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Andreessen Horowitz launched the a16z FDE Fellowship, an eight-week cohort for forward-deployed engineers and applied AI leaders deploying AI into enterprise settings. The program, starting in July 2026, aims to connect …
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new financing, valuing the artificial intelligence start-up at $900 billion and surpassing OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion to become the world’s most valuable A.I. company. The San…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded flagship AI model that is four times less likely to overlook code flaws and shows improved honesty and reliability across agentic tasks. The company also teased upcoming My…
Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb said oil prices and artificial intelligence developments are currently the dominant forces shaping the global economy, outweighing traditional macroeconomic factors. Loeb highlighted the semic…
The first successful AI wearable will likely focus on personalized health rather than companionship, as evidenced by the launch of the Oura Ring 5 with its built-in AI assistant and Google's Fitbit Air with an LLM-powere…
A solo developer in Accra, Ghana, has launched AgentRAM, a memory API for AI agents that eliminates the need for vector databases or embedding pipelines. The service provides durable key-value memory storage through simp…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, achieving a $965 billion post-money valuation. The company reported that its run-rate revenue surpasse…
Oura launched the Ring 5, a smart ring that is 40% smaller than its predecessor at 6.09mm wide, and introduced blood pressure pattern detection and AI-powered Health Radar monitoring. The device, priced from $399 and shi…
AI coding startup Cognition raised $1 billion at a $25 billion valuation, while OpenRouter doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion in one year. Microsoft shipped Copilot Cowork, an autonomous AI agent built into Microsoft …
Finance teams are adopting AI for forecasting, data consolidation, and anomaly detection, but the technology remains incapable of building financial models that require structured reasoning about business drivers and ass…
StrictlyVC Los Angeles 2026 will take place June 18 at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, bringing together leading investors and entrepreneurs for conversations on venture capital and frontier technology. T…
Elon Musk announced that SpaceX’s agreement with AI company Anthropic to lease computing power at the Colossus data center is only a 180-day lease with a 90-day mutual cancellation clause, contradicting earlier reports o…
Author Brett Scott argues that Palantir Technologies should be renamed Orthanc Inc., drawing a direct parallel between the data-mining firm and the dark tower of the wizard Saruman in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Ri…
SpaceX has only committed to a 180-day compute lease with Anthropic, not a multi-year agreement, CEO Elon Musk clarified on X Thursday. The arrangement, which includes 90-day mutual cancellation rights, was disclosed in …
Anthropic released Opus 4.8 on Thursday, its newest and most advanced publicly available AI model, alongside a new "Dynamic Workflows" tool for managing complex multi-agent tasks. The upgrade arrives just 41 days after O…
Engineering leaders at mid-sized and large companies are implementing top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, signaling a new trend of questioning ROI on AI investments. The move comes amid reports …
Amazon's Project Nara, an end-to-end AI production suite, is now available to independent filmmakers through a new grant program, as announced at the AI on the Lot conference in Culver City, which drew about 2,000 attend…
OpenAI and Anthropic are hiring forward deployed engineer teams to embed software engineers directly with enterprise customers, enabling rapid customization and deployment of AI models in production environments. The mov…
Oura Health Oy unveiled the Oura Ring 5, a 40% smaller model with improved sensing capabilities and new features to detect signs of hypertension and sleep apnea. The device, priced at $399, goes on sale June 4 as the com…
Jared Leto's band Thirty Seconds to Mars will set aside "human-only" tickets for select European tour dates using World's iris-scanning verification system, the company announced. World, co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman…