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SpaceX raised $75 billion in the largest initial public offering in history on Thursday, surpassing all previous IPO records. The company, led by Elon Musk, posted a $4.94 billion loss in 2025 on $18.7 billion in revenue…
A cross-platform AI assistant called OpenClaw has amassed 360,000 GitHub stars in Asian developer communities while remaining largely unknown in the West. Built primarily for game developers, the Rust and JavaScript proj…
Ukraine launched a "Logistics Lockdown" campaign using AI-guided Hornet kamikaze drones, developed by US company Swift Beat LLC with backing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to strike Russian fuel tankers, convoys, a…
A solo developer launched Manob, a social media platform that replaces algorithmic feeds with chronological timelines and incorporates built-in fact-checking and bias detection. The platform does not run ads, track user …
Keshav Reddy's Equal AI secured $30 million in Series B funding to develop an AI call assistant for Indian consumers. The startup, founded in 2022, initially focused on data sharing for financial services before pivoting…
An 18-year-old BTech computer science student in India built XEdge, an AI tool discovery platform, entirely solo and with zero budget over four months while attending college. The project has attracted 500 users, curated…
Avataar AI, a startup selected for India's $1.2 billion India AI Mission, launched a new video generation model called Varya that is 10 times faster and 20 times cheaper than competitors like Veo and Runway. The model, b…
Inithouse, a studio running an AI photo animation tool across five country domains from a single codebase, encountered significant technical and localization pitfalls during development. The team faced issues including b…
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, told Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference on June 10, 2026, that the company prioritizes hiring generalists, candidates with low ego, and empiricists. Cherny said the compa…
Sophia NLU v1.2, an on-device, low-compute natural language engine built in Rust, now runs voice assistants without internet or a GPU, using only 160MB of RAM. The upgrade adds entity clarification, state persistence, an…
South Korea's Hanmi Semiconductor announced Friday it plans to acquire 50 billion won ($32.9 million) in SpaceX shares ahead of the U.S. space company's stock market debut. The investment, representing about 7.24 percent…
COOCON joined the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver Member on June 1, planning to participate in working groups on AI agent payments and data businesses built on the Model Context Protocol. AAIF, an open-source co…
Gravy launched a CLI-based ad marketplace for Claude Code that pays developers 70% of revenue for displaying sponsored lines in their terminal status bar. The platform operates entirely through the command line, with pay…
By early 2026, "vibe coding" — describing software in natural language and accepting AI-generated output — had become a mainstream development workflow, with Collins Dictionary naming it Word of the Year and tools like L…
A developer built an AI agent that automatically converts its USDC earnings into fiat currency deposited to a bank account, using the x402 payment protocol and FiatDock service. The agent sells API calls for tiny USDC pa…
The Nasdaq-100 will add CoreWeave, Rocket Lab, Astera Labs, Nebius Group, and Teradyne to its flagship index effective June 22, replacing Charter Communications, Cognizant, Insmed, Verisk Analytics, and Zscaler. The quar…
Rajit Khanna is transforming PrismVideos from an AI media creation product into an agent infrastructure provider after the company replaced its custom media agent with a hosted Hermes setup and began offering the same ar…
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation in a round that included JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global and Arch Venture Par…
A developer has built SwiPR, a tool that transforms GitHub pull request review into a swipe-based interface with AI context, addressing the bottleneck of PR review in an era of increased code creation. The tool, which wo…
AI robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A funding round, led by CRV and backed by Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, to build reconfigurable factory robots designed for multiple tasks rather than single-pu…