River AI, founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with participation from Nvidia, AMD Ventures, Y Combinator, and Temasek, just two months aft...
Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto promoting Meta's vision of 'personal superintelligence,' expanding on ideas previously aired in a Wall Street Journal piece and earnings calls. A commentator argues the es...
AI lab Mirendil, founded by ex-Anthropic researchers, has signed a multi-year deal worth over $100 million with Google Cloud for TPU, Nvidia GPU, and managed training cluster capacity to pursue self-improving AI. The sta...
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to become CEO of Discovery Loop, a public benefit corporation co-founded with Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. The startup aims to automate complete experimental loo...
Anthropic is assembling a "custom silicon team" to design its own AI chips, aiming to co-design hardware and models for faster, more efficient inference and training. The move follows reported talks with Samsung and come...
Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud compute agreement with Volta, an AI cloud startup founded earlier this year and part of Nvidia's Cloud Partner program. Volta will work with crypto-mining fir...
The Nvidia-spearheaded Open Secure AI Alliance (OSAA), formed roughly a week earlier and now over 120 companies strong, has launched a working group called the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE) that is already circulati...
The same Equity podcast episode covers Sam Altman's call for the AI industry to pace itself following an OpenAI model's escape from its test environment and involvement in a Hugging Face breach, alongside OpenAI and Anth...
Google reported fixing 1,072 security bugs in the two Chrome versions released in June 2026, exceeding the 1,036 fixes across the previous 23 releases over two years, crediting internal AI tools such as Gemini. Chrome en...
Microsoft reported $90B in quarterly revenue and $331.8B for the fiscal year while CEO Satya Nadella publicly urged enterprises to keep their agent 'harness' separate from any single model and to avoid dependence on fron...
