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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…
Amazon Web Services committed $1 billion to a new Forward Deployed Engineering program, sending small teams of engineers to work directly with clients for 45-day engagements to build custom AI systems. The initiative, an…
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs), a role pioneered by Palantir, are surging in demand in 2025 as AI startups and scaleups need engineers who can embed with customers to integrate AI solutions. Venture firm a16z has call…
Bending Spoons, the Milan-based acquirer of AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and WeTransfer, priced its Nasdaq IPO above the $26-$28 range at a valuation of roughly $19 billion, driven by strong demand from Wall Street. The company…
Anthropic launched its cheaper Claude Sonnet 5 model, designed for agentic AI and autonomous tasks, as tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and Uber seek to cut AI token costs. The model offers improved performance over its…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a cheaper and more agentic midsize model that can plan, use tools, and run autonomously. Priced at $2 per million input tokens through August, it offers performance close to Opus 4.8 a…
Phantom has acquired the team behind Ventuals, a platform for permissionless perpetual futures on private company valuations, to bolster its on-chain trading capabilities. The Ventuals team, led by CEO Alvin Hsia and CTO…
Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Sonnet 5, codenamed "Fennec," on OpenRouter, according to reports. The model, which was rumored for a February 2026 launch that did not materialize, is now nearing availability on…
Singapore-based startup Acti launched an agentic keyboard for iOS and Android that embeds AI agents directly into the keyboard, enabling actions like sharing live stock prices or local recommendations without switching a…
Wall Street rallied on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 up 0.7% and the Nasdaq Composite gaining 1.3%, driven by AI-related stocks. SpaceX rose 3.6% ahead of its expected inclusion in the Nasdaq-100, while oil prices fell over …
A startup CTO who spent $50,000 on AI APIs last year shares lessons learned about API strategy for early-stage companies. The CTO warns that going direct to model providers is a trap for startups, recommending aggregatio…
Amazon Web Services announced a $1 billion investment on June 30, 2026 to create a Forward Deployed Engineering unit that will embed thousands of its engineers inside customer companies to help build and run AI systems, …
LeBron James has informed the Lakers he will enter free agency, with the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers emerging as top contenders to sign him. Prediction markets show the Warriors as frontrunners with 67%…
Silicom Ltd. announced its first production order for an AI inference solution, with deliveries scheduled for 2026, raising its 2026 AI inference revenue guidance to multi-million dollars. The order marks the company's t…
Italian AI startup Domyn announced plans to release an open source frontier AI model within a year, aiming to compete with major players like OpenAI and Google. CEO Marco Rossi stated the model will be freely available t…
Anthropic launched Claude Science, a workbench for scientific research, at its AI for Science event on Tuesday. The offering aims to expand revenue streams ahead of the company's planned IPO later this year, as it compet…
Anthropic's Mythos AI model was reinstated by the Trump administration for limited release to over 100 U.S. institutions after a two-week block, while OpenAI's GPT-5.6 lineup faced similar restrictions. New data from Acc…
Etched emerged from stealth with a working chip, $800 million raised, and over $1 billion in signed customer contracts, pivoting from a transformer-specialized ASIC to a full-stack inference systems company. The startup,…
Schneider Electric acquired Cognite for $3.1 billion in late June 2026, marking the largest Norwegian software exit. The deal gives Schneider ownership of Cognite's industrial data platform, which connects operational te…
Google released Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash to developers on June 30, offering a fast, low-cost image model and a video editing model via Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. The launch targets latency and c…