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OpenAI models hit Amazon Bedrock in limited preview, just one day after ending Microsoft exclusivity. AWS customers can now access frontier AI alongside Anthropic and Meta—while…
Late-stage venture debt hit a decade high in Q1 2026 with $10.8M median deals. AI companies burning cash fast are turning to lenders instead of investors…
VCs funneled $18.8 billion into AI startups founded since 2025, as top researchers exit Meta, Google, and OpenAI. Ineffable Intelligence, AMI Labs, and Ricursive Intelligence lead…
Former DeepMind researcher David Silver raised $1.1B for Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1B valuation. His bet: reinforcement learning beats the LLM data treadmill — and he'll…
OpenAI missed 1B weekly user and revenue goals. CFO Friar warned the company can't afford its compute contracts without faster growth. SoftBank fell 11.3%.
Google commits up to $40B in Anthropic at $350B valuation—$10B now, $30B on milestones. The deal locks 5 GW of TPU compute, tying cloud revenue to…
OpenAI can now deploy on any cloud after renegotiating its Microsoft deal. The AGI clause is dead, revenue share is capped, and $250B in Azure spending…
DeepSeek V4 Pro shipped 12 hours after GPT-5.5 at 2% of the price, on Huawei silicon, with a 1.5-billion-token "distillation corpus" Washington calls industrial-scale theft. The…
Meta struck a deal with AWS to deploy hundreds of thousands of Graviton chips for agentic AI workloads. The agreement gives Meta access to Amazon's custom-designed…
Tens of thousands of Samsung Electronics workers rallied in South Korea demanding a larger share of AI profits. Union members cite competitor SK hynix offering employees…
