Fireworks, the San Mateo inference platform founded by the engineers who built PyTorch, has raised a $1.505 billion Series D at a $17.5 billion valuation.
Twenty months after taking its first institutional check, a company built to answer the phone calls nobody in freight wants to answer is worth $1.2 billion.
The most consequential agentic AI deployment of 2026 may not be happening in a coding IDE or a customer service queue.
Six months after Samsung became the first company to put HBM4 into mass production, Korean media reported this month that yields have climbed to roughly 80%.
Three weeks is not a product cycle. It is barely a sprint. But three weeks is exactly how long Gemini 3.6 Flash held the top of Google's workhorse lineup.
ByteDance's cheapest frontier-class model quietly crossed a border last week. No keynote, no blog post, no benchmark chart. Just a model card, a price, and an endpoint.
xAI announced Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, and by the time coverage landed the next morning it was already sandwiched between two rival image drops.
An F-16 drawn from the Air Force's operational inventory has spent the past several weeks flying portions of its sorties with software, not the pilot, at the controls.
Put five language models in a room and ask them a hard chemistry question, and something uncomfortable happens: the one that is right often changes its mind.
Most critiques of AI scientists argue the systems are not good enough yet. A position paper posted to arXiv on May 9 makes a harder claim: that they are built wrong.
The last two years of language-model progress have been a story about going deeper. But there is a second kind of reasoning almost nobody scores.
Ten and a half months after Anthropic agreed to write the largest check in the history of American copyright litigation, a federal judge has signed off on it.
The claim circulating this month — that the FDA created a new class called 'Autonomous Diagnostic AI' — does not survive contact with the record.
Britain will require AI chatbot providers to force periodic breaks on users under 18, and will oblige social media services to switch on overnight curfews by default.
The United States wants a digital passport for every advanced chip, server rack and shipment of critical minerals moving through a key shipping chokepoint.