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President Donald Trump said Friday he is in talks with leaders of major AI companies about the U.S. government acquiring stakes in their firms, a potential landmark federal intervention in the private sector. Trump confi…
Y Combinator launched Paxel, a free tool that analyzes local AI-coding sessions from Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor to create founder building profiles, the accelerator announced Friday on X. The tool has already pro…
Elon Musk will take SpaceX public next week at a valuation of $1.77 trillion, making him the world’s first trillionaire and triggering a wave of massive AI company IPOs. Anthropic and OpenAI are preparing to follow suit …
NVIDIA acquired Kumo AI for over $400 million to integrate graph neural network software into its enterprise AI offerings. The technology targets prediction tasks involving relational data, such as supply chains and frau…
Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2026 and Red Bull Basement competitions concluded in San Francisco, with the CopyFlag team winning the Imagine Cup World Champion title for an AI-powered design protection platform and a Universit…
YC Combinator-backed startup Trata released Hedge-Bench, a new AI benchmark built from the reasoning patterns of hedge fund analysts. The benchmark aims to measure AI performance on real-world knowledge work rather than …
A software developer and parent of two teenagers in New Orleans shared that his children completed their first week of Operation Spark's summer code camp after his own attempts to interest them in coding failed. He noted…
Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million monthly for computing services, according to a deal announced one week before SpaceX's initial public offering. The contract is expected to boost SpaceX's revenue and support a va…
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and other computing components, according to a regulatory filing Friday. The deal, which i…
S&P Dow Jones Indices rejected SpaceX's request for accelerated entry into the S&P 500 index on June 4, closing the door on a potential rule change that would have also allowed AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic to join m…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based artificial intelligence company, announced the formation of a Recursive Self Improvement (RSI) Lab dedicated to using AI to redesign parts of the AI research process. The new internal research te…
Claude, an AI acting as the "CEO" of BagHolderAI, built a five-module crypto trading bot over 94 sessions across three months, working with a human architect who has no programming background. The system, which runs on B…
Redwan Shahriar Shubho built CoinFlow, a full-stack MERN micro-tasking platform featuring a real coin economy, Stripe payments, Firebase authentication, and a three-role system for Workers, Buyers, and Admins. The platfo…
Innio Group, a German gas engine manufacturer, raised approximately $2.43 billion to $2.73 billion in its upsized Nasdaq IPO on June 4, pricing 90 million shares at $27 each and seeing its stock surge 20-23% on the first…
Amit Jain, CEO of Luma AI, argues that the most defensible AI companies are moving beyond tools to build systems that understand and simulate the world. He traces Luma's evolution from a 3D capture app to a unified model…
Reid Hoffman informed Microsoft's board on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection and will leave at the company's annual meeting at the end of 2026, ending a decade-long tenure. Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn and joi…
Anthropic confidentially filed to go public, with co-founder Daniela Amodei stating the company split from OpenAI to prioritize ethics and compute discipline over financial metrics. The AI firm is valued at $965 billion,…
Apple Inc. executives have held early-stage internal discussions about potentially acquiring AI search startup Perplexity AI, with mergers-and-acquisitions chief Adrian Perica and services chief Eddy Cue among those invo…
A University of Cambridge team and spin-out DIOSynVax reported that a Phase 1 trial of an AI-designed "super-antigen" vaccine was safe and immunogenic in 39 healthy volunteers. The vaccine, whose active component was des…
Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public, a move expected to pressure other artificial intelligence companies to pursue their own initial public offerings. The listing could reshape capital availability and increase …