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OpenAI appointed Prabhjeet Singh, former President of Uber India and South Asia, as its Managing Director for India, effective September 2026. Singh will lead OpenAI's expansion in India, its second-largest ChatGPT marke…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India and South Asia president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, the company's second-largest market after the U.S. Singh will join in September and oversee growth…
Retail investors poured a record $22.5 billion into US-listed semiconductor ETFs in the first half of 2026, with inflows surging 1,200% in a single month as AI demand accelerated. The iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX) ros…
Ventora expanded its AI Business Builder platform to help solo founders launch online businesses by combining specialized AI agents for market validation, product creation, marketing, and customer acquisition, reducing t…
Sanctuary AI appointed board chair Daniel Friedmann as CEO, replacing interim CEO James Wells, who announced his departure as the company shifts to scaling its existing humanoid robot technology. Friedmann, former MDA ex…
OpenAI has delayed its IPO to 2027, expecting AI rival Anthropic to go public first, according to Bloomberg News. The ChatGPT maker had targeted a fall listing, but recent tech stock volatility influenced the revised tim…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced the 73 fellows selected for its inaugural Design Engineer Fellowship, an 8-week cohort of AI-native design leaders from companies like OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, and Google. The fellows …
SpaceX announced Starmind, a project to deploy up to 1 million AI-processing satellites in low Earth orbit, creating a distributed space-based data center. The network, confirmed by Elon Musk on June 23, 2026, will use s…
Liva AI (YC S25), a multimodal data company building inclusive and emotionally intelligent AI, is hiring a Founding Operations Lead to run data collection projects and build automated operations systems. The role involve…
Most U.S. benchmarks rose on Friday, but AI-related stocks dragged Wall Street toward a weekly loss. The S&P 500 recovered to a 0.5% gain, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 194 points, and the Nasdaq was about 0.5% h…
Elon Musk's X Money digital payment venture is expanding to more US premium users on social network X, part of his plan to create an 'everything app.' The tool, which allows peer-to-peer payments and savings, was release…
The FTSE 100 fell 0.2% on Friday as technology stocks declined after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its initial public offering until 2027 due to concerns about market interest. The report weighed on marke…
The AI boom may be entering its final stages as stock volatility surges and companies rush to raise cash, with analysts at Capital Economics warning of an equity bubble close to bursting. The Nasdaq heads for its worst w…
A developer warns that companies in their second year of AI deployment often mistakenly treat AI tools as a fixed cost rather than infrastructure requiring ongoing investment. The hidden labor of prompt refinement, docum…
ON Semiconductor announced an all-stock acquisition of Synaptics for about $7 billion, expanding its push into physical AI. The deal adds $30 billion to ON Semiconductor's addressable market, but its stock fell 20% after…
OpenAI has not held pre-IPO meetings with investors or outlined a timeline for a public listing, according to CNBC, despite having confidentially filed a prospectus with the SEC. The New York Times reports OpenAI is lean…
More than 60 crypto projects shut down in the first half of 2026, including three backed by Andreessen Horowitz's a16z—Yupp, Syndicate Labs, and Entropy—which collectively burned through $87 million. The closures highlig…
AI startup Lindy replaced Anthropic's Claude with Deepseek, a Chinese model hosted in the US, saving millions as AI costs became unsustainable. CEO Flo Crivello said the cost curve 'crashed to the ground' and that switch…
Chip stocks fell Friday after a New York Times report that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027 to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, reversing a brief rally fueled by Micron's strong earnings and Qualcomm's data center ann…
An indie maker spent 90 days building an affiliate revenue channel around AI APIs, earning $3 in the first month but seeing real recurring revenue by month two. The developer, who runs three bootstrapped SaaS products an…