Moonshot's Kimi K2 uses a 1T-parameter MoE architecture with 32B active parameters and outperforms models like GPT-4.1 and DeepSeek-V3 on key benchmarks
Moonshot AI, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup behind the popular Kimi chatbot, released an open-source language model on Friday …
There's little evidence that UAE-based Aqua 1 Foundation, the largest investor in Trump's World Liberty Financial after buying tokens worth $100M, exists at all
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xAI apologizes for Grok's “horrific behavior” when it wrote antisemitic posts on July 8, and blames “an update to a code path upstream of the Grok bot”
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was “horrific behavior.”
With Tim Cook likely to lead Apple through this decade, a look at Apple's executive succession challenges as many of Cook's direct reports near retirement age
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Sources: SpaceX has agreed to invest $2B in xAI, as part of xAI's $5B equity fundraise announced by Morgan Stanley last month
The startup is leaning on Musk's business empire to play catch-up in the AI race — Elon Musk's SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI …
Tesla rolls out Grok to some vehicles with an AMD infotainment chip; Grok comes pre-installed on new vehicles and cannot issue commands to the vehicle itself
All new Tesla vehicles delivered on or after July 12, 2025, will include Grok AI out of the box
Insiders describe Linda Yaccarino's tumultuous partnership with Elon Musk and say the two failed to gel as Musk's blunt style clashed with Yaccarino's polish
Inside the former social media CEO's tumultuous partnership with the world's richest man — Hannah Murphy in San Francisco …
Stanford study: LLMs struggle to respond appropriately to questions about delusions, suicide, and OCD, but AI could play valuable supportive roles to therapists
When Stanford University researchers asked ChatGPT whether it would be willing to work closely with someone who had schizophrenia …
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers
Two Trump visits span city's legacy industry, higher-tech pursuits — PITTSBURGH—Two months ago, President Trump stood in a cavernous …
Pump.fun raised $500M via a sale of PUMP tokens, which sold out in 12 minutes; it offered 12.5% of its total token supply at a fully diluted valuation of $4B
But Something Doesn't Add Up Monika Ghosh / CryptoSlate : Memecoin platform PumpFun concludes one of the fastest ICOs, raising $600M in 12 minutes Anthony Patrick / crypto.news : DIY memecoin platform...
Belkin's move to brick Wemo devices highlights how little accountability IoT companies face when abandoning connected products customers paid for
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... Glyn Moody / @glynmoody : Belkin shows tech firms getting too comfortable with bricking customers' stuff - arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025... another reminder that you don...
A look at Xiaomi AI Glasses, launched in China on June 26 with a starting price of ~$278, featuring a 12MP ultra-wide camera and powered by Qualcomm's AR1 chip
The Xiaomi AI glasses are handy for hands-free photography and videography, which is ideal for situations like cycling
NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund
Vocify Inc., also known as Vellum, a leading enterprise development platform for building, testing and deploying artificial …
Berlin-based CarOnSale, a B2B marketplace for used car trading across Europe offering vehicle inspections and more, raised a €70M Series C led by Northzone
German CarOnSale, a digital B2B marketplace for used car trading, has successfully closed a €70 million Series C round …
Parspec, whose AI-powered workflow tool automates procurement processes in the construction supply chain, raised a $20M Series A led by Threshold Ventures
Parspec, a startup using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency in the construction industry supply chain …
OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft
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Samsung agrees to acquire Seattle-based Xealth, which helps healthcare providers manage digital health tools and has raised over $50M, for an undisclosed sum
Samsung Electronics has acquired Samsung Next's portfolio company Xealth!! …
Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90%+ of submitted notes are never published, with many notes “stuck in limbo”
Honor Education, an e-learning service for individuals and enterprises founded by former Dean of Apple University Joel Podolny, raised a $38M Series A
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Portola, which develops the Tolan app featuring AI companions, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures; the app has 3M+ downloads and 100K+ paid users
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A look at US-backed NVD, as its parent org NIST scrambles to hire contractors to help clear a backlog of 25K+ vulnerabilities, ~10x the previous high in 2017
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Studios like Do Big are buying Roblox games for $1M+ in a thriving secondary market; Naavik: seven of the 15 highest-earning games in June have been acquired
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A look at Meta's revamped GenAI strategy, as Mark Zuckerberg poaches top AI talent for the Superintelligence team with a typical offer of $200M over four years
SemiAnalysis : X: @staysaasy , @lefttailguy , @blader , and @mjolley22 X: @staysaasy : @blader To put it in another context: If these guys were Sole Proprietorships or single person LLCs, they'd be p...
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