The largest compute contract in AI history just locked in a decade's worth of West Virginia power—before the IPO roadshow even starts. Anthropic signed a $45 billion deal with Nscale to rent AI computing power from a West Virginia data center, the biggest compute procurement contract on record
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Revenue growth without the crown jewel model — turns out you can win the AI race by running a different race entirely. MiniMax Group's revenue jumped 283% in H1 2026, even while competitors like Z.AI released more advanced LLMs
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Google just made enterprise AI cheap enough that the next wave won't come from the Bay Area labs—it'll come from legal departments and credit desks. Google launched Gemini Enterprise, a suite of cost-management tools designed to make AI accessible to businesses without Silicon Valley budgets
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Australia just showed how to make AI companies pay for the content they scrape—while the publishers counting on those checks are firing the people who create it.
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The companies building AI can't explain what their models are doing — and just proved it by accidentally letting one hack another company. Goodfire launched Silico, a public platform with tools to interpret AI model behavior, plus $1M in grants for academic researchers
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OpenAI's CFO just drew a map from silicon to superintelligence, and the route runs through economics, not just engineering.
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The company training the models just beat the company selling the shovels at its own game. OpenAI's Jalapeño chip outperformed Nvidia's Blackwell on inference benchmarks, leading in tokens per user and throughput per kilowatt on SemiAnalysis's InferenceX tests
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The open-source AI darling that nearly died last year just raised another $76 million — but the real story is who's NOT on the cap table. Stability AI closed a $76 million round, bringing total funding to $232 million since its 2020 founding
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Your AI assistant just learned to remember who you are across every conversation and project, which means it's finally starting to act less like a tool and more like a coworker.
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The red team business just became a growth industry — because the models being released are now powerful enough to need one. AI safety startup Alice raised $140 million to stress-test frontier models and help companies identify vulnerabilities before deployment
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The company behind Claude is pitching a valuation bigger than the entire global oil industry while burning cash and losing ground to OpenAI.
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A token doubling on launch day used to mean hype. Now it might mean the AI inference market just got its first real price signal. DGrid AI's DGAI token surged 93% in its first day of trading as the decentralized AI inference network went live
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The man who told us to brace for economic transformation now says we've got more time than he thought — which might be the most honest thing an AI CEO has said all year.
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The legal AI race just got a heavyweight contender, and Google's bringing something the others don't have: the infrastructure every law firm already runs on.
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The trillion-dollar cloud AI buildout just got its first serious local challenger, and it's running on hardware Nvidia sold you last year.
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Apple just put serious AI compute in machines you can actually buy, not cloud servers you rent by the millisecond. Apple launched M6 in the Mac mini and M5 Ultra in Mac Studio, marking its first 2-nanometer chip and a quad-die architecture in consumer hardware
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While everyone's building agents, Keenable is building the infrastructure agents will depend on to actually work. Keenable exits stealth with $26M seed from Accel to build a web search index specifically designed for AI agents, not humans
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The companies building the most powerful AI models just admitted they can't secure them alone. Alice, an Israeli AI safety startup working with Google and Anthropic, raised $140 million following recent high-profile AI system hacks
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The banks are so desperate to underwrite the AI boom that they're willing to lend billions to Anthropic just for the privilege of managing what might be the biggest IPO in history. Anthropic is planning an IPO that could raise more than $75B, potentially making it the largest public offering ever
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Meta is about to ask you to pay Netflix money for something Facebook has been free for two decades. Meta plans to launch Hatch, a consumer AI agent platform, in early September, with internal documents pointing to a $199.99 monthly premium tier
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