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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on the company's Q2 earnings call that a 'significant portion' of its compute will go toward training AI models and powering agents, but the company also expects to grow a large business ser…
Microsoft's enterprise AI business is surging, expanding OpenAI's influence, while SambaNova emerges as a company to watch, according to a July 30, 2026 analysis by Tom Krazit. The report also highlights SK Hynix's long-…
Dili, an AI compliance startup targeting U.S. infrastructure projects, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total capital to $21.7 million. The company's software, already used on about…
Samsung Electronics reported a record operating profit of 89.5 trillion won ($62 billion) for the April-June period, a 19-fold increase from a year earlier, driven by AI chip demand. Despite the record, Samsung's shares …
Microsoft and Meta reported quarterly earnings on July 29 showing different financial pressures from AI infrastructure spending. Microsoft spent $41 billion on capital expenditures as Azure revenue grew 43%, while Meta s…
Samsung reported record second-quarter earnings from its semiconductor division, driven by surging global demand for AI server memory chips, but the AI boom is also exposing weaknesses in its foundry business and raising…
Onyx Security, a two-year-old startup with offices in Tel Aviv and New York, raised $113 million in a Series B round led by Bessemer Venture Partners on July 29, reaching a $640 million valuation. The company's AI contro…
ByteDance's projected annual AI revenue of US$4 billion is the largest known to the public among Chinese rivals, as the Beijing-based company restructures its office tool Lark by integrating its product team into the Dou…
Intropy, a startup founded by Oxford physicist Franziska Kirschner, has raised $11 million to apply AI automation to the spare parts industry, aiming to streamline inventory management and supply chain logistics.
Nscale, led by CEO Josh Payne, has agreed to acquire Anyscale for about $1.65 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal gives the AI infrastructure provider control of Ray, the distributed computing framework used to man…
Microsoft stock rose while Meta stock fell after both reported quarterly earnings, as investors showed impatience with AI spending. Microsoft posted Q4 2026 revenue of $90 billion, up 18%, and adjusted EPS of $4.74, beat…
Nscale, the AI cloud operator that builds its own data centers and generates its own power, has agreed to buy Anyscale, the company behind the Ray distributed-computing framework, in a deal announced on July 30, 2026. Th…
Mbodi AI (YC P25), an embodied AI platform that enables industrial robots to learn skills through natural language, is hiring robotics and research engineers. Backed by top investors and partnered with global industrial …
Freight Hero, a Durham, North Carolina startup, has raised $5 million in a seed round led by Field Ventures to run freight brokers' back-office operations for a flat fee per load, using AI agents to handle over 90% of cu…
Google DeepMind has disbanded the dedicated research team behind AlphaFold, the Nobel Prize-winning protein-structure prediction system, according to a Financial Times report. Nobel laureate John Jumper, who served as vi…
Meta shares fell roughly 9% after Q2 earnings per share of $6.18 missed the $7.14 consensus, dragged down by $3.6 billion in legal and severance charges and a 91% decline in free cash flow, while Microsoft surged 9% afte…
A new State of AI Report from DVC, a venture firm that has tracked the AI market for a decade, reveals five underappreciated truths about the AI economy, including that five-person teams now routinely challenge $100 bill…
Eliyan, a Santa Clara-based chip interconnect startup backed by Cisco, raised $145 million in an oversubscribed Series C round at a $1 billion valuation to develop advanced interconnects for AI systems.
Credible Data, a startup using the open-source Malloy semantic modeling language to provide accurate business context for AI agents, announced a $10 million seed round from Gradient, SignalFire, and K5 Global. In a VB Pu…
Relation Therapeutics unveiled MORGAN, a cellular foundation model, and an expanded collaboration with GSK worth up to $110 million to generate the biological data needed to train it. The London startup's automated labs …