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Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents, taking on Stripe. One-year-old startup targets financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
aitechfundingbusinessChinese Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is described as the biggest open-source AI model ever built, raising question of rivaling Anthropic and OpenAI.
aitechAI infrastructure company Infinity raised $15M at a $100M valuation from Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
aitechfundingXpeng loses its AI infrastructure chief to OpenAI's robotics push, report says
aitechbusinessKen Griffin reveals Citadel's internal agentic AI system compressed six to eight weeks of PhD-level research into two or three hours. Citadel cut zero jobs.@karlmehtaaitechresearchbusiness
Jeff Bezos backs $2.6 billion AI startup teaming up with Nvidia and Meta to tackle a chip industry challenge
aitechfundingbusinessMoonshot and Alibaba unveiled AI models they claim rival OpenAI and Anthropic's best at a fraction of the cost.
aitechbusinessOpenAI launches ChatGPT Work workspace; Meta explores $10B AI compute partnership with Anthropic; China unveils global AI strategy at WAIC 2026.@IQofficialaitechfundingbusiness
Adobe's Project Indigo camera app, launched for a natural SLR-like iPhone look, is being updated with generative AI tools not based on Adobe's own Firefly models.
aitechOpenAI has plenty of compute and a reliable training process; Anthropic stumbled with Sonnet 5, Opus 4.6-4.8 marginal gains. OpenAI to release GPT-6, then frequent 6.1 updates@haider1aitech
Anthropic expands Claude Fable 5 to Max/Team Premium July 20; HeyGen adds media library with 10K+ tracks, 75K+ images; Google releases gemma-trainer Skill.@AINativeFaitech
CuspAI raises €393.2 million at €2.2 billion valuation; launches AI Materials Foundry to accelerate materials discovery
aitechfundingresearchChina's Kimi K3 emerges as a challenger to Anthropic and OpenAI's AI models.
aitechNetflix paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.
aitechfundingbusinessGemini Enterprise Agent Platform leads enterprise AI governance as OpenAI starts billing for agents.
aitechbusinessAlibaba unveils Qwen3.8 Max AI model, challenging Anthropic's dominance
aitechA curated list of X accounts to follow for AI news: leaks on Anthropic's roadmap, OpenAI leaks, model jailbreaks, and hidden API leaks.@suraj_sharma14aitech
Tech employees clash with executives over light-touch AI regulation; OpenAI staff and co-founder Greg Brockman spar over political spending.
aipoliticalbusinessElon Musk admits he underestimated Anthropic's AI, a development that Amazon and Alphabet investors should take notice of.
aitechbusinessDeepMind's CEO is calling for US-led frontier AI tests
aitechpoliticalOpenAI Policy Chief Dean Ball calls open weight AI a dystopian hellscape.
aitechMeta's fast-tracked gas plants in Ohio spotlight the hidden energy cost of AI
aitechbusinessengineeringYang Zhilin, co-founder of Moonshot AI (maker of Kimi), born 1992 in Shantou, China; studied CS at Tsinghua, PhD at Carnegie Mellon.@marcthecreatorraitechresearch
Meta is putting its in-house Iris AI chip into production in September, part of a plan to double its computing capacity to 14 gigawatts.
aitechengineeringbusinessTrump Administration seeks control over who gets OpenAI and Anthropic's most powerful AI models, report says.
aipoliticaltechAnthropic and OpenAI accuse Chinese AI companies of 'distillation'; billionaire Chamath Palihapitiy responds.
aitechMeta and Anthropic discuss $10B AI infrastructure agreement.
aitechfundingbusinessAI chip startup Etched is in talks for a $20 billion valuation
aitechfundingDatabricks hits $188B valuation, has remade its image into an AI company and published research on cost savings of open weight AI models for coding.
aitechfundingbusinessZuckerberg's plan to sell excess AI compute could find its first big customer in Anthropic.
aitechbusinessJobs in occupations most exposed to AI increased by 4%, according to Chicago Fed.
aibusinesschicagoresearchDavid Sacks says US is 'tying itself in knots' over AI, risking its edge, after Chinese startup Moonshot AI released new model Kimi K3.
aitechpoliticalLatest Chinese AI model reaffirms OpenAI and Anthropic need to continue to invest, says Creative Strategies CEO
aitechNuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation, amid trend of multi-stage rounds masking true entry prices.
fundingtechbusinessMeta spends $145B on AI, pays $14.3B for one Scale AI hire, renames AI division Superintelligence Labs, signs $100B AMD chip deal, $27B Blue Owl data center deal; Reality Labs lost $90B+@k1rallikaitechfundingbusiness
Top 10 AI/ICT/Robotics roundup: Weave Robotics launches Isaac, a mobile humanoid robot for household/office use; Japanese robotics firms team with Nvidia against China; Monumental secures...@ivke2006aitechengineering
TSMC raises outlook: expects $60-64B annual capex, projects 40%+ YoY revenue growth, reported 77.4% increase in quarterly net income.@MTSlivebusinesstechengineering
OpenAI, Google, Meta and others donated to both parties' attorney general groups as AGs move to regulate AI. xAI also contributed.
aipoliticalfundingbusinessOpenAI's CFO outlines 4 questions to determine if AI spending is paying off.
aibusinessKey takeaways on AI contracting from Loeb & Loeb's AI Summit held in Chicago
aichicagoeventsbusinessJefferies eyes an AMD-Anthropic deal as AMD's Advancing AI 2026 event nears.
aitechbusinesseventsAI startups are taking huge seed funding, making it harder for pre-seed founders; TechCrunch Disrupt session addresses getting pre-seed funding without a product.
aifundingeventsOpenAI's CFO pitches a new way to measure AI's value
aibusinessA $400 million chip-backed loan signals the next wave of AI infrastructure deals as GPU financiers turn to inference chips.
aitechfundingbusinessAI is becoming a commodity, posing a problem for OpenAI and Anthropic, according to WSJ.
aitechbusinessOpenAI launches Codex Micro, a physical keypad for controlling AI agents.@Waivlyaitech
FIS and Anthropic expand partnership to apply frontier AI to financial infrastructure security.
aitechbusinessOpenAI shipped 150+ Codex updates in 2 months, including parallel agents: one researches, one writes content, one checks quality, one builds the page.@JulianGoldieSEOaitechengineering
AI-generated submission won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize, sparking discussion on Hacker News
aitechresearchApple sues OpenAI and New York imposes AI data center moratorium, per The Social Skinny roundup.
aitechpoliticalbusinessAI hardware startup Aina raises $5.5 million in a round led by Redstart Labs and 360 ONE Asset
aitechfundingNewsletter: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab drops open-weight AI model Inkling under Apache 2.0 license, no restrictions. Also: 10.7X LLM inference speedup via LMCache.@rohanpaul_aiaitechengineeringresearch