AI

AI Smartphone: China’s ZTE and 13 other brands are building AI-native smartphones, threatening Qualcomm’s dominance and reshaping a $500 billion global hardware

pretraining poisoning: New arXiv research shows pretraining data poisoning embeds harmful behaviors in AI models before safety training even begins, defeating a

AI chip startup Etched is simultaneously raising at $10B and $20B valuations, with Sequoia leading the lower tranche, as demand for custom AI silicon.

A fully AI-generated The Odyssey adaptation made for five figures has arrived before Christopher Nolan’s $250M blockbuster, marking a concrete shift in film product

Cloud Push: Meta is recruiting a top AWS executive and negotiating a $10B cloud deal with Anthropic, signaling a bold push into AI compute that rivals hyperscal

Apple overtook Nvidia on July 17 to reclaim the title of world’s most valuable company, marking a dramatic rotation away from AI infrastructure stocks.

Berlin’s Prior Labs was acquired by SAP for €1 billion just 18 months after founding, marking one of the fastest and largest AI lab exits in European startup.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar’s new AI scorecard replaces vague productivity claims with 4 hard metrics: useful work, cost per task, dependability, and re

DeepSeek raised $7.4 billion in its first-ever external funding round, valuing the Chinese AI lab at $52 billion. Tencent and CATL led the deal.