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Elon Musk announced on June 28 that Grok 4.5 is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, describing the model as based on a 1.5T V9 foundation model with supplemental training from Cursor data. The rollout follows xAI's patt…
Suno, an AI music startup valued at $5.4 billion, launched a grant program for indie artists that includes a permanent non-disparagement clause, barring participants from ever criticizing the company. The clause, buried …
Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion Hong Kong IPO and has asked prospective investors to commit to purchasing its semiconductors, blurring the line between shareholder and customer. The unusual prac…
NVIDIA raised $25 billion in investment-grade bonds on June 15, 2026, drawing $85 billion in orders, its first debt issuance since 2021. The company reported $216 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue and $49 billion in quarter…
Pure Storage rebranded as Everpure in early 2026, dropping 'Storage' from its name to target data leadership and AI buyers, alongside acquiring data intelligence firm 1touch and reporting a record $1 billion quarter. CEO…
Firmus Technologies, an Australian AI infrastructure company valued at $5.5 billion, will build a 360MW Nvidia DSX AI Factory in Batam, Indonesia, with up to 170,000 Nvidia AI accelerator chips. The company expects $25 b…
OpenAI is considering drastic cuts to its token pricing ahead of its IPO, responding to competitive pressure from Anthropic and cheaper Chinese open-source models. The move aims to capture developer and enterprise market…
Sakana AI CEO David Ha argues that orchestrating many small models will outperform frontier giants, unveiling Fugu, a model orchestration system that routes tasks across specialized models. The Tokyo-based startup, backe…
A developer is building a website where users exchange data for credits to train AI models, bypassing monetary transactions. Users earn credits by fulfilling data bounties and spend them to request data for their own mod…
OpenAI acquired Jony Ive's hardware startup io Products for $6.5 billion in May 2025, establishing a hardware division to launch AI-native devices including a screenless smart speaker in 2027 and smart glasses by 2028, a…
Persistent Systems, through its subsidiary Galaxy Germany Holding SE, announced a voluntary public takeover for all shares of Nagarro at EUR 81 per share, a 140% premium over the undisturbed closing price. The deal, back…
Cerebras, an AI chip startup that bet against GPUs by designing a wafer-scale processor, went public in May 2026 at a $56 billion valuation, the largest US tech IPO since Uber. The company's confidential Series A deck fr…
About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to buy elections. The pr…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed a confidential IPO, positioning it as the most valuable AI startup. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia hold stakes, while export…
9 Mothers, a Y Combinator-backed defense startup, is selling Edda, an AI-powered point-defense turret designed to stop small FPV suicide drones at close range. The Austin-based company has sold $1.6 million of systems to…
Micron, the Boise-based memory chip maker, has seen its market cap surge to nearly $1.27 trillion, briefly surpassing Meta and Tesla, as Wall Street bets on sustained AI-driven demand for its memory chips. The company's …
Firmus Technologies struck a strategic partnership with Nvidia to deploy 170,000 Nvidia GPUs in Batam, Indonesia, turning the Australian AI infrastructure builder into a reseller of Nvidia-powered cloud capacity. The dea…
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies partnered with Nvidia to build its first data center in Indonesia, expanding its Asia-Pacific footprint. The company, which pivoted from crypto mining to AI, has r…
Firmus Technologies, an Australian company that pivoted from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure, has joined Nvidia's DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace as a Cloud Partner, deploying tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across the…
Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.9 billion on June 24, 2026, to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA software dominance with Modular's Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, which enable AI developers to write…