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Wayve, a London-based autonomous driving and AI company, initiated an $85 million employee tender offer at an $8.5 billion valuation, following its $1.5 billion Series D round with investors including Nvidia and Microsof…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, 2026, offering near-Opus performance at significantly lower cost, scoring 63.2% on SWE-bench Pro and 1,618 on GDPval-AA v2. Priced at $2 per million input tokens through Aug…
AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a Forward Deployed Engineering organization that embeds its engineers inside customer teams to build and run production agentic AI systems. The initiative aims to compress …
Global semiconductor exports surged to their largest increase in nearly five decades, driven by demand for AI chips, with China becoming the top exporter and Taiwan a key supplier. Prediction markets show 90% confidence …
Natalie Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, argues that forward deployed engineering is defined more by customer accountability than by a specific skill set, and that product and customer-facing engineering role…
Anthropic paid $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit over pirated books used to train its AI, and its terms of service prohibit using Claude to build competing AI systems, raising concerns about its stance on open-source AI.
Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round led by Aramco Ventures, NVIDIA, and others to accelerate open-source AI development. The company plans to use the capital to expand compute capacity and its fu…
Indie distributor Neon acquired Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the nearly complete $40 million project. Neon plans to release the film this year and compe…
Neon, the independent studio behind 'Parasite', will release 'Artificial', a Sam Altman biopic, after Amazon MGM dropped the film. The comedy-drama portrays Altman and Elon Musk unsympathetically, and Amazon's exit follo…
Andrzej Janik released ZLUDA v6 on June 29, adding 32-bit PhysX support and AI workload improvements, but announced commercial funding has ended for the third time, returning the project to a weekend hobby. The drop-in C…
Britain's AI sector has more than tripled in value to £41bn in a year, driven by firms like Nscale (£11.3bn) and ElevenLabs (£8.5bn), as the UK cements its position as Europe's leading startup hub with 70 unicorns worth …
Three former DeepMind researchers turned their poker AI into a quantitative trading firm, EquiLibre Technologies, now valued at over $500 million after a Series A led by Creandum. The company uses reinforcement learning …
A developer argues that startups should build AI-first MVPs that validate real workflows rather than adding AI as a gimmick. The approach focuses on using AI to help users complete specific tasks faster or smarter, keepi…
San Francisco tech workers earning mid-six-figure salaries are being priced out of the housing market by a new wave of 'AI elite' arrivals, as AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic prepare for public listings. Average r…
Wall Street is favoring AI suppliers like NVIDIA over tech giants such as Google and Microsoft, as suppliers directly profit from the AI boom while big tech's long-term investments yield less immediate market reward. Thi…
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30, a mid-tier AI model with near-flagship coding performance and a 1 million token context window, priced at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens throu…
CNBC's Jim Cramer said the AI trade has shifted, with Wall Street now rewarding suppliers of the artificial intelligence boom rather than the technology giants funding it.
CNBC president KC Sullivan said the financial news network is on offense after the Versant Media spinoff, focusing on multiplatform digital transformation and leveraging AI disruption as an opportunity. Sullivan emphasiz…
AWS committed $1 billion to embed thousands of engineers with AI agents inside customer companies to accelerate AI deployment, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in a hyperscaler race for enterprise AI. The move addresses the …
OpenClaw, the free open-source AI agent, launched mobile apps on iOS and Android on Tuesday, allowing users to run agents from their phones via the OpenClaw Gateway. The app follows OpenClaw's viral success earlier this …