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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…
Mirendil, a startup founded by former Anthropic researchers Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, raised $200 million in seed funding at a $1 billion valuation to build a self-improving AI platform. The company aims to sell …
Baidu is spinning off its AI chip subsidiary Kunlunxin into a standalone public company, targeting a valuation of up to $50 billion in a Hong Kong IPO. The move capitalizes on China's push for semiconductor self-reliance…
A developer warns that the most dangerous AI edge is the one that works, as it commoditizes faster than defenses can be built. Nine in ten organizations use AI, but fewer than four in ten see measurable profit impact, wi…
OpenAI has hired Apple's Vision Pro chief Paul Meade to lead its hardware unit, marking the most senior Apple defection yet. Meade will work on OpenAI's planned family of AI-powered devices, rejoining former Apple collea…
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, urged the European Commission to bring Anthropic to Europe in response to a U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The p…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix announced a combined 800 trillion won ($518 billion) investment to build a new chipmaking hub in southwestern South Korea, aiming to meet surging AI-driven demand for memory chips. Presid…
Concerns that artificial intelligence will disrupt Asia's real estate sector are overblown, as demand for digital infrastructure in developing countries remains strong regardless of the AI boom's trajectory. McKinsey pro…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a sweeping industrial strategy with over $1 trillion in investments for semiconductor chips and AI projects, aiming to secure the country's leadership in the AI boom. The pl…
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are in talks with the South Korean government to build two new semiconductor fabrication sites in the Honam region, aiming to meet surging AI demand. The second chip cluster could be comp…
Swiss startup Flexion Robotics, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, has developed an AI system that trains humanoid robots to autonomously perform complex office tasks like retrieving packages and using elevators. The syst…
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has agreed to supply Tencent with roughly $3 billion of memory chips, according to sources, in a deal that would bind one of China's largest cloud operators to its largest homegrown DR…
A user on vast.ai discovered a GPU host masquerading as a US-based machine was actually a Hong Kong host proxying traffic, resulting in slow performance and unusability for AI workloads due to Chinese IP blocks by servic…
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced a $518 billion semiconductor megaproject on June 29, including four new memory chip fabs, an HBM packaging hub, and over 1 quadrillion won in AI data center investment. The …
South Korea announced an 800 trillion won ($520 billion) semiconductor investment plan, the largest in history, to build four new chip fabrication plants and three AI data centers. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will e…
Elon Musk announced on June 28, 2026 that xAI's Grok 4.5 has entered private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, marking its first deployment before a wider release. Built on xAI's 1.5 trillion-parameter V9 foundation model, Grok …