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About 40 activists gathered in New York's Sara D. Roosevelt Park to protest AI and OpenAI, calling for a boycott of ChatGPT and accusing AI companies of lobbying against regulation and attempting to buy elections. The pr…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed a confidential IPO, positioning it as the most valuable AI startup. Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia hold stakes, while export…
9 Mothers, a Y Combinator-backed defense startup, is selling Edda, an AI-powered point-defense turret designed to stop small FPV suicide drones at close range. The Austin-based company has sold $1.6 million of systems to…
Micron, the Boise-based memory chip maker, has seen its market cap surge to nearly $1.27 trillion, briefly surpassing Meta and Tesla, as Wall Street bets on sustained AI-driven demand for its memory chips. The company's …
Firmus Technologies struck a strategic partnership with Nvidia to deploy 170,000 Nvidia GPUs in Batam, Indonesia, turning the Australian AI infrastructure builder into a reseller of Nvidia-powered cloud capacity. The dea…
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies partnered with Nvidia to build its first data center in Indonesia, expanding its Asia-Pacific footprint. The company, which pivoted from crypto mining to AI, has r…
Firmus Technologies, an Australian company that pivoted from Bitcoin mining to AI infrastructure, has joined Nvidia's DGX Cloud Lepton marketplace as a Cloud Partner, deploying tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs across the…
Qualcomm acquired AI startup Modular for $3.9 billion on June 24, 2026, to challenge NVIDIA's CUDA software dominance with Modular's Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine, which enable AI developers to write…
Sunnyvale ranked No. 7 among midsize cities in CoworkingCafe's annual study of top cities for college graduates, slipping from second place last year due to a $22,400 income correction and rising youth unemployment. The …
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually starting in fiscal year 202…
Google account executive Yousuf Imran, who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company in April to found AI startup Mangosteen Studio, citing FOMO around the AI boom and layoffs at Google. Business Insider publi…
Framework Ventures closed a $400 million fourth fund, oversubscribed, with half already deployed into AI, robotics, and energy, including a $60 million Series A in Mecka AI and a stake in Better.com. Co-founder Michael A…
A new 'MANIA' trade comprising five AI hardware stocks is emerging as a replacement for the Magnificent 7, with two leveraged ETFs offering hedged exposure to the hot tickers.
Persistent Systems and Nagarro announced an all-cash takeover offer at EUR 81 per share, valuing Nagarro at approximately EUR 1 billion. The merger creates a $2.9 billion digital engineering entity with 46,000+ engineers…
The auto repair industry, with 280,000 largely undigitized shops in the US, is seeing a convergence of AI receptionists, predictive scheduling, and private equity rollups targeting a $3.4 billion software market projecte…
Wall Street analysts say the AI-driven stock market rally is not a bubble about to pop, despite surging costs and lofty valuations. Micron's blockbuster earnings reassured investors that AI spending remains on track, but…
Emerging market ETFs are increasingly tied to the AI chip trade as South Korea and Taiwan funds surpass China-focused funds in assets, pulling investors into the same global semiconductor cycle driving US tech. The shift…
Yousuf Imran, a former Google Cloud account executive earning nearly $1 million in 2025, left the company in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab for sales tools. Imran cited the equity gap between Bi…
Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former Google account executive who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab building sales tools. He cited fears of layoffs and a des…
Cursor acquired open-source AI coding assistant Continue.dev in a quiet acqui-hire on June 16 and is shutting the product down. All user data will be permanently deleted on July 15, with no migration path provided. Users…