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General news and updates from the AI startup ecosystem. Coverage of artificial intelligence industry developments.
Cerence projects $305M-$320M fiscal 2026 revenue as BYD begins xUI production
Cerence, a publicly traded provider of conversational AI for automobiles, announced fiscal 2026 revenue guidance of $305 million to $320 million as Chinese automaker BYD begins production of vehicles...
SK Telecom AI data center revenue jumps 89%, signaling telco-led infrastructure push
South Korea's SK Telecom reported an 89% year-over-year increase in AI data center revenue, underscoring the telecom giant's deepening pivot toward AI infrastructure. The company has been expanding it...
Intapp, a governed AI platform for professional firms, reported its third quarter fiscal year 2026 f...
Intapp, a governed AI platform for professional firms, reported its third quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results, highlighting continued enterprise AI adoption in regulated verticals such as law,...
Palantir reports strong AI-driven revenue growth, with pricing power reflected in its latest financi...
Palantir reports strong AI-driven revenue growth, with pricing power reflected in its latest financial results. The company's AI platforms continue to command premium pricing amid growing enterprise d...
Artisan accused of stealing artist's work for ad
AI startup Artisan is under fire after reportedly using a subway ad featuring KC Green's iconic 'This is fine' comic without permission. The ad depicts the dog saying "[M]y pipeline is on fire" and pr...
Suno reaches $2.5B valuation with 2M+ paying users.
Suno, the AI music generation startup launched in December 2023, has reached a $2.5 billion valuation and now claims over 2 million paying subscribers. The surge in AI-generated music has flooded stre...
Microsoft reported Q3 FY2026 earnings with total revenue of $82.9 billion (up 18% YoY), operating in...
Microsoft reported Q3 FY2026 earnings with total revenue of $82.9 billion (up 18% YoY), operating income of $38.4 billion, and net income of $31.8 billion. Azure and other cloud services revenue grew...
xAI used OpenAI's models to train Grok, Musk admits in court
In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his AI startup xAI has used OpenAI's models to improve its own Grok. Asked directly if xAI had distilled OpenAI's technology,...
Aqua Voice, a Y Combinator W24 voice AI startup, reports over 50% of its user base is in Japan follo...
Aqua Voice, a Y Combinator W24 voice AI startup, reports over 50% of its user base is in Japan following organic influencer-driven adoption among programmers and those dissatisfied with Japanese keybo...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang warns optimized DeepSeek models on Huawei Ascend chips pose strategic threat to US AI leadership.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated on the Dwarkesh Podcast that if Chinese AI lab DeepSeek optimizes its upcoming V4 foundation model for Huawei Technologies' Ascend 950PR processors, it would represent '...
**Qunhe Technology surges 171% on HK IPO, becoming first 'spatial intelligence' listed company**
Qunhe Technology (00068.HK), the spatial intelligence company behind design platform Kujiale, debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at HK$20.70 per share, closing 171.65% above its IPO price. The co...
Qunhe Technology (群核科技), the operator of cloud-based spatial design platform Kujiale (酷家乐), went pub...
Qunhe Technology (群核科技), the operator of cloud-based spatial design platform Kujiale (酷家乐), went public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on April 17, raising HK$1.224 billion ($156M) after pricing at t...
Agibot (智元) Unveils Full-Stack Ecosystem Strategy at APC 2026
At the 2026 Agibot Partner Conference (APC 2026) in Shanghai, founder and CEO Deng Taihua unveiled a comprehensive strategic framework for embodied intelligence, including the "XYZ curve" industry dev...
Elon Musk's Lawsuit Against OpenAI Heads to Trial in Oakland, California, Over Mission and Trust Breach Allegations.
The trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft is set to begin in an Oakland federal courtroom. The core claims allege OpenAI breached its founding nonprofi...
Modeling LLM Unlearning as an Asymmetric Two-Task Learning Problem
This work models LLM unlearning as an asymmetric two-task learning problem, exploring methods to remove specific information from models. Original source: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.14808v1
From Reactive to Proactive: Assessing the Proactivity of Voice Agents via ProVoice-Bench
The ProVoice-Bench benchmark is introduced to assess the proactivity of voice agents, moving beyond reactive paradigms towards multimodal interaction. Original source: https://arxiv.org/html/2604.1503...
MiniMax M2.7 TQ3 - A TurboQuant 3-bit quantized version of MiniMax-M2.7 for single DGX Spark
A 3-bit quantized version of the MiniMax-M2.7 LLM, named MiniMax M2.7 TQ3, is now available on Hugging Face for single DGX Spark. Original source: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/minimax-m2-7-tq...
Deploy and use Claude models in Microsoft Foundry (preview)
This guide details how to deploy and utilize Anthropic's Claude models, including Claude Opus and Sonnet, within Microsoft Foundry. Original source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/fou...
UK AI Minister Hits Out at OpenAI for Stargate Project Pause
The UK's AI minister criticized OpenAI for pausing its Stargate project in the UK, citing energy costs and regulation as reasons for the halt. Original source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...
Gartner predicts 90%+ LLM inference cost drop by 2030, reshaping AI economics
On March 25, 2026, Gartner published a forecast that inference costs for a 1-trillion-parameter LLM will decline by over 90% by 2030 compared to 2025 levels, driven by hardware advances (NVIDIA Blackw...