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Goldman Sachs strategist Ben Snider estimates AI infrastructure stocks will contribute nearly 60% of S&P 500 EPS growth this quarter, with Nvidia, Micron, and Broadcom accounting for about 54% of total earnings growth. I…
PU Prime and STARTRADER launched pre-IPO derivatives for OpenAI and Anthropic on June 29, 2026, offering retail investors early exposure to the private AI companies despite no announced IPO plans. The products, including…
Omen AI raised $31 million in Series A funding led by Nava Ventures to deploy real-time fluid monitoring spectrometers in data centers, preventing costly shutdowns from bacterial contamination in liquid cooling systems. …
Conexus Venture Capital, the investment arm of Saskatchewan's Conexus Credit Union, invested in Vancouver-based FinTech Judi.ai to scale its AI platform for small-business lending. The investment, from CVC's $30 million …
Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for permission to buy DRAM chips from Chinese manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), which is on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties. Th…
Baidu is preparing to take its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, targeting a $50 billion valuation. The spin-off aims to highlight Kunlunxin's standalone value amid China's push for sem…
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison's net worth has surged to around $192 billion as investors reward the company's aggressive push into AI cloud infrastructure, even as Oracle cuts jobs in other areas. The company's AI stra…
US IPOs and share sales hit a record $251 billion in the first half of 2026, driven by SpaceX's $86.2 billion listing and Alphabet's $85 billion fundraise. AI infrastructure spending is fueling demand, with bankers expec…
Hundreds of billions of dollars in new U.S. semiconductor investment are creating opportunities for automation and precision engineering suppliers, with Nightfood Holdings (NGTF) announcing a strategic alliance between T…
Hiring at major tech companies is flattening, while funding for AI startups surged 75% to $202 billion in 2025, creating more opportunities for tech professionals at startups or as founders. Nearly 50% of venture capital…
Chinese self-driving software firm Momenta opened its Hong Kong IPO on Monday, seeking up to $752 million to fund AI research and robotaxi development. The GM-backed company, valued at nearly $9 billion, is selling 19.9 …
Elon Musk is reassigning dozens of SpaceX's top engineers, including those from recently acquired Cursor, to overhaul the Grok AI model, aiming to challenge what he calls the 'woke monopoly' of OpenAI and Google. The mov…
Big Tech is pouring trillions into AI infrastructure, with JPMorgan raising its global AI capex estimate through 2030 to $5.5 trillion. Qualcomm and Micron are expanding into data centers and memory chips, while hypersca…
Eric Gilliam proposes that AI philanthropists adopt Warren Weaver's risk-tolerant, concentrated investment strategy to maximize impact, drawing on a blog prize by Dwarkesh Patel and a post by Stripe Climate GM Nan Ransoh…
Mistral launched Vibe, a unified AI agent that replaces Le Chat and combines work assistant and coding agent capabilities under a single license. The agent runs on Mistral's own models and infrastructure, targeting enter…
Prediction market traders on Kalshi give Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg a 32% chance of reaching a $1 trillion net worth before 2033, followed by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at 21%, as AI investments drive wealth growth. Elon Musk…
Microsoft Corp. shares are heading for their worst month since December 2000, down 17% in June and erasing over $570 billion in market value, as investors worry about AI spending and disruption. The selloff has pushed th…
Leonhard Soenke and Patrice Becker, founders of creator gifting startup Throne, have pivoted to energy infrastructure for AI with a new company called TAR, raising a $27 million seed round at a $500 million valuation. TA…
A non-technical user proposes creating an ultra-simple one-click tool for running open-source LLMs locally, citing installation complexity, hardware compatibility issues, and inaccessible interfaces as key pain points. T…
Leonhard Soenke, cofounder of creator-economy startup Throne, has cofounded a new company called TAR (Transformative American Resources) focused on data center energy efficiency and power. TAR raised a $27 million seed r…