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Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Google rolls out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new model that improves coding and agentic performance while offering a lower introductory price.
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Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs
Writer launches Palmyra X6, a cost‑efficient model built on GLM‑5.2, and upgrades its harness to cut token usage by up to 50%, aiming to reduce AI deployment costs for marketers.
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B3IQ Finds a New AI Niche: Supplying Rent‑to‑Own Machines to Privacy‑Conscious Academics
AI startup B3IQ raised $21 million to provide on‑premise, rent‑to‑own AI compute machines for university researchers, addressing privacy and cost challenges in academic research.
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Landor Rebrands Scana Energy As Source Of Comfort
The Georgia natural gas provider Scana Energy is being rebranded by Landor to emphasize customer experience and emotional resonance in a price‑driven market.
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IBM and Together AI Sign Multi‑Year Agreement to Scale Open‑Source AI Inference with NVIDIA AI Infrastructure on IBM Cloud
IBM partners with Together AI to deploy a large‑scale inference cluster on IBM Cloud using NVIDIA HGX B300 systems, aiming to accelerate open‑source AI workloads for enterprises.
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SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3’s performance
SpaceXAI released its latest frontier AI model, Grok 4.6, which surpasses competitor models in benchmarks and offers a lower‑cost API for enterprise use.
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xAI co‑founder raises $1.1B for River AI to build an open AI stack
River AI, a new startup spun out of xAI, secured $1.1 billion in a Series A to offer an open‑weight AI platform that lets enterprises train, own and run custom models.
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Microsoft to unveil Maia 300 AI chip this fall, targets 300,000 units
Microsoft plans to release its next‑generation Maia 300 AI chip in September, aiming to produce up to 300,000 units this fall as part of its custom silicon strategy for Azure AI workloads.
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As AI‑led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
OpenAI expands its Daybreak cyber‑defense service with a new GPT‑5.6‑Cyber model, offering advanced threat‑analysis tools for enterprise defenders.
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Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
Firebird opens a new AI factory in Armenia powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing, expanding AI infrastructure in frontier markets.
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Is the Future of Data Centers Portable? Runware Builds a Pod to Find Out
Runware announced its Sonic Inference Pod, a modular, transportable data‑center unit aimed at delivering cost‑effective AI inference closer to end users.
Yellow Card raises $40 million to link banks to stablecoin processing
The fintech firm secured $40 million in strategic equity funding to expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure, targeting emerging markets.
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China is gaining ground in AI. The U.S. still has a major advantage
Hugging Face CEO says China is winning the AI race, but U.S. firms still hold a compute edge, sparking debate over global AI leadership.
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Microsoft Wins, Meta Faces Questions, Qualcomm Sees Supply Chain Challenges
Bloomberg Tech video discusses Microsoft’s cloud growth, Meta’s earnings slump, Qualcomm’s component shortages, and Apple’s final CEO earnings report.
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Europe's established tech firms emerge as unexpected AI winners
A Reuters analysis finds that European incumbents such as SAP, Capgemini, and OVHcloud are gaining traction in AI deployment, outperforming newer startups in enterprise adoption.
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare’s new cloud‑hosted browser is designed specifically for AI agents, prioritizing context management and token cost over visual UI features.
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Private Capital Rushes to Fund AI Buildout in Emerging Markets
Investors are pouring record sums into AI projects across Latin America and Africa, driving a surge in data‑center and digital infrastructure deals.
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USDY Is Now Live on BNB Chain
Ondo Finance’s U.S. Dollar Yield Token (USDY) expands to BNB Chain, offering instant mint/redeem and cross‑chain bridging for yield‑bearing dollar exposure.
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Tesla is suing this Canadian province for cutting it out of its EV incentives
Tesla has filed a lawsuit against Manitoba after the province removed the automaker from its electric‑vehicle rebate program.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems raised $37 million in a Series B round to use AI‑driven weather balloons for more accurate, cost‑effective forecasts.
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AI data‑centre race builds $1 trillion lease burden for Big Tech
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI‑powered data centres, a move that could reshape the industry’s capital structure.
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Nvidia's Vera CPU and the Olympus cores that power it: Deep dive
Nvidia unveiled its Vera CPU, a standalone AI‑centric processor featuring 88 custom ARMv9.2 cores and 1.5 TB of memory, targeting hyperscalers and cloud providers.
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A Marc Benioff‑backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem
The new company June raises $20 million to help enterprises deploy AI by automating complex workflows and reducing reliance on forward‑deployed engineers.
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Alibaba Unveils Qwen3.8-Max AI Model With 2.4 Trillion Parameters to Challenge Global Leaders
Alibaba Group released its largest AI model, Qwen3.8‑Max, featuring 2.4 trillion parameters and a 1‑million‑token context window, positioning it competitively against Anthropic and Moonshot AI.