfully promoted the narrative of an AI race with China to advance their policy agenda in Washington, according to a forthcoming academic paper. The tech industry's campaign, including…
Anthropic is in talks to raise up to $50 billion at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, with Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners at the table. The company has projected $45 billion in annualized…
Hyperscalers Amazon and Google reported that "other income" accounted for more than a third of their net income in the first quarter, driven by unrealized gains from private market investments totaling roughly $53 billio…
Elon Musk’s xAI has reportedly struck a deal with rival Anthropic, a move that signals Musk’s company is not leading the artificial intelligence race. The agreement suggests xAI is seeking external partnerships rather th…
Glama lists over 22,000 MCP servers, PulseMCP tracks 14,000+, and mcp.so and other registries add thousands more, but a handful of well-chosen servers composed thoughtfully outperform a full stack for startup teams. The …
Elon Musk, through SpaceX, has granted Anthropic exclusive access to the Colossus 1 data center's entire compute capacity—over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs—to run Claude AI models, effectively making him a kingmaker in the AI rac…
Intercom announced Fin for Ecommerce, an AI shopping assistant that handles sales and customer service across the full customer journey, from product discovery to post-purchase support. The tool, which integrates with ex…
Mozilla AI released Octonous into open beta, making the AI assistant available to all users without a waitlist. The company incorporated feedback from its closed beta, shipping improvements including expanded integration…
Developers seeking alternatives to Windsurf in 2026 are primarily motivated by pricing predictability, local-first workflows, and access to real agent engines like Claude Code or Codex. Nimbalyst leads as the top alterna…
A new report from Ably, based on interviews with 38 companies building AI products at scale and evaluations of 37 vendors, finds that the primary obstacle to deploying AI agents in production is not model capability but …
Winston Weinberg, CEO and co-founder of AI platform Harvey, discussed how artificial intelligence is reshaping legal work and why human judgment becomes more valuable as routine tasks are automated. Weinberg shared the o…
Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to take over all of Colossus 1, a deal estimated at $5 billion per year, making xAI a neocloud provider. At its second annual developer event, the company also reported 8,000…
PostHog customers deployed AI agents to resolve 4,063 errors, suppress 1,751 known noise issues, and route 310 errors to the correct team over 30 days, with almost none of the agents opening the PostHog user interface to…
In five days, Anthropic grew its Q1 revenue 80-fold to a reported $44 billion annual run rate, committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financi…
The AI industry is sustaining itself through a circular financial structure in which major cloud providers invest billions in startups like Anthropic and OpenAI, which then commit hundreds of billions in cloud spending b…
Sam Altman and Greg Brockman appeared in their first joint media interview in 10 years, a 90-minute podcast on Core Memory, covering OpenAI's history, the Elon Musk trial, and a product strategy that analysts have misrea…
Venture capital firm a16z is leading a Series A investment in Ethos, a startup building AI-powered infrastructure to match workers with professional opportunities. The company uses AI voice agents to capture users' exper…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has selected 65 fellows for the inaugural cohort of its Growth Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week program for growth engineers and AI-native leaders. The fellows, who come from companies including …
Sendbird co-founder and CEO John Kim transformed his company into an AI-native organization by building an internal platform called Automators, where non-technical teams built a fully functional e-commerce swag store wit…
Anthropic and OpenAI announced separate joint ventures with major financial firms to build AI-powered services companies, with Anthropic raising $1.5 billion from Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, and Op…