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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…
Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a former Democrat who now supports Donald Trump, has been appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The board, led by former Trump trade representative Robert Light…
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
Nvidia dominates AI training hardware, but the inference market is wide open as companies like Cerebras, Groq, d-Matrix, Etched, and Taalas challenge Nvidia's GPU-based approach by designing chips optimized for low-laten…
Chamath Palihapitiya's AI coding startup 8090 raised $135 million in a Series A round led by Salesforce, with Palihapitiya taking the CEO role. The company sells a governed software factory platform that integrates AI ag…
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launched a neural headband…
Cockroach Labs CEO Spencer Kimball said AI agents will automate database management just as they have coding, driven by the explosion of AI agent demand. The company plans to launch an Agentic Database Cloud later this y…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg dismissed fears about AI-related job displacement, arguing that a focus on empowering individuals rather than automating knowledge work could lead to more jobs. He contrasted Meta's vision with t…
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million from investors including Jane Street and a TSMC-linked fund, with $1 billion in sales contracts secured. The company plans to ship its Sohu inference chip this summer, betting o…
Matt Rosenberg left Amazon in 2025 and, with the help of ChatGPT, opened a home kitchen restaurant called Bangkok Rush Thai Kitchen. AI tools helped him build a website, manage compliance, and analyze trends, enabling th…
Engram Lab, a 13-employee AI startup, posted a satirical Initial Public Offering announcement on X, prompting a congratulatory response from the New York Stock Exchange despite no actual listing. The company, valued at $…
Helix Digital Infrastructure launched on June 11 with over $10 billion in committed capital from KKR, NVIDIA, the Kuwait Investment Authority, and Vistra, led by former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, to acquire US data centers f…
Amazon launched a $1 billion Frontline Deployment Engineers organization to embed AI agents within enterprise clients, signaling a major push to move AI agents from demos to production. The move validates the AI-agent ca…
San Francisco's AI boom is driving up housing costs so rapidly that even couples earning $365,000 annually struggle to find apartments under $5,000 rent. With median rent at $3,827 and average home prices at $1.7 million…
Global Unichip Corp. (GUC) hit an all-time high of NT$5,950, surging over 240% in the past year, as demand for custom CPUs from hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft boosts revenue estimates. The TSMC-affiliated chip de…
Amazon Web Services launched a new $1 billion internal organization for forward-deployed engineers focused on AI deployments, following similar moves by OpenAI and Anthropic. The FDE team will embed within customer compa…
Global stocks surged $7 trillion in the first half of 2026 despite a $9 trillion drop in March caused by the Iran war, as an AI boom drove markets higher. South Korea's stock market doubled, SpaceX soared, but the 'Magni…
OpenAI teased a new hardware device for Codex AI coders, resembling a mini keyboard, in collaboration with hardware company Work Louder. The device, set for a July 15 reveal, is a shortcut keyboard aimed at vibe coders, …
AI chip startup Etched disclosed that quantitative trading firm Jane Street and a TSMC-linked venture firm are among its backers, signaling confidence in its transformer-specific chip. The company, which has raised $800 …
AI chip startup Etched raised $800 million and secured $1 billion in sales contracts for its Sohu ASIC, a transformer-specific chip that claims to outperform Nvidia's H100. The company, founded in 2022, is betting on the…