Etched in Talks to Raise Funds at $20 Billion Valuation, With a Separate $10 Billion Round Led by Sequoia
Etched, the startup building chips dedicated to running AI inference rather than training, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly…
Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K3, Raising the Bar for Open AI Models
Moonshot AI has introduced Kimi K3, its latest flagship large language model, featuring a 2.8-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. The company says the model delivers performance…
Nvidia’s Open-Source Bet Is Really a Wager on Where AI Margin Settles
The instinct when a frontier AI model gets cheaper is to assume value is being destroyed. It isn’t. Margin in a supply chain behaves less…
TerraFirma Raises $100M Series A to Turn Heavy Construction Equipment Into Robots
TerraFirma, a tech-enabled construction company building semi-autonomous heavy machinery, has raised approximately $115 million, anchored by a $100 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins.…
PrismML, the Startup That Shrinks AI Models to Run on an iPhone, Is in Talks With Apple
A small Caltech spinout called PrismML has done something that looked implausible a year ago: it compressed a 27-billion-parameter large language model down small enough…
OpenAI’s First Device Will Be a Moveable, Screenless AI Companion Speaker
OpenAI’s long-anticipated move into hardware is finally taking shape, and it isn’t the iPhone rival many expected. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, citing people familiar…
IBM’s 25% Stock Fall Is Beginning of the End for Old School Software Giant
IBM just had its worst trading day in at least 58 years. Shares closed down more than 25% on July 14, 2026, wiping out over…
Why a Six-Axis Robot Arm Is Staring at a Green-Headed Tanager
An ABB IRB 1100 six-axis arm sits bolted to a demo table, a HikRobot area-scan camera clamped where a gripper would normally go, its ring…
Industrial Robotics Meets the AI Boom: What Cobots at Trade Shows Are Really Selling
Walk any major tech expo floor this year and the pattern repeats itself: a crowd gathers not around a laptop demo, but around a robot…
Microsoft Trims 5,500 Jobs to Defend a $190 Billion Capital Program
Microsoft will cut fewer than 5,500 jobs next week — under 2.5 percent of a 220,000-person workforce — across sales, consulting, and its Xbox division,…
South Korea Commits $590 Billion to Double Its Memory Chip Capacity
South Korea unveiled a 911 trillion won (~$590 billion) semiconductor investment plan on Monday, anchored by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, with the stated aim…
HyperLight Closes $80M to Move TFLN From Lab to Foundry
HyperLight has closed an $80 million Series C led by MediaTek, with participation from UMC Capital, Jabil, Foxconn, EDBI, CDIB-TEN Capital, and the Qatar Investment…
Odyssey Raises $310M to Build World Models on AWS Trainium
Odyssey, the Palo Alto world-model lab founded by self-driving veterans Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, has raised a $310 million Series B at a $1.45…
Apple After WWDC 2026: 35% of iPhone Volume Can’t Run Siri AI Yet
Apple unveiled the biggest AI overhaul in its history on June 8, hit an all-time high while the keynote was still running, and then sold…
The Semiconductor Rotation Myth: There Is No Rotation Out of Semi Stocks, Only Profit-Taking
Every violent down day in semiconductors produces the same headline within hours: “investors rotate out of chips.” It happened again after June 5, when the…
The AI Selloff Repriced Valuation, Not Demand
The tape over the past week looked like a thesis breaking. The Nasdaq fell more than 4 percent on June 4, its worst session since…
Apple’s Next-Generation Apple Intelligence Is Built on Google’s Gemini Models
Apple announced the next generation of Apple Intelligence this week, and the most consequential detail was not the features. It was a single clause near…
Itera Emerges From Stealth With Fluid Circuit Board That Rewires in Under a Minute
A deep tech startup called Itera has come out of stealth with a prototype of what it describes as the world’s first fluid circuit board…
Quantum Computing Stocks Are Down. They Are Not at the Bottom.
Two consecutive sessions of selling have trimmed the quantum computing cohort, and the retail crowd is already calling a bottom. That reading is wrong. IONQ,…
The Humanoid Trap: Form Factor as Distraction in Industrial Robotics
The robotics industry has a consensus problem. Across investment portfolios, research agendas, and policy conversations, humanoid robots have become the default horizon — the assumed…
Hark Raises $700M Series A at $6B: The Vertical Integration Bet on Personal AI
Brett Adcock has done this before. He co-founded Vettery, sold it to Adecco. He founded Archer Aviation and took it public. He founded Figure AI…
Apple Brings Apple Intelligence to Accessibility, Adds Wheelchair Eye Control for Vision Pro
Apple’s annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day announcement this year is defined less by isolated feature additions than by a systematic integration of Apple Intelligence into…
RADAR Raises $170M to Bring Real-Time Inventory Intelligence to Physical Retail
Physical retail has always had a data problem. E-commerce operators know exactly where every item is, how long it sat, and when it moved. Brick-and-mortar…
Anthropic’s Stainless Acquisition Is an Infrastructure Seizure Disguised as a Developer Tools Deal
On May 18, Anthropic acquired Stainless, the New York-based startup that automatically generates and maintains software development kits for API specifications. The reported price is…