AI Startups

Arvind Jain, a former Google engineer who co-founded Rubrik and Glean, says he learned from Sundar Pichai, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin that thinking big and disregarding normal constraints is as important as hard work. J…

Apple raised prices on Macs, iPads, Vision Pro, HomePods, and Apple TV by 15% to over 30%, blaming surging memory costs driven by AI data center demand. The price hikes follow similar moves by Microsoft, Motorola, and Sa…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveiled DSpark, a speculative decoding framework that speeds up AI inference by up to 85% while reducing costs and chip strain. The module uses a lightweight draft model and semi-autoregressi…

AI training startup Shift offers free housecleaning in exchange for customers allowing a camera headset on the cleaner to record footage, which is then licensed to train AI-powered household robots. The company, owned by…

Y Combinator's 2026 AI investment trends reveal a shift toward applied AI startups in healthcare, defense, and enterprise automation, with a focus on reducing reliance on large language models. The analysis shows increas…

Nvidia's global inference datacenter market share has fallen to 1%, as competitors like China's HX-9 Pro chip and open-source models from Zhipu and Sakana AI erode its dominance. A Tier-2 datacenter in Ohio replaced its …

A developer argues that Tailwind UI's decline was caused by its lifetime license business model, not AI. The one-time payment model created unsustainable support costs, while free alternatives like shadcn/ui and AI tools…

Investors face a busy week with the June jobs report, falling oil prices, and ongoing AI spending concerns. The S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq all edged lower on Friday, while markets await key economic data and earnings from …

Nitya Kumar, a 25-year-old product designer at Adobe, landed an AI role by treating her career as a science lab, learning AI through YouTube tutorials and peer collaboration, and building prototypes like a dance-gesture …

Salesforce employees are confused and concerned after the company publicly promoted Anthropic's Claude Tag, an AI agent that competes directly with Salesforce's own Slackbot and Agentforce platform inside Slack. Salesfor…

Nitya Kumar, 25, landed a UX design job at Adobe in November 2025 by treating her career like a science lab, experimenting with AI tools such as Cursor and Gemini to build quirky prototypes. She overcame her fear of lear…

Top AI researchers Noam Shazeer and John Jumper left Google for OpenAI and Anthropic respectively, despite massive retention payments, signaling that freedom and AGI race upside outweigh pay. Experts say compensation alo…

Sakana AI released Fugu, a model-orchestration product claiming frontier-level performance without single-vendor exposure, and 360 unveiled Tulongfeng as China's answer to Mythos, both capitalizing on Anthropic's suspens…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella promoted 33-year-old Jacob Andreou to EVP of Copilot after just one year at the company, giving him oversight of 11,000 employees. Andreou has merged consumer and enterprise teams, built an AI…

OpenAI has hired former Uber executive Prabhjeet Singh as its Managing Director for India, effective September. Singh, who spent 11 years at Uber and served as President of Uber India and South Asia, will oversee consume…

Herald Media Group and the Korea Future eco-Mobility Service Association co-hosted the Future AI Mobility Summit 2026 in Seoul on Tuesday, bringing together mobility, AI and energy leaders from Korea, China, India and th…

The computer-brain industry (CPU, memory, accelerators) grew from a $15B niche in 1984 to a $350B heavy industry in 2025, nearly doubling from $200B in 2020, driven by AI boom datacenter construction. This explosive grow…

OpenAI may delay its initial public offering to 2027 to stabilize its financial situation, according to reports. Prediction market odds for a 2026 IPO have dropped, with only a 24.5% probability of a listing by December …

Chinese chipmaker Basic Semiconductor is moving forward with an IPO in Hong Kong, betting on silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductors to address the power demands of AI-driven data centers. The company joins a national push …

Moltbook exposed 1.5 million API authentication tokens in a January security breach due to a misconfigured Supabase backend, according to security firm Wiz. The breach, which also leaked 35,000 email addresses and privat…