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Marvell Technology, the fabless semiconductor firm, plans to invest $250 million in India to expand its sites in Bangalore and Hyderabad and double its headcount over three years, focusing on AI, cloud, and data infrastr…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman confirmed the company is building 'a family of devices' that will arrive 'soon,' centered on voice interaction with ChatGPT rather than typing. Brockman dismissed Apple's trade-secrets laws…
Moonshot AI, a Beijing-based startup backed by Alibaba, released Kimi K3 in mid-July 2026, an open-weight large language model with 2.8 trillion parameters that achieved the highest score on a popular front-end web codin…
Intropy, an AI software startup for spare-parts businesses, raised an $11 million seed round led by Felix Capital with participation from Quiet Capital, General Catalyst, and firstminute capital, targeting US expansion. …
OpenAI president Greg Brockman announced the company is building a 'family of devices' for ChatGPT that will be voice-first and designed for natural, conversational AI interactions. The devices aim to move beyond typing …
Chinese AI labs have released three models nearly as powerful as America's frontier systems at radically lower costs, threatening the expected hyper-profitability of U.S. labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, which capital mar…
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is now available through Fireworks AI on Microsoft's Foundry platform, giving Azure customers a managed route to run the model via OpenAI-compatible APIs. Fireworks lists Kimi among more than 20 ope…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, DeepSeek finalized V4, and Moonshot AI published the open-weight Kimi K3 (2.8-trillion-parameter MoE model) during the biggest AI release week of 2026, fundamentally reshaping the coding…
Moonshot AI has closed a $3.5 billion funding round at a $35 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg. The Beijing-based company's annual recurring revenue rose from $100 million in March to $300 million in June, and it…
India's plan to acquire a 1-2% equity stake in AI startup Sarvam under the IndiaAI mission, linked to a subsidy covering 40% of a Rs 246.71 crore compute bill for Nvidia GPUs, has raised fair competition concerns. Critic…
Encore AI, still listed in public records as Insait IO, has raised $30 million in a Series A round led by Team8, Planven, The Garage, and Lukatz, according to a report that could not be independently confirmed. The compa…
ByteDance has restructured its AI operations by merging the product teams behind its Doubao AI assistant and Feishu collaboration platform, creating a new Doubao product organization and a Creativity Service Platform for…
Mechanical engineer Rapha won $30,000 in Apify's $1 Million Challenge by building hundreds of Actors on the platform, with revenue growing every month but one since last August. He started with an Instagram AI transcript…
The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode has launched a 20-week executive programme in Product Innovation with AI and Agentic AI targeting working professionals. The course arrives as a McKinsey State of AI Report 20…
Shift, a division of German startup Microagi, provided a free private chef meal to a reporter in San Francisco in exchange for recording the chef's hand movements as training data for robots. The company previously offer…
Agenmatic, a new tool built by a solo developer, launches to help service providers catch high-intent buyers in real-time by monitoring 40+ communities including Reddit, IndieHackers, and HackerNews. The AI-powered platf…
Foundational Industries raised a $25 million seed round led by BoxGroup and Zigg Ventures to build factories where AI runs the entire operation, starting with data-center hardware. CEO Jonathan Winer argues the U.S. shou…
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng told investors on July 23, 2026, that the company prioritizes artificial general intelligence (AGI) over profit and will continue to release its best models as open source. The Chinese AI s…
Revolut has partnered with OpenAI to bundle ChatGPT Go into its subscription plans, offering customers from three months to a year of the service at no extra cost. The fintech, serving over 75 million people, provides th…
LemonLime, a YC S26 startup building no-code AI automations for small businesses, offered guaranteed job interviews to anyone willing to get a permanent tattoo of its logo at a YC Startup School afterparty, with seven pe…