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Meshy, an AI-powered 3D creation platform, is transitioning from a consumer app to an enterprise platform, scaling its generative AI tools for 3D modeling. The company aims to serve businesses with automated 3D content g…
Colin Petrie-Norris, founder of Xumo, is launching Fairground AI Creator TV, a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channel dedicated exclusively to AI-generated shows and films, set to debut next month across f…
Freehand, a San Francisco startup, closed a $75 million Series B on July 29 to expand its autonomous AI agents that handle supply-chain spending decisions for Fortune 500 companies including Meta, Unilever, Pfizer, and J…
Nvidia has been identified as the undisclosed investment-grade tenant behind two 15-year leases at Hut 8's Beacon Point AI campus in Nueces County, Texas, with a combined base value of $19.6 billion that could reach $50.…
Hedgefonden Situational Awareness, grundad av AI-forskaren Leopold Aschenbrenner, tvingas sälja alla sina börsnoterade innehav efter ett ras i AI-aktier, rapporterar CNBC. Fonden, som förvaltar omkring 20 miljarder dolla…
Citadel, Ken Griffin's hedge fund giant, has acquired a stock portfolio from Situational Awareness LP, the AI-focused fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, after the fund suffered significant lo…
Software companies are shifting to selling work rather than software, enabled by agentic systems like Claude Code that wrap LLMs in a 'harness' layer providing agency to execute tasks, according to a Jul 30, 2026 analysi…
Friend CEO Avi Schiffmann announced the second iteration of the Friend AI pendant, which now includes a speaker for voice responses and runs on OpenAI's latest models. The device costs $249, up from the original $129, wi…
British AI cloud provider Nscale is acquiring Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed computing framework, for approximately $1.65 billion in a deal announced July 30 and expected to close in the second half of …
Scale AI, the AI data labeling company, has appointed a former Google Cloud executive as its new CEO amid Meta's $15 billion investment for a 49% stake in the company. The leadership change comes as Scale AI's data annot…
A new generation of Mexican entrepreneurs is using AI skills gained through Microsoft's Elevate program to solve local challenges, including water-efficient farming in Ciudad Juárez. Since its launch in September 2024, E…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness LP, an AI-focused hedge fund that managed roughly $20-24 billion, liquidated its entire public equity book after margin calls from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Bank of Americ…
British AI neocloud Nscale is acquiring software startup Anyscale for $1.65 billion to expand its AI compute stack. Anyscale, built on the open-source Ray framework, provides workload management and scaling for large lan…
Cloud infrastructure provider Nscale has agreed to acquire AI software startup Anyscale in a deal valued at approximately $1.65 billion, the companies announced Thursday. The acquisition aims to help clients better manag…
Job postings for forward-deployed engineers surged over 1,000% year-over-year through early 2026, as a study by MIT NANDA found 95% of 300 public enterprise AI projects showed little or no measurable profit-and-loss impa…
Scale AI, a data labeling company, has appointed former Google Cloud executive Amit Zavery as its new CEO, effective immediately. Zavery, who previously served as vice president and general manager of Google Cloud's Apig…
Simile, a year-old startup, has raised $200 million at a $2 billion valuation to build "agentic twins" — AI stand-ins for real consumers that companies can survey by the million. Greenoaks led the round, with Index Ventu…
A grant program needs five components to be effective: money, taste, dealflow, hustle, and trust, according to an analysis drawing on experience with platforms like Manifund. The author argues that improving dealflow and…
Liang Wenfeng, founder of Chinese quant trading firm High-Flyer and AI lab DeepSeek, is viewed abroad as a symbol of China's technological rise after DeepSeek's R1 model trained at a fraction of Western costs, but Chines…
Sakana AI, a Tokyo-based AI company, has released four products in rapid succession since March 2026, including Sakana Chat, Sakana Marlin, Sakana Fugu, and Sakana Translate. Sota Omura, head of product development, expl…