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We believe much of the artificial intelligence industry is chasing the wrong prize. Frontier model vendors such as Anthropic PBC and OpenAI Group PBC, they may have shifted their commercial focus towa

Reuters: LSEG: tech companies have raised $3.1B from mainland China stock market listings YTD, up 5x+ from a year earlier, as AI and chip companies drive onshore IPOs — China's onshore technology IPOs

OpenAI reported significant increases in internal Codex token usage across different departments between November 2025 and the reporting period, with Research experiencing the largest growth at 56x, f

Stephen Foley / Financial Times: How AI-native law firms use “management services organization” structures to access capital historically barred from US law firms, including PE and VC funds — Interest

In this post, we explore how Cara, built in cooperation with AWS, addresses these challenges. We walk through the technical design decisions and the AWS services that support the solution. We also sha

The English Office for Students uses Databricks' data platform to analyze higher education data at scale, enabling better monitoring of institutional performance and student outcomes across English un

AI SDK 7 is a major release from Vercel that likely introduces new features, improvements, and capabilities for building AI-powered applications using their SDK. The release may include enhancements t

Vercel released AI SDK version 7, introducing new features and improvements to their JavaScript/TypeScript framework for building AI-powered applications. The update likely includes enhancements to mo

To celebrate its new status as No. 1 in JD Power's initial quality ranking among mainstream automakers, Ford is opening up about the challenges it has faced in recent years, especially around its reli

Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning via gameplay footage, raised 320M led by Khosla at a 2.3B valuation, for $454M in total funding — As soon as

Google launched a redesigned Google Finance in general availability on June 25, 2026, including a dedicated Android app featuring watchlists, real-time market data, financial news, an AI research tool

Chris Metinko / Axios: Nebulock, which helps security teams proactively find and remediate threats across a company's security stack, raised a 25M Series A led by FirstMark — Contextual security start

Will Canny / CoinDesk: Sources: Kraken is in talks to acquire a 15% stake in DeFi protocol Aave at a 385M valuation, investing 35,000 ETH in return for 250,000 AAVE tokens — Crypto exchange Kraken, pa

Wall Street Journal: TRM Labs: Iran-linked wallets, including those tied to Iran's central bank, have moved over 3.84B in transactions through the crypto exchange CoinEx since 2019 — Iranian entities

Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Upside, which provides social workers with AI-powered housing insights, raised a 20M Series A led by Aquiline with Flare Capital, 645, and others participating — fu

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: AI creative tools startup Krea, which has raised $83M and claims to have 30M users, releases the open weights for its image model Krea 2 under a custom license — While many

Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: Chinese cybersecurity company 360 unveils new AI tools: Tulongfeng, which it claims is “China's version of Mythos”, and Yitianzhen, to automate cyber defense — Chinese cybe

Voice artificial intelligence testing startup Coval Inc. revealed today that it has raised 28 million in new funding to expand its platform as more enterprises put voice agents into production. Founde

Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: Humanoid robot maker Agility plans to go public via a merger with Michael Klein's SPAC, in a deal valuing it at ~$2.5B and listing under ticker symbol AGLT — Agili

The FFASR Leaderboard is a benchmarking platform introduced by Hugging Face for evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems on real-world performance metrics. It provides a standardized eval

Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: Runlayer, which provides an infrastructure and control layer for enterprise AI agents, raised a 30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to 42M — When longti

CUGA is a lightweight framework from IBM Research for building agentic AI applications, featuring two dozen practical working examples. The framework enables developers to create autonomous AI agents

With the AI factory becoming a key focus in enterprise IT, hybrid architecture has become equally important as organizations seek to generate workloads on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge. This

Vercel announced a feature enabling developers to deploy Node.js servers without requiring configuration files or setup steps. This simplification likely leverages Vercel's platform capabilities to au

Prosper AI Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence software for healthcare organizations, today announced that it has raised 30 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Andreessen Horowit

The national conversation about the value of education is currently dominated by speculation about the risks and positive potential of AI. Whatever your own perspective on that debate, I hope you’ll b

Bloomberg: Sources: Hadrian, which is building AI-powered factories to produce space and defense parts, is in talks to raise ~1B at a ~7.5B post-money valuation — Company runs AI-powered factories tha

Right now, MIT alumni and friends are voicing their support for: America’s scientific and technological leadership Merit-based admissions and affordable education Advances that increase US health, sec

Protecting sensitive data used with AI is a critical part of our commitment to providing advanced and secure cloud infrastructure. Confidential Computing cryptographically protects data in use in hard

The Information: xLight, a startup developing advanced lasers for EUV machines, told investors that it is in talks to raise 350M led by Boardman Bay and Bain Capital — XLight, a startup developing adv

Chevrolet's Corvette ZR1X, powered by a hybrid all-wheel drive system with 1,250 horsepower, set a new Pikes Peak production car record at the 104th running of the hill climb. Driven by IndyCar vetera

Vercel's Chat SDK has integrated support for Novu, a notification infrastructure platform, enabling developers to add notification capabilities to their chat applications. This integration allows for

Vercel's Chat SDK has added integration support for Sendblue, enabling developers to incorporate Sendblue's messaging capabilities into their chat applications. This expansion allows for broader messa

Nearfield Instruments B.V., which specializes in producing advanced chip manufacturing equipment, revealed today it has gotten a massive 380 million capital injection. The Dutch company’s Series D rou

Samsung Electronics deployed OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex tools to its employees, integrating AI capabilities into their workforce operations. This implementation likely enabled Samsung staff to leverag

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: Applied Materials opens a 500M chip equipment manufacturing campus in Singapore, making the city-state home to ~50% of its production capacity alongside the US — SINGAPO

OpenAI models and Codex are available to Oracle Cloud customers through an integrated partnership, allowing users to access these AI capabilities within their existing Oracle cloud infrastructure and

Databricks offers an AI serving platform designed to flexibly accommodate different machine learning models and their specific requirements. The platform likely provides features for deploying, scalin

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Alex Karp says Palantir's enterprise customers are “unhappy” with how the frontier labs are operating, believing the labs only care about tokenmaxxing — - Palantir CEO Alex Karp

Databricks announced a storage ecosystem that enables organizations to govern and manage enterprise data across multiple storage locations and cloud environments. The solution addresses the need for u

Artificial intelligence is creating a new class of cloud cost problem — one that no longer belongs exclusively to engineers. As AI tools put spend capabilities into the hands of sales, finance and exe

AWS and Databricks showcased their collaborative efforts to advance real-world AI innovation at the 2026 Data + AI Summit. The partnership demonstrates how the two companies are working together to ac

Together AI has achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification, demonstrating its commitment to information security management and data protection standards required for enterprise AI deployments. This certif

Raphael Satter / Reuters: CISA shortens the deadline for US agencies to fix the most critical vulnerabilities in their networks to three days, citing hackers' use of AI — The U.S. cyber defense agency

As generative AI accelerates from a product experiment into a core enterprise operating cost, the discipline of FinOps is evolving rapidly around managing AI spend, introducing a layer of complexity t

As enterprises accelerate past AI experimentation into full-scale production, the central challenge has shifted from accessing models to managing the organizational context those models need to act re