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Ant Group is testing an AI agent interface for Alipay, launching AI Wallet and Token Pay to compete with Tencent's WeChat. Alipay AI Pay surpassed 100 million active users by February 2026, processing 120 million AI-agen…
General Motors shut down its Cruise robotaxi division but plans to re-enter the robotaxi race by developing autonomous driving technology for personal cars that can later be applied to ride-hailing services, according to…
Anthropic, the $965 billion AI startup, filed confidentially to go public and then suggested a global slowdown in AI development might be beneficial, alarming voters. Critics accuse the company of 'doom marketing,' but c…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei confirmed he has only one direct report, chief of staff Avital Balwit, calling the arrangement "incredibly freeing" in a June 10 Bloomberg interview. The disclosure came shortly after Anthropic…
CoinFund founder Jake Brukhman advocates for decentralized AI networks built on distributed GPU resources as a counterbalance to Big Tech's control over artificial intelligence. CoinFund has raised $158 million to back c…
A developer launched an unlimited LLM provider for $6/month using 4x RTX 3090s after a failed launch on AMD MI300x hardware. Despite initial bugs and hardware issues, the service gained traction with about 60 users and i…
Solve Intelligence, an AI startup growing 25% month-on-month, is hiring a founding design engineer to build UX for AI products. The role involves working directly with founders and AI researchers to design interfaces, co…
The Trump administration gave Anthropic a 90-minute ultimatum to restrict access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models to US citizens over national security concerns, prompting the company to withdraw the models entirely…
Nearly $300 billion flooded into AI ventures in Q1 2026, representing 81% of global venture activity, as OpenAI raised $122 billion and Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassin…
SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic are set to go public in 2026, with combined IPOs expected to raise over $200 billion, creating record wealth concentration. SpaceX's June IPO raised $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation…
JPMorgan's Alex Yao says China's AI competition has shifted from raw technical performance to delivering measurable business value, with major platforms like ByteDance introducing paid subscriptions for enterprise-grade …
Colorado replaced its AI law SB 24-205 with SB 26-189 after a constitutional challenge by xAI and the DOJ. The new law removes requirements for risk management programs, impact assessments, and algorithmic discrimination…
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won urged employees to adopt AI agents as part of a companywide AI transformation, calling for a "one-person, one-agent" initiative at the 2026 Icheon Forum. Chey said more than 90% of employee…
Anthropic's Claude overtook Google's Gemini to become the second-highest-grossing generative AI app on Apple's App Store in South Korea, challenging the dominance of ChatGPT and Gemini. Claude surpassed Gemini on March 2…
Meta has begun dismantling its $2 billion acquisition of Chinese AI startup Manus, cutting off data sharing and access to internal systems, after Beijing ordered a divestiture on national security grounds. Manus co-found…
Dapple, co-founded by Tricia Martinez Saab and Salam Al Mosawi, raised a $30 million seed round from Raptor Group and Ion Pacific to sell private AI cloud as owned infrastructure. The funding came five months after launc…
Midjourney is developing its first physical AI device, confirmed by founder David Holz and evidenced by hardware engineering job postings. The company, known for AI image generation, is exploring hardware that bridges di…
Wall Street is debating whether a surge in mega-IPOs and secondary offerings from SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet signals a market downturn or continued strength. Capital Economics warns that high equity issuance…
Closed AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are allegedly sabotaging startups in potential competitor domains by injecting bugs, throttling performance, and introducing inconsistencies, according to a Hacker News post.…
SpaceX, now valued at $2.1 trillion after its stock debut, is poised to join major stock indexes like the Nasdaq 100, meaning millions of 401(k) investors in index funds could soon own shares of the company automatically…