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Anthropic's planned initial public offering, which could value the Claude maker at up to $2 trillion, will leave its experimental Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT) in control of the majority of its board, a governance struc…
Seattle-based AI research startup Resect AI announced Thursday it has raised $25 million in early funding to build an accountability layer for enterprise AI that captures and reduces hallucinations at runtime. The compan…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has stepped down, handing the role to former hardware chief John Ternus, who promised a 'huge launch next week' in his first memo, with Cook staying on as Executive Chairman. Nvidia confirmed it will a…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in Gimlet Labs, which it calls the first multi-silicon inference cloud designed to address the global shortage of AI compute power. The firm notes that five U.S. hypersc…
Nvidia confirmed its $12.9 billion acquisition of AI hosting platform Hugging Face, a deal that analyst Zeus Kerravala said hedges Nvidia against Meta, OpenAI, and Microsoft building their own accelerators. The week also…
OpenCode released a stealth AI coding model called Omen Alpha on September 4, available exclusively to OpenCode Go subscribers for $10 per month with $100 worth of usage, but its identity may be revealed by a URL on Open…
NVIDIA's $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face includes a hidden easter egg: the exact figure, $12,930,300,000, encodes the Unicode code point for the 🤗 emoji (U+1F917) in its first six digits, as revealed by Huggin…
Governments and companies outside the U.S. and China are increasingly pursuing 'sovereign AI' to avoid dependence on foreign AI systems, with efforts ranging from Europe's data protection to Asia's local industry develop…
Tamar AI, a Palo Alto company, is showcasing its AI-native filmmaking platform TapNow at the Venice Production Bridge, backed by HappyHorse, with its 10,000 Parallel Universes program that has drawn over 2,000 submission…
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its first model to cross the company's 'critical cybersecurity capability threshold,' scoring 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3 with a custom harness but only 62.7% with a standard harness, while chief scie…
Cango Inc. announced on September 3 that its EcoHash subsidiary has begun commercial GPU computing at its 50-megawatt Bitcoin mining facility in Georgia, with a dedicated AI compute section supporting up to 3 megawatts o…
Abliteration.ai, a startup selling hosted open-weight AI models with safety refusals removed, is now offering an abliterated version of Z.ai's GLM-5.3 and courting venture investors after funding cloud costs from custome…
Figure has committed an initial $3.5 billion in compute from AI infrastructure provider Nscale, securing a path to as many as 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs to scale its Helix AI models for humanoid robots. The first sys…
BotPool has launched BotPool Create, an AI-powered website builder that lets users describe their business in plain language and publish a complete site in minutes, with free hosting, SSL, forms, and SEO included. The pl…
Nvidia may acquire Hugging Face to create a unified AI stack from silicon to deployed models, according to an analysis. The potential merger would streamline model optimization, compute integration, and data pipeline eff…
Humanoid robotics startups raised approximately $8.6 billion in the first half of 2026, and the broader AI robotics market is projected to pass $33 billion by 2030, according to a guide to the companies shaping the secto…
Nvidia announced on Thursday an agreement to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, a deal that critics argue will cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the AI ecosystem. Hugging Face, founded in 2016…
Ultrahuman, a smart ring maker, announced it raised $70 million from Qualcomm Ventures, Labcorp, Alpha Wave, Blume and others to develop next-generation AI wearables, with plans to enable gesture control for future rings…
Subsense, a Palo Alto startup founded by Tetiana Aleksandrova and Artem Sokolov, has raised $27 million in seed funding to develop NanoBCI, a non-surgical brain-computer interface that delivers nanoparticles through the …
A developer seeking collaborators on Hacker News proposed forming a team to build robotics startups, targeting Y Combinator's accelerator program. The builder and a friend, Varun, aim to work on world models, robotics de…