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Blue Origin announced its first external funding round on July 8, 2026, aiming to raise 10 billion with a 130 billion post-money valuation. This marks the first significant outside investment since it
BREAKING: SpaceX’s Starship just got another lunar customer. Japan’s ispace will use SpaceX’s Starship for Moon cargo missions. • ispace signed an agreement with SpaceX to secure 500 kg of payload cap
OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like 'talking to another person.' The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to co
Correct Grok 4.5 goes public tomorrow. Here’s everything that’s known. The model runs on V9, xAI’s new 1.5 trillion parameter foundation, roughly three times the size of the v8-small architecture behi
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: Crypto VC firm Paradigm raised 1.2B, its fourth fund, to invest in areas outside of crypto, like AI and robotics; Paradigm had 11.9B in AUM at the end of 2025 — Paradigm,
Supply chain artificial intelligence startup DeepFabric today announced the general availability of an AI agent platform built for supply chain execution, and a roster of enterprise customers is alrea
The next generation of AI is evolving from a tool into a platform where models, applications, and human workflows converge to create integrated operating environments capable of automating tasks and e
Radhika Rajkumar / ZDNET: Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke's Entire launches a decentralized Git network to handle high coding agent traffic, with servers in the US, the EU, and Australia — ZDNET's key
Kaon AI, a generative artificial intelligence platform and research outfit formerly known as FlowGPT that provides online interactive entertainment, today announced it has raised 60 million across rec
A 66-year-old Pennsylvania man, Harry Tiffany IV, was arrested for allegedly using xAI's Grok AI tool to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) , which he uploaded or shared through Grok between Ap
The soundbite is from my US congress testimony 3 years ago btw haha https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1673348676478025730 This is my 5-minute testimony before the US Congress! Open science and open
We raised 130M @ 1B for our series A To build the open superintelligence stack for everyone Pre-training concentrated frontier AI in a handful of labs. RL changes who can build frontier AI and just wo
Agentic go-to-market automation startup Alta AI Inc. said today it has raised 25 million in an early-stage round of funding as it tries to accelerate its mission to enhance customer acquisition for en
A recent NYT article by @CadeMetz [1] claims that neural network distillation was first developed in 2015 by a team of Google researchers including G. Hinton [2]. Not true! I published the technique i
Anthropic PBC today announced it’s bringing its Claude Cowork agentic artificial intelligence assistant to mobile and the web, breaking it free from the desktop. Cowork allows users to harness the com
Anthropic PBC will pay 19 billion to lease a TeraWulf Inc. data center for 20 years. TeraWulf, a Nasdaq-listed developer of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced the deal today. The compan
Financial Times: Apple's interest in buying CXMT chips has thrust the Chinese memory chip maker and its relationship with Beijing into the AI supply chain spotlight — Sharp turnaround for state-backed
Microsoft's fifth wave of Xbox layoffs in July 2026 resulted in approximately 3,200 job losses, with Bethesda Game Studios losing at least 35 employees and id Software being hit particularly hard, rep
DOGE shut down USAID, established by JFK in 1961. Before being shut down, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldw
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk: EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform, raised a 76M Series C led by SBI Holdings — EDX Markets, an institutional cryptocurrency trading platform
Hello, my dear friends, we have some breaking news today! Our rentosertib (novel target that has never been in clinical trials before we picked it using AI, novel molecule designed using true generati
SK hynix Inc., the South Korean firm that rivals Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Micron Technology Inc. as one of the world’s top memory chipmakers, said today it will sell almost 17.8 million shares
Wall Street Journal: OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are offering startups token credits and special promotions, as the AI labs seek lasting streams of enterprise revenue — Pitched battle for
Record-breaking memory chip sales and prices are set to drive a 19-fold increase in Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s second-quarter operating profit, according to a preliminary earnings report issued by
Gary Marcus reflects on his 2023 prediction that large language models would become commoditized, noting that this outcome is now materializing. The post suggests that LLMs are transitioning from nove
A year after cutting around 9,100 employees, Microsoft is making further layoffs today as it begins its new financial year. The software maker is laying off around 4,800 employees today, approximately
Even Realities Ltd., a Shenzhen-based smart glasses startup, has raised 150 million in funding at a 1 billion valuation. TechCrunch reported today that the round was led by Meituan, China’s largest fo
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 3
The glorification of insider trading is a disturbing new trend that I’ll never understand Be leopold > wife is chief of staff at Anthropic > get insider info at the dinner table > learn that Anthropic
Xbox announced approximately 3,200 layoffs throughout fiscal 2027 as part of the most significant restructure in its history , with 1,600 staff cut immediately on July 6, 2026 . Four video game studio
This post likely discusses FireworksAI's fast inference capabilities and their implications or surprising effectiveness in the AI inference space. The post is from Sonya Huang, associated with SemiAna
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp’s recent broadside against the frontier model vendors put a knife to the throat of the central enterprise artificial intelligence debate. Karp’s ar
Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 explains why all the West Coast VCs missed on investing in Groq: “Typical West Coast VCs are more like lemmings. Ttypical East Coast VCs all think that they're smarter th
Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy,
Kieran Smith / Financial Times: Sources: Uber halts plans to launch food delivery in five of the seven European countries it had targeted for expansion as it pursues a Delivery Hero takeover — Ride-ha
When people discuss China vs. US competition over AI it would help if they specified the grounds of competition because there are divergent beliefs on what the actual game is, or if there is a game at
Wow… this is amazing This latest episode of the @theallinpod is a complete referendum of closed source AI (ie. Anthropic/OAI) in a way I haven’t yet heard from industry leaders Open source AI is about
arXiv:2607.01647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data science aims to derive actionable insights from heterogeneous raw data, unlocking the value of the massive amounts of data generated in modern so
A chip industry association has urged the White House not to make major changes to the way the memory market is regulated. The group, SEMI, represents most of the world’s major semiconductor equipment
India's first space unicorn is preparing for its first orbital launch , with Skyroot Aerospace developing the Vikram series of launch vehicles . In 2025, SpaceX posted a net loss of $4.9 billion , hig
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: An interview with Amazon SVP of Devices Panos Panay on designing custom chips for Echo and Fire TV devices, experimenting with AI-enabled gadgets, and more — Amazon is focusing o
BREAKING: Japan is testing Starlink-powered fire hydrant signs as emergency communication hubs. • Japan has approximately 120,000 fire hydrant signs installed nationwide. • The technical demonstration
arXiv:2410.22526v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: To effectively address potential harms from Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, it is essential to identify and mitigate system-level hazards. Cur
This post likely discusses issues of model ownership and intellectual property rights in AI development, particularly regarding concerns about who controls trained model weights and the underlying neu
As AI moves from model development to production inference, compute demand is accelerating and shifting toward continuously operating AI factories that generate tokens at scale. This shift requires ac
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Fin
Our CEO @vipulved on @CNBC with @dee_bosa: your data is your recipe. As models get smarter, sending proprietary workflows, customer context, and business logic into closed systems becomes a strategic
Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Alex Karp appeared to go into meltdown mode during an interview with CNBC today where for 20-odd minutes he went off script after being asked to discuss his
Japanese technology conglomerate Softbank Group Corp. and its telecommunications subsidiary SoftBank Corp. are planning to launch a new neocloud business in the U.S. that will rent access to artificia
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Source: crypto payments and settlement startup Mesh is raising funding led by Binance at a ~2B valuation, six months after raising 75M at a 1B valuation — Binance is set to lead
Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about 'feeding it into the woodchipper.' One year ag
British data intelligence startup StirlingX Ltd. has raised 20 million in an early-stage round to accelerate product development and push into new markets. StirlingX describes itself as a data intelli
The Narrative Strategy of Sam Altman on CNBC today… Some notes from discussing this ‘we will give America 5% of OpenAI’ idea… 1 - Strategically it makes sense for OpenAI to Invite This Matrix-multipli
Dean Takahashi / GamesBeat: Tripo AI, which is developing 3D foundation models and world models for use in games, raised 150M, a month after it said it raised 200M — Tripo AI, a global artificial inte
Physical artificial intelligence is becoming an industrial robotics problem. The market is shifting from software-only automation toward machines that must sense, decide and act in physical settings.
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Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: Z.ai launches ZCode, an “Agentic Development Environment” optimized for its new GLM-5.2 model; Z.ai's GLM Coding Plan costs from 16.20 to 144 per month — The move marks th
Team Aligned Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence to streamline deal execution for corporate buyers and sellers, said today it has clinched 60 million in a new round of funding. PeakSpan
Together AI announced an $800 million Series C funding round to support its mission of advancing open-source artificial intelligence development and deployment. The funding will be used to accelerate
As generative AI tools continue to evolve, we believe it's more important than ever to know what's AI-generated and what isn't. That’s why @GoogleDeepMind launched SynthID in 2023—a technology that ad