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Alphabet announced an $85 billion equity raise to fund AI infrastructure, while Big Tech companies have already sold $159 billion in bonds in 2026, surpassing their total from 2020-2024. Fidelity advised clients to shift…
Napster has relaunched as an AI platform offering video-capable, persistent-memory agents that can serve as specialists, digital twins, and collaborative tools. The company released multiple products including the Napste…
Mercor co-founder Brendan Foody publicly accused Sequoia Capital of using a 'dual-pricing' tactic in which the firm invests at two different valuations, allowing startups to announce a higher headline figure while Sequoi…
Om Malik, the influential technology journalist and investor who founded the blog Gigaom, died Wednesday at age 59 in Palo Alto, California, after a long heart condition. His blog shaped Silicon Valley media by blending …
Apple vice president Paul Meade, who led the Vision Pro headset and smart glasses development, is leaving to join OpenAI's hardware team. The departure follows John Ternus' impending promotion to Apple CEO and a restruct…
Multiverse Computing launched Pulsar 16B, an open-source reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture that achieves performance comparable to 30B-parameter models while using half the compute. The model, relea…
AI developers and donors have pledged $275 million toward political races, with AI companies and affiliated groups spending at least $83 million on federal elections in 2025 and tens of millions more on state-level campa…
Investor Michael Burry purchased long-dated call options on Microsoft, buying December 2028 LEAPs with strikes in the low $700s. Microsoft shares rose about 1% in pre-market trading after the disclosure. Burry also argue…
Major technology companies have shifted their AI startup strategy from outright acquisitions toward minority investments, joint ventures, and commercial partnerships, according to The Hindu Business Line. Analysts say mi…
Domo founder Josh James was arrested for DUI after crashing his BMW into a mailbox, and the company faces a cash crunch with $137 million in debt, forcing it to seek a sale. The once-$2.8 billion software firm has seen i…
Two weeks after the US government ordered Anthropic to cut global access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Asian AI labs have released competing models. Japan's Sakana AI launched Fugu, a frontier-class orchestrator model, while …
Austin Chen and Oliver Habryka discussed plans to improve the AI safety funding ecosystem with a better S-Process platform and a new incubator for EA/AIS software projects called Surplus. Habryka criticized philanthropy …
Notion will shut down Notion Mail on September 22, 2026, citing that more than half of users now manage email through AI agents without opening the inbox. The company is going all-in on agent-based email workflows, advis…
The Golden State Warriors announced a jersey sponsorship deal with IREN, an AI cloud provider, worth $50 million per year. Warriors owner Joe Lacob said the team is embracing AI across the organization, while IREN founde…
SaaStr founder Jason Lemkin reported that the company's inbound AI agent, Amelia, booked 614 qualified sponsor meetings from 442,000 chats at the SaaStr AI Annual 2026 event, replacing the equivalent of 3-10 BDRs. The ag…
OpenAI has appointed former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, effective September. Singh will oversee growth, partnerships, and regulatory engagement in OpenAI's second-larges…
Meta holds 84% of the global smart glasses market in Q1 2026, shipping 7.4 million units in 2025—a 281% year-over-year increase—driven by AI-powered Ray-Ban glasses starting at $299, while competitors collectively accoun…
Andy has joined Simple AI as employee #16, taking on a forward deployed role after previous stints at Scale AI and as a cofounder of Shuffle. He expresses enthusiasm for working alongside cofounder and CTO Zach, citing a…
The Federal Trade Commission fast-tracked Elon Musk's acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, granting early termination of an antitrust review, while the same agency spent years investigating his Twitter purchase. The…
Hyoomn, a new service from Fairpixels, offers weekly async design reviews for B2B SaaS teams that use AI to code, providing actionable feedback on UI, UX, and brand for $1,950/month. The service targets teams whose AI-ge…