OpenAI’s CFO Launches a Brutal Reality Check on AI Spending
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar launched a four-metric AI scorecard to help enterprises prove AI returns and defend spending to company boards.
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DeepSeek Soars to $52 Billion Valuation in Explosive $7.4B Funding Round
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.
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Meta Is Hiring From Amazon’s Cloud Division to Lead Its Compute Push — From the Rival It May Soon Challenge
Meta is recruiting a top Amazon cloud executive as its AI infrastructure investment surpasses $50 billion, with a 5GW Louisiana data center now in play.
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1Password For Claude Launches: Your AI Logs In Without Ever Seeing The Password
1Password and Anthropic Bring a browser integration to Claude, keeping passwords hidden for 150,000 business customers from launch.
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NVIDIA Nemotron Dominates AI Benchmark, Crushing All Competition
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Embed ranks first overall on RTEB, boosting the retrieval accuracy that agentic AI systems need for real-world tasks.
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Kimi K3 Packs 2.8 Trillion Parameters, Challenging Closed US AI Models
Chinese startup Moonshot AI launched Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says is the world’s largest, rivaling Anthropic’s frontier systems.
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Databricks Soars to a Stunning $188 Billion Valuation
Databricks is raising a new strategic round at a $188 billion valuation, led by Coatue Management. Here is what the deal means for enterprise AI infrastructure.
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Alphabet Stock Plunges on Gemini 3.5 Pro Delay — Google’s AI Race Just Turned Cold
Pro Delay pushes Gemini 3.5 Pro back several months over coding issues, pressuring Alphabet shares as AI rivals advance their frontier models.
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Fireworks AI Soars to Explosive $17.5 Billion Valuation
Fireworks AI closed a $1.5 billion funding round at a $17.5 billion valuation, cementing its place among the most valuable AI infrastructure companies in the.
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Claude AI Outage Triggers Widespread Errors, and Anthropic Is Investigating
Claude AI outages drew over 2,000 reports by July 14 as Anthropic investigated, exposing risks for users reliant on AI services worldwide.
