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Agency Agents, a native desktop app for macOS, Linux, and Windows, launches to install specialized AI agent personalities into developer tools like Claude Code and Cursor. The app offers over a dozen agents covering fron…
Solo founders now account for 63% of C corporations formed on Stripe Atlas in Q2 2026, driven by AI agents that compress team-sized work into one-person operations. Stripe's analysis shows top-performing solo founders bu…
Base44 founder Maor Shlomo launched Base 1, a proprietary AI model for the Wix-owned app-building platform, aiming to reduce dependence on external model vendors and gain more control over costs and data. The move turns …
The S&P 500 crossed 7,600 for the first time in June and is closing Q2 2026 with roughly 11% gains, powered almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending. The rally is cracking open an IPO and funding window that was shu…
A report from Ramp and Revelio Labs analyzing nearly 22,000 companies found that firms spending heavily on AI grew headcount by 10.2%, including entry-level roles, countering fears of widespread job losses. However, the …
A team of small creators launched an Audio ML sharing platform on Hacker News, aiming to help the community share audio machine learning demos and eventually monetize trained models. The platform seeks to foster open-sou…
Upbit, Korea's largest crypto exchange, will list Gensyn ($AI) in KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs starting June 30, 2026. The decentralized AI compute token, backed by a16z and Galaxy Digital, gains direct access to Kor…
Activist hedge fund Jana Partners disclosed a 6.3% stake in Alkami Technology and is publicly demanding a sale, citing AI pressure on community bank software. Jana argues the company trades at a discount to its intrinsic…
Korean safety AI firm Intellivix, profitable for 13 consecutive years, is expanding its AI video analytics technology to Japan and Southeast Asia. CEO Choi Eun-soo aims to transform CCTV from a post-incident monitoring t…
Base44, acquired by Wix for $80 million in 2025, launched its own AI model Base 1 on June 29 to reduce reliance on third-party models and improve margins. The move comes as Base44 reaches $150 million in annual recurring…
Base44, the Wix-owned vibe coding platform, launched its proprietary large language model Base 1, becoming the first app-creation tool to deploy a homegrown model in production. The move aims to control AI inference cost…
Samsung Electro-Mechanics signed a 454 billion-won ($293 million) contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors for AI servers to a U.S. customer, likely a major cloud provider. The single-year deal reflects tightenin…
Base44, the vibe coding platform acquired by Wix for $80 million a year ago, has launched its own AI model, Base1, to improve latency, cost, and efficiency. The move addresses concerns about defensibility for startups re…
TIDAL will strip royalties from fully AI-generated tracks starting July 15, 2026, becoming the first major streaming platform to demonetize such content. The policy, which includes automatic detection and AI badges, targ…
Digital Realty paid $27 million per megawatt for three leased AI data centers, setting a new valuation benchmark for stabilized AI infrastructure. The price dwarfs typical lease valuations of $400,000 to $550,000 per meg…
Ionic Digital, the Bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, filed for a direct listing on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker IOND. The company, which acquired Celsius Mining's assets during bankruptcy, c…
Tencent is aggressively buying back its own shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after its market capitalization lost $309 billion, driven by investor concerns over AI spending. The company repurchased over 2 million s…
Foray launches an AI tool that generates complete business blueprints, including market analysis, competitor research, financial models, and go-to-market strategies, while stress-testing ideas for potential failure point…
Sazabi, an AI-native observability startup founded by former Brex and Crunchbase engineer Sherwood Callaway, raised an $8 million seed round co-led by J2 Ventures, Village Global, and Y Combinator. The company aims to pr…
A developer migrated from OpenAI's GPT-4o to DeepSeek V4 Flash via a global API provider, reducing monthly costs from $487 to $12.50 with only two lines of code changed. The switch required only altering the API key and …