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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…
DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, raised $7.4 billion in the largest first-time funding round by a Chinese startup, driven by US export restrictions and competition with Anthropic's Mythos model. China now has 381 unicorns, mi…
Leonhard Soenke, cofounder of creator economy startup Throne, has launched TAR, a data center energy startup, after raising $27 million at a $500 million valuation. Soenke left the creator economy to address the growing …
Mecka AI, a physical AI startup based in Toronto and New York City, acquired Vancouver's Docula early this year to process petabytes of motion data for training robots. The acquisition brings Docula's three-person team t…
Elon Musk said SpaceX has deployed dozens of top Starlink and Starship engineers to overhaul its Grok AI model, as the company accelerates its AI efforts following its recent IPO and acquisition of AI coding startup Curs…
OpenAI is considering delaying its initial public offering until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, according to a Bloomberg report. The delay has caused SoftBank's shares to drop 13% and affected investment banks …
SeventeenLabs launches an early-access production workflow platform for AI filmmakers, offering script-to-scene planning, character and continuity management, and generation briefs to reduce random retries. The tool aims…
A growing number of tech CEOs, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Palo Alto Networks' Nikesh Arora, argue that cheaper AI models are crucial for wider adoption as companies face soaring bills from usage-based pricin…
Google Cloud has partnered with SandboxAQ to distribute the company's specialist AI models for drug discovery, materials science, and cybersecurity through its infrastructure and marketplace. The deal, announced on Janua…
Alistair Croll built Envoi, a virtual conference for AI agents, debuting at Startupfest next month. The platform is described as 'Moltbook, but a conference,' aiming to provide a dedicated space for AI agents to interact…
Berlin-based Peec AI is raising new funding at a $200M pre-money valuation, double its worth eight months ago, as it bets on generative engine optimization (GEO) replacing traditional SEO. The startup tracks brand visibi…
Blackstone is preparing a Singapore REIT listing for AirTrunk that could raise more than $1 billion, aiming to cash in on AI infrastructure demand without selling the entire asset. The deal, which could become Singapore'…
AirTrunk, the Blackstone-backed hyperscale data center operator, is nearing a confidential IPO filing for a real estate investment trust in Singapore, targeting a raise of $1 billion to $1.2 billion. If successful, it wo…
HackerNoon, a tech publishing platform founded in 2016 by David Smooke and Linh Dao Smooke under ArtMap Inc., attracts over 4 million monthly readers as of 2026. The platform offers AI-powered content management, sponsor…
The Fifth Hong Kong Science Fair, organized by the Hong Kong Innovation Foundation and supported by Sino Group and the Innovation, Technology and Industry Bureau, concluded with over 60,000 visits. Around 120 student tea…
Elon Musk predicts SpaceX will exceed $100 billion in annual revenue by 2028, driven by Starlink, Starship, and AI compute leasing, after posting $18.67 billion in 2025 revenue. The company's growth underscores private e…
Consulting firms including Boston Consulting Group and Accenture are shifting to outcome-based fee arrangements for AI projects, driven by client demand for shared risk amid uncertain returns on AI investments. This move…
Elon Musk confirmed Grok 4.5 entered private beta at SpaceX and Tesla on June 28, 2026, featuring 1.5 trillion parameters and trained from scratch on xAI's Colossus 2 cluster. The model leverages unique cursor data from …
Hexaware Technologies was named an Anthropic Authorized Reseller for Amazon Bedrock, allowing it to sell, integrate and support Claude models for enterprise customers through AWS. The deal highlights how frontier AI will…
Akirolabs CTO formalized a product engineer model that blends engineering and product thinking, boosting development velocity by 15-25% and reducing release timelines by 10-15%. Integrating AI tools further cut iteration…