News
AI, at newsroom pace.
FUNDING
Augustus closes $180M Series B at $1B valuation; OCC charter enables AI-native clearing bank
FUNDING
Meshy AI closes $400M Series B at $1.5B valuation; ARR up 12x YoY with 12M users
MARKET
Alphabet pushes capex to $205B; bond market signals AI spending limits
FUNDING
Moonshot AI targets $50B valuation in pre-IPO round, eyes Hong Kong listing by year-end 2026
MARKET
Alphabet raises capex guidance to $190–205B for 2026; posts first-ever negative quarterly FCF
INDUSTRY
Telco Multi-Agent AI Cuts 5G Security Response Time 40 Percent
POLICY
NVIDIA + 24 companies sign open-weights letter opposing AI model restrictions as Jensen Huang joins X
POLICY
Trump launches Section 301 probe into EU tech fines, threatens 'substantial' tariffs on bloc
COMPUTE
Vera Rubin Cuts Inference Token Cost to One-Tenth of Blackwell
POLICY
OpenAI, Anthropic absent from open-weights coalition as Huang debuts on X
RESEARCH
Kimi K3 achieves 68.5% on DeepSWE, costs 2.8x less per task than Claude Fable 5
INDUSTRY
Kimi K3 Delivers 2.8× More Solved Tasks per Dollar Than Fable 5
MARKET
Google Cloud backlog hits $514B, up $54B in one quarter; operating income tripled to $8.8B
FUNDING
Atoms raises $1.7B Series from Andreessen Horowitz for physical AI robotics
CHIPS
Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028, posts 25% revenue growth on strong data center demand
FUNDING
SoftBank weighs deal for Gravis Robotics at $500M valuation, doubling down on construction autonomy
MARKET
Moody's warns AI capex boom eroding credit quality at hyperscalers, projects $1T spending by 2027
BREAKING
Anthropic upgrades Claude Voice to Opus/Sonnet models; turn-based architecture competes with OpenAI's full-duplex GPT-Live on tool access, not speech naturalness