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Micron Technology reported a 15-fold surge in GAAP net income to $28.24 billion in fiscal Q3 2026, driven by soaring demand for AI memory chips. Revenue jumped 346% year-over-year to $41.46 billion, and the stock rose 15…
AI chip startup Etched emerged from stealth with $800 million in funding and $1 billion in forward sales contracts, claiming its Sohu ASIC can replace up to 160 Nvidia H100 GPUs for transformer inference. The company, va…
Etched, a Cupertino-based chip startup founded by Harvard dropouts, emerged from stealth with a working transformer-specialized chip called Sohu, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts. The…
U.S. stock markets are on track for their best quarter in years, with the S&P 500 up 14% and Nasdaq up 20% in Q2 2026, driven by AI sector enthusiasm. However, average investors often underperform due to behavioral pitfa…
X Square Robot Technology Co. closed four consecutive financing rounds, including a Series C, bringing its valuation to over $2.8 billion. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI and foundation model developer plans to use the fu…
Warp, an AI-native employee management platform, raised a $60 million Series B led by Battery Ventures, bringing total funding to $85 million. The round closed in six days with participation from Peak XV, Sound Ventures,…
ForthWrite founder Curtis Boortz launched an AI email-writing Chrome extension that trains on users' sent mail history to build a personal voice model, distinguishing it from general-purpose tools like ChatGPT. The exten…
Dell's AI server sales surged, driving revenue past expectations and boosting Michael Dell's net worth to $217 billion, but gross margins dropped 26% since February 2025 as AI now accounts for 37% of revenue. Analysts de…
Anthropic unveiled Sonnet 5, the latest Claude model, as a cost-efficient alternative to larger models amid rising AI expenses. The model offers agentic capabilities at lower pricing, with early testers like Cursor prais…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment to embed forward deployed engineers within customer networks, aiming to help organizations become self-sufficient with AI. The role, which has seen job postings surge…
Aker ASA sold Cognite to Schneider Electric for $3.1 billion, netting a 20x return on its investment, and is reinvesting the proceeds into Nscale, a European AI infrastructure provider, becoming its largest shareholder w…
Amazon Robotics is close to signing a lease for 250,000 square feet at 650 Townsend Street in San Francisco's Design District, joining a growing hub of AI and tech firms. The Massachusetts-based division develops autonom…
Cryptocurrency exchange OKX launched a marketplace named OKX AI that enables autonomous AI agents to discover work, hire one another, and settle payments in stablecoins, following a closed beta with 50 early AI service p…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
French electronics conglomerate Schneider Electric has acquired Norwegian AI company Cognite for $3.1 billion (30 billion SEK), with seller Aker expecting proceeds of 14.7 billion NOK. Cognite, a provider of industrial d…
SemiAnalysis surveyed over 50 enterprises and found that widespread token overspending, as reported at Meta and Uber, is overstated and not representative of most organizations. Companies are now adopting token budgets r…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot facility in Austin called Robot Park to collect teleoperation data from its Apollo 2 humanoid robots for Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics AI models. The company has raised over $935…
Schneider Electric acquired Norwegian industrial AI company Cognite for $3.1bn in cash, aiming to integrate its data and AI platform into its Aveva software unit. The deal positions Schneider to lead in industrial AI, wh…
AI chip startup Etched announced it has booked $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million to date, including a $500 million round at a $5 billion valuation, as it emerges from stealth with a specialized chip f…