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OpenAI proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in AI labs, including itself and Anthropic, to create a sovereign wealth fund worth an estimated $600 billion. The plan faces significant hurdles, as investors are un…
Byrne Hobart predicts that AI labs will briefly operate as neoclouds, offering compute capacity to outsiders before pivoting, in a 2026 essay that also covers FDE crunch, Fable, egg futures, IBM's evolution, and surtaxes…
Microsoft launched a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier Company on Thursday, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts, to deliver enterprise AI deployments. The venture, which resists the Forwa…
SpaceX showed investors a prototype of a new AI-integrated device, a handset slimmer than an iPhone running on a proprietary SpaceX operating system, to boost interest ahead of its IPO. The device, which uses Qualcomm Sn…
BlackBerry reported Q1 revenue of $152.9 million, up 26% year-over-year, and EPS of 4 cents, beating estimates. The company's QNX operating system is now in 275 million cars and expanding into robotics, drones, and medic…
Australian startup Springboards has launched Flint, an LLM trained to generate more diverse responses to open-ended questions, addressing the predictability and lack of creativity in mainstream chatbots like ChatGPT and …
Luxonis raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Denali Growth Partners to scale production of its OAK cameras and advance its physical AI perception layer. The company plans to expand commercial operations, R&D, an…
Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian AI, discusses the departure of lab builders from the AI industry in an interview with Open Source CEO. The interview explores the shifting landscape of AI research and developmen…
India, through a hackathon backed by Bhashini, Current AI, and Kalpa Impact, is challenging Silicon Valley's centralized AI model by inviting startups to build affordable, offline, multilingual AI devices for classrooms,…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has proposed that the US government take a five percent stake in OpenAI and other leading AI companies, including Google, Anthropic, xAI, and Meta, to share the benefits of AI with the public. The p…
Italian startup Ganiga and Dublin-based Montro showcased practical AI applications at Dublin Tech Summit 2026, with Ganiga using AI and robotics to improve waste management at airports and offices, and Montro offering a …
SpaceX reportedly showed investors an early prototype of a slim AI device running a proprietary operating system and integrating xAI technology, according to the Wall Street Journal. Elon Musk denied the report, calling …
Indian entrepreneur Bhavin Turakhia is investing $30 million of his own money to launch Neo, an enterprise work platform designed from scratch for the AI era. Neo combines project management, documents, file storage, and…
OpenAI has proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake worth $42.6 billion to ease political pressure, with CEO Sam Altman arguing it shares AI's benefits. The plan, discussed since early 2025, would create a g…
Google Cloud launched its first Africa Cloud Summit in Johannesburg, announcing new AI and infrastructure investments including a Digital Exchange Port in South Africa, Africa's first Applied AI Lab in Ghana, and expande…
SoftBank Group Corp. completed a $10 billion second tranche investment in OpenAI through Vision Fund 2 on July 1, 2026, as part of a $30 billion follow-on commitment. The funding supports OpenAI's infrastructure expansio…
NVIDIA launched a new business model enabling AI clouds to procure its infrastructure through revenue-sharing and credit-support, accelerating access to large-scale accelerated computing for startups, model builders, and…
Hyperscalers like Meta and Oracle are investing heavily in AI data center infrastructure while acknowledging significant financial risks. Oracle's SEC filing warns of potential cost overruns and delays, while Meta report…
Roland Gavrilescu, co-founder of Introspection, introduced the concept of autoresearch at the AI Engineer World's Fair, describing a feedback loop where AI agents maintain and improve systems using signals, evals, and hu…
Databricks announced the winners of the 2026 Built-On Databricks Startup Challenge, naming VisionHeight as the Grand Prize Winner for its agentic threat intelligence platform, with Linkup and Intelo also recognized. The …