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Nabeel Qureshi, a former Palantir engineer, describes how embedding engineers inside customer operations helped Airbus 4x the pace of A350 manufacturing, contrasting with failed pilots where teams spent weeks just gettin…
James Dacombe, a 25-year-old sixth-form dropout from Harrogate, is set to become Britain's newest billionaire after his AI chip company Olix was valued at $3.3 billion (£2.5 billion) following a $312 million (£232 millio…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund, Situational Awareness, collapsed amid turmoil driven by leverage, according to a discussion between Ed Elson and Michael Green, chief strategist at Simplify Asset Management, who also war…
London-based AI infrastructure startup Olix, founded in 2024 by Thiel Fellow James Dacombe, raised $312 million in a Series B round at a $3.3 billion valuation, with backing from Arm and Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings,…
Volta Infra Holdings Ltd., a new AI cloud company founded by former Brookfield Asset Management executives Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio, has raised $300 million in venture funding at a $2.4 billion valuation, with co-l…
SpaceX reported a first-quarter net loss of $4.3 billion, after losing $4.9 billion in 2025, with capital expenditures of $10.1 billion, including $7.7 billion for AI infrastructure following its acquisition of xAI in Fe…
Generative AI has made name generation easy but has not solved the naming challenge for agentic AI products, as the industry is crowded with names clustered into 18 recurring territories, according to a census by River +…
Paradigm, the crypto-native venture firm co-founded by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, closed its fourth fund at $1.2 billion in July 2026, with a mandate expanded beyond crypto to include AI, robotics, and frontier technolo…
The U.S. Census Bureau reported 531,423 business applications in June, the highest sustained rate in 22 years, but Columbia Business School's Jorge Guzman and MIT's Scott Stern found that only 0.07% of new firms reach an…
Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt has revived the bookstore chain by abandoning the centralized 'pay-for-display' model and empowering local stores to choose their own inventory, leading to plans to open 60 stores this year…
Mistral, the French AI lab, is capitalizing on US restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI models and safety incidents involving OpenAI's rogue AI agent to position itself as a safer, open-source alternative. CEO Arthur Mens…
Shanghai-based AI chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation exceeding RMB 10 billion (approximately $1.4 billion), according to a report by the 21st Century Business H…
Chinese embodied-AI startup PaXini has raised RMB1 billion in a strategic funding round, bringing its total fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, to scale its tactile-sensing chips for robots. The round was led by an unnamed gl…
PaXini, an embodied-AI startup, has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company announced on Aug. 3. The round was co-led by an unnamed global cons…
Shanghai-based AI-chip startup Fangqing Technology has reportedly completed an A1 financing round at a valuation above RMB10 billion, according to a report published on Aug. 4 by 21st Century Business Herald. The report …
AI² Robotics, a Shenzhen-based humanoid robot maker founded in April 2023, is considering a Hong Kong IPO after raising over $890 million in funding, with a valuation of roughly $3 billion. The company, led by CEO Yandon…
SoftBank Group Corp. is expected to post a net profit of 148.4 billion yen (US$941.2 million) for the April-June quarter, with analysts focused on how it will fund its over US$60 billion commitment to OpenAI and related …
OpenAI is a deeply mismanaged company with no real competitive advantage, as models become commodities and differentiation is price, according to a Hacker News commenter. The commenter argues OpenAI's broad efforts are a…
MVNT, a Seoul-based dance AI startup co-founded by CEO Joon Jung and choreographer Choi Youngjun, is seeking $10 million in a pre-Series A round, as reported by Business Insider on August 4. The company aims to build AI …
An engineer seeking marketing advice for their product asked the Hacker News community for growth hacking tips in the AI era, noting that their initial marketing efforts did not work well. The post, submitted by user ara…