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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
Sundar Pichai, Google's CEO, faced disruption at Stanford University's graduation ceremony after students and attendees protested the company's involv…
SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
SpaceX has gone public, marking a watershed moment for the commercial space industry. The company's IPO concludes nearly two decades of private fundin…
Key mission for Europe's commercial space enterprise scrubbed again
Isar Aerospace has postponed another critical mission after accumulating limited launch experience. The German space startup, despite strong financial…
Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021
Nvidia plans its largest bond offering since 2021, seeking to raise more than $25 billion through debt markets. The move tests whether investors remai…
Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
Microsoft's Xbox division is shutting down Ninja Theory, the UK-based studio known for the Hellblade franchise. The decision came during a staff call …
Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale
Nvidia is raising at least $20 billion through its first bond sale since 2021, according to Bloomberg sources familiar with the deal. The move positio…
Anthropic shutdown sparks sovereignty debate across Europe
A U.S. government order forced Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models globally, triggering an urgent debate in Europe over technologic…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns of "a small number of AI systems capturing all the economic returns"
Satya Nadella is warning that the AI industry risks concentrating economic value in a handful of large foundation models, creating a winner-take-most …
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Sarvam AI, a Bengaluru-based artificial intelligence startup, has raised $234 million in a Series B funding round led by HCLTech, the Indian IT servic…
As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
AI startups are capitalizing on investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence by planning public offerings, following the momentum of high-profile t…
Over half of Americans fear losing both their jobs and their independent thinking to AI, survey finds
Anthropic surveyed nearly 52,000 Americans about AI adoption and found stark divides between heavy users and the general public. Sixty-four percent of…
As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future
Anthropic has suspended access to its latest AI models in India, triggering a broader debate about the country's artificial intelligence strategy and …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits he's a token-maxer, too: "It's addictive"
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's CEO, is warning the industry against overusing expensive frontier AI models for routine tasks. He calls this practice "toke…
Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation
Mistral AI is closing in on a €3 billion funding round that would value the French AI startup at €20 billion, roughly double its Series C valuation of…
Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday
Rocket Lab's Nova heavy-lift vehicle is progressing through its test campaign, marking a critical milestone for the company's expansion beyond its Ele…
Microsoft hasn’t ruled out spinning off Xbox
Microsoft is weighing a spinoff of its Xbox division as the company restructures its gaming strategy. The software giant plans to lay off a substantia…
AI Weekly Issue #489: PE built AI's new distribution layer
Private equity firms have become the primary distribution channel for frontier AI models. OpenAI secured $10 billion from a 19-firm Wall Street consor…
Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living
Andrew Yang has identified a market gap in the American economy. He believes startups should target the products and services where consumers pay the …
SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know
SpaceX appears poised for a public offering, marking a major milestone for Elon Musk's rocket company after two decades of private operations. TechCru…
Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do
Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus entered the physical AI space with significant funding backing, joining a crowded field of companies building robot…
Google files first joint lawsuit with FBI over Chinese AI scam network, OpenAI blocks PRC influence clusters
Google and OpenAI have independently disclosed coordinated Chinese operations exploiting AI for fraud and influence operations targeting the United St…
Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push
Mistral AI is negotiating a 3 billion euro funding round at a roughly 20 billion euro valuation, according to reports. The French AI startup intends t…
OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks
OpenAI has acquired Ona, the German startup previously known as Gitpod, to expand Codex's capabilities into long-running, autonomous coding tasks. Ona…
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer
Three AI and space companies are preparing simultaneous public market debuts, signaling a dramatic shift in which technology firms dominate investor a…
It’s hot IPO summer, and the MANGOS are ripe
The IPO market is heating up around a new set of mega-cap players reshaping tech leadership. The acronym MANGOS is replacing FAANG as shorthand for th…
Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything
Theker closed an $85 million funding round to scale production of reconfigurable factory robots that abandon the humanoid form factor entirely. The st…
Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world
Jeff Bezos-backed Prometheus has raised $12 billion in a new funding round, valuing the physical AI startup at $41 billion. The company focuses on dev…
Jeff Bezos' AI startup Prometheus closes $12 billion round at a $41 billion valuation
Prometheus, Jeff Bezos' AI startup, has raised $12 billion in its latest funding round, valuing the company at $41 billion. The company launched in No…
OpenAI vs. Anthropic: A price war over API tokens is brewing
OpenAI is considering cutting API token prices to compete with Anthropic, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. This move signals inten…
This Week in AI: Production Viability
OpenAI is moving into personal finance with new tools designed for individual money management, marking the company's expansion beyond enterprise soft…
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei operates with an unusually flat organizational structure, maintaining just one direct report. This management approach stan…
"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
Microsoft's gaming leadership delivered a stark internal assessment of Xbox's deteriorating market position, acknowledging the division faces fundamen…
OpenAI's IPO slips as Altman tells staff to expect a public offering "within the next year"
Sam Altman told OpenAI staff to expect a public offering within the next year, though he acknowledged a potential delay into 2027. The timeline repres…