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DDH, a Korean dental AI startup, has developed Pano, an AI tool that analyzes panoramic X-rays and uses color coding to highlight potential dental issues, aiming to bridge the trust gap between patients and dentists. Fou…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector on July 28 with a $100 million strategic investment from Coursera, which values the AI-native learning company at about $300 million. LearnVector is building an AI learning guide that plans…
Jack Ma-backed OceanBase is seeking to raise 2 billion to 3 billion yuan ($295 million to $443 million) in series A funding to expand into AI database services, according to people familiar with the matter. The Beijing-b…
Andrew Ng launched LearnVector, an AI company focused on one-to-one learning experiences, with a $100 million investment from Coursera. The company aims to replace one-size-fits-all courses with personalized AI guides th…
AutoClaw, a new desktop AI assistant, combines office automation, browser automation, and IM workflows into one app, allowing users to generate documents, analyze data, manage social media content, and automate browser t…
Meta Platforms Inc. announced plans to build a $14 billion artificial intelligence data center campus in El Paso, Texas, in collaboration with BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager. The two companies expect t…
The marginal cost of AI inference will approach zero as open models rival frontier models, reshaping the business models of labs like OpenAI and Anthropic toward low-margin inference sales, according to analyst Corey Qui…
Chinese institutions are urging Beijing to take the lead in setting global AI rules, citing a governance vacuum exposed by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, which sparked a policy debate in the US. The open-weight model, near…
OpenAI's first hardware device is a portable, screenless AI smart speaker co-developed with former Apple design chief Jony Ive, expected in early 2027 at a price between $200 and $300. The company is also fast-tracking a…
WisGate's unified API platform offers startups access to top-tier image, video, and coding AI models at prices 20% to 50% below official rates, reducing upfront risk with flexible trial credits and minimal credit-card ba…
Apple Inc. reached a $5 trillion market capitalization milestone as investors rotate away from AI pure-play stocks, reflecting a market shift from AI training to inference and deployment. The move toward edge AI and loca…
Data security company Cyera signed a letter of intent to acquire Oasis Security for approximately $1 billion in a deal expected to be paid mostly in cash, with the remainder in Cyera shares. The acquisition aims to safeg…
Qualcomm Incorporated completed its acquisition of Modular Inc, an AI-native software infrastructure company, on July 29, 2026. The deal combines Modular's software platform with Qualcomm Technologies' compute solutions …
Together AI announced a strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to become the launch platform for Moonshot's open-weight models, starting with Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter sparse Mixture-of-Experts model with native …
Apple became the second company to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, hitting $5.04tn on Tuesday, as investors fled AI and semiconductor stocks amid a broader tech sell-off. The iPhone maker's rally was driven by…
A user reports that Kimi K3, a distilled AI model, matches Anthropic's Opus 4.7/4.8 in response quality while being 5-10x cheaper, demonstrating that distillation enables open models to compete with frontier models. The …
Replit began rolling out model choice on July 28th, starting with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, founder and CEO Amjad Masad said in a post on X. The launch puts an open-weight model directly into Replit's product strategy days …
Cursor cut its India AI coding plan to $7 a month (₹649), the first time it has localized pricing anywhere, using its own models to keep the plan sustainable rather than a loss leader. The startup launched Cursor Start o…
Chinese AI developers may start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, Goldman Sachs told the South China Morning Post, a shift that could alter the economics of China's free…
Fireworks AI released Fireworks Nexus, a drop-in routing and cost-control layer that moves routine coding work to open-weight models, citing a Forbes report that Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on…