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General news and updates from the AI startup ecosystem. Coverage of artificial intelligence industry developments.
Z.ai and Moonshot AI founders' Tsinghua ties now define a Chinese LLM rivalry
Z.ai and Moonshot AI founders' Tsinghua ties now define a Chinese LLM rivalry The Wall Street Journal profiled Tang Jie, founder of Z.ai, and Yang Zhilin, founder of Moonshot AI, tracing how the two w...
Nvidia Tells Major Customers AI Chip Server Prices Are Rising Over 15%
Nvidia Tells Major Customers AI Chip Server Prices Are Rising Over 15% Nvidia has told some of its biggest customers — the companies that build AI data centers for hyperscalers including Oracle and Mi...
PandaAI closes seed-to-angel-plus rounds worth tens of millions of RMB to build an AI-native quant trading platform.
PandaAI closes seed-to-angel-plus rounds worth tens of millions of RMB to build an AI-native quant trading platform. Li Yuqi, 26, left a partner role at a Chinese quant private fund managing over RMB...
OpenAI Reverses Course, Backs Stronger California AI Safety Bill SB 53
OpenAI Reverses Course, Backs Stronger California AI Safety Bill SB 53 OpenAI's global affairs team posted on LinkedIn calling for California to expand SB 53's safeguards, specifically urging monitori...
Kakao Splits Into Kakao AI and Kakao X to Sharpen Its AI Focus
Kakao Splits Into Kakao AI and Kakao X to Sharpen Its AI Focus Kakao's board approved a corporate spin-off on August 21 that divides the company into two entities: Kakao AI and Kakao X. The split rati...
OpenAI narrows Anthropic's enterprise lead as business AI spending proves volatile
OpenAI narrows Anthropic's enterprise lead as business AI spending proves volatile New data from corporate card and expense platform Ramp shows OpenAI clawing back share of U.S. business AI spending a...
Micro1 Reaches $500M Gross Run Rate as AI Training Data Demand Surges
Micro1 Reaches $500M Gross Run Rate as AI Training Data Demand Surges AI training-data startup Micro1 has expanded its gross annual run rate from $100 million to $500 million in eight months, accordin...
Unitree Robotics began trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on August 19, with shares opening at RMB 1,...
Unitree Robotics began trading on Shanghai’s STAR Market on August 19, with shares opening at RMB 1,100, up 629% from the IPO price of RMB 150.80, giving the company a market value of approximately RM...
VeriSilicon reports 91% first-half revenue growth as AI orders reach 90% of backlog
VeriSilicon reports 91% first-half revenue growth as AI orders reach 90% of backlog Chinese semiconductor design company VeriSilicon posted first-half revenue of RMB 1.864 billion (~$261 million), up...
Manus, the AI agent startup that was briefly acquired by Meta before Beijing forced a reversal, is n...
Manus, the AI agent startup that was briefly acquired by Meta before Beijing forced a reversal, is now returning to independent operations seven months after the deal was unwound. The company has anno...
Anthropic projects revenue between $190-200 billion by 2028, according to the company's latest inter...
Anthropic projects revenue between $190-200 billion by 2028, according to the company's latest internal forecasts. The figure, driven by strong enterprise adoption and strategic partnerships, aligns w...
Anthropic's second-quarter revenue surged past $11.5 billion, up more than 14-fold from $787 million...
Anthropic's second-quarter revenue surged past $11.5 billion, up more than 14-fold from $787 million in the same period last year and 143% quarter-over-quarter from $4.73 billion in Q1, according to B...
An AWS-certified partner has posted a job listing seeking an engineer to develop business support sy...
An AWS-certified partner has posted a job listing seeking an engineer to develop business support systems that integrate artificial intelligence. The role, advertised on a Nikkei career platform, focu...
Four leading Google DeepMind researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le —...
Four leading Google DeepMind researchers — Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le — have left the company to co-found Discovery Loop, a new AI startup focused on automating scientific...
Hugging Face hack marks start of agentic AI cyber era, execs warn firms 'don't even know it'
Hugging Face hack marks start of agentic AI cyber era, execs warn firms 'don't even know it' Cybersecurity executives at Black Hat 2026 are reframing last month's Hugging Face breach as a watershed mo...
Anthropic has officially filed for a confidential IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi...
Anthropic has officially filed for a confidential IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 1, 2026, according to TradingKey. The filing marks a significant milestone for the...
StepFun separates its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a...
StepFun separates its foundation model and agent-device businesses, moving its phone business into a separate company while the original entity continues operating the model business. The company is a...
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down as Alphabet reshuffles its AI leadership
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis steps down as Alphabet reshuffles its AI leadership Demis Hassabis is stepping down as CEO of Google DeepMind, though he remains chair of the unit and takes on the r...
Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Revenue Growth and Valuation
Anthropic Surpasses OpenAI in Revenue Growth and Valuation According to sources, OpenAI lost ground to Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after a period of focusing on consumer chatbots, highli...
Cursor faces customer pushback on price hikes amid rapid growth
Cursor faces customer pushback on price hikes amid rapid growth Cursor, the AI coding app, is encountering resistance from customers as it attempts to raise prices during contract negotiations. The co...