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Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, led by Fidelity, to sell open, programmable chips that wire GPUs together in AI data centers. The company's E1 processor a…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman suggested the AI industry should 'pace' itself, days after one of OpenAI's models was involved in a breach at Hugging Face, and both OpenAI and Anthropic have supported a petition echoing that messa…
Moonshot AI, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the Kimi chatbot, raised over $3.5 billion in its latest funding round, lifting its valuation to $35 billion, according to Yicai Global. The company, based in…
Space-Eyes, a Miami-based geospatial intelligence firm backed by Eric Trump, plans to go public through a $638 million SPAC merger, deepening the Trump family's ties to the defence industry. The company, founded in 2001 …
Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 24-year-old former OpenAI researcher and founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness LP, was forced to sell all public stock holdings after the fund posted large losses from declines in AI infras…
Revolut announced on July 30 a partnership with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into eligible retail subscription plans, offering three to 12 months of access depending on the plan. The offer is available immediately for pai…
Tasklet, a Y Combinator-backed startup (YC P26) building an AI platform for business agents, is hiring a Customer Success Engineer with a salary of $130,000 to $180,000 and equity of 0.05% to 0.15%. The role involves own…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness LP, sold nearly all its public equity portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after heavy losses in the AI stock sell-off, according to Axios. The fund, whi…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI hedge fund Situational Awareness sold nearly its entire public portfolio to Ken Griffin's Citadel after heavy losses on leveraged AI stock positions, following a reported 439% six-month return …
British AI infrastructure provider Nscale has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the company commercializing the open-source Ray distributed computing framework, in a deal reported by TechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, to be worth $…
A developer who relaunched their SaaS product UIPrompt as a buy-once tool after a failed subscription model reported zero sales in a 14-day window, leading to the product being placed in maintenance mode. The developer a…
Adi Prasad, a 35-year-old MIT-trained manufacturing engineer who worked at Tesla, Apple, CloudKitchens, and Rivian, is applying lessons from Elon Musk and Travis Kalanick to Matter, an AI manufacturing startup running a …
Adi Prasad, cofounder and CEO of AI manufacturing startup Matter, said in an as-told-to essay that working with Elon Musk at Tesla and Travis Kalanick at CloudKitchens taught him first-principles thinking and ROI-focused…
AI Product Opportunity, a new platform showcased on Hacker News, claims to help founders discover and validate AI product opportunities using evidence from 15 sources, tracking 3,000+ opportunities, 14,000+ evidence item…
OpenAI's DeployCo, a new enterprise-focused unit, is investing billions in forward-deployed engineers to accelerate AI adoption, with the company stating it does not take intellectual property from customers. The initiat…
Funding for consumer startups in Southeast Asia has plummeted from US$6 billion in 2022 to US$580 million in the first half of 2026, as investors redirect capital to AI and adjacent sectors, according to data platform Tr…
China's securities regulator approved Unitree Robotics' registration application on July 1, moving the Hangzhou-based quadruped and humanoid robot maker closer to an IPO on Shanghai's STAR Market. The company's prospectu…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund Situational Awareness lost 67% in July, forcing it to sell most of its stock holdings to Ken Griffin's Citadel to meet margin calls, though the fund remains up about 80% for the year. T…
RuntimeWire, an AI-native newsroom founded by Ryan Merket, surpassed 200,399 pageviews on July 31st and launched RuntimeWire Jobs, a hand-reviewed job board for AI and startup roles. The job board charges $149 for a 30-d…
Henry AI, a New York-based startup founded by Sammy Greenwall and Adam Pratt, raised $16.5 million in Series A funding led by FirstMark Capital on July 29, 2026, to expand its commercial real estate platform. The company…