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Neal Patel launched ScaleDown, a service offering task-specific small language models designed to replace larger frontier models for simpler AI workloads. Patel claims the models are 15x cheaper, 63x faster, and 5.1% mor…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody stated in a 20VC interview that his company now spends more on AI agent tokens than on human salaries, marking a concrete shift in operational spending. The claim positions Mercor as a test case …
Cognition has introduced an AI Productivity Guarantee for its Devin engineering agent, promising enterprise customers up to $10 million in credits if the tool fails to deliver engineering value equal to its cost. The com…
Vertus, an AI company based on the Isle of Man, reported generating returns exceeding 51 percent in 2025 while trading over $500 million daily, with results independently verified by a certified public accounting firm. T…
LGND AI won the 2026 Snowflake Startup Challenge, beating out competitors Airrived and Twine Security. The company builds Large Earth Models trained on 800 petabytes of satellite imagery to make geospatial data queryable…
Bernstein initiated coverage of TeraWulf and Cipher Mining with Outperform ratings and price targets of $36 and $32, respectively, citing the companies' transition from Bitcoin miners to "power landlords" for AI data cen…
A two-person team built Cork, an app that extracts restaurant and event information from Instagram Reels and TikTok videos and saves it to a map and calendar, outperforming funded competitors on popular creator content. …
Anthropic researchers Marina Favaro and Jack Clark called for a global option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development, warning that models could reach "recursive self-improvement" before institutions are pre…
MetricSync developer found that the most effective AI food logging UX requires three input modes—photo, barcode, and text—rather than relying solely on AI photo recognition. The developer learned that photo logging works…
Anthropic, the AI company valued at $965 billion, called for a global slowdown in AI development Thursday, warning that systems could soon improve themselves without human intervention and cause societal chaos. Critics a…
A one-page discovery call template with six targeted fields—current state, pain quantification, stakeholder map, success criteria, timeline, and next steps—replaces bloated multi-page formats that force reps to interroga…
Accounting firms are adopting AI meeting assistants to capture client advisory calls, transcribe technical tax discussions into plain-language summaries, and track action items across multiple engagements. The tools fall…
An app built with AI costs little to create but hundreds of dollars per month once real users arrive, as each production need—authentication, file uploads, email delivery, error tracking, and abuse protection—requires a …
A youth baseball coach frustrated by the time-consuming logistics of creating and adjusting lineups built CalledUp, a mobile app that handles rosters, schedules, lineups, and parent messaging in one place. The developer,…
Corporate spend management platform Ramp has achieved a $44 billion valuation after closing a $750 million Series F funding round led by ICONIQ, GIC, and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The New York-based company nearly …
Enterprise tech giants Microsoft and Snowflake are shifting their AI strategies toward cost efficiency, unveiling products this week designed to reduce compute expenses as customers face mounting token bills. The moves s…
Seeking Alpha estimated in an investing column that Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Google, and Amazon are committing roughly $600 billion to $700 billion or more to AI and related infrastructure. The analysis named Gemi…
Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies, including OpenAI, about the federal government acquiring shares in their firms, according to three people familiar wit…
Founders Fund launched a new YouTube and X show Thursday featuring 12 Silicon Valley figures, including Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and Bryan Johnson, playing the deception game Mafia at San Francisco's Tosca Cafe. The 33…
California lawmakers are again considering AB 412, a bill that would require AI developers to identify and disclose copyrighted works used to train generative AI systems. The Electronic Frontier Foundation submitted an o…