#AI-Economy
Posts tagged #AI-Economy – 28 posts.
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OpenAI develops movable AI speaker without screen
OpenAI is developing its first own hardware product, according to a report by the news agency Bloomberg: a movable speaker without a screen, meant to serve as a constant AI companion in the home. The…
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Anthropic Recruits Monzo Founder Blomfield for Compute Team
The British fintech founder Tom Blomfield is moving from Y Combinator to Anthropic and will work on the compute team on the computing capacity for Claude. He announced this himself on July 13, 2026…
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Nous Research aims for $1.5 billion valuation for Hermes
The AI startup Nous Research is reportedly negotiating a new funding round of at least $75 million, according to a report by TechCrunch. The valuation of the company behind the open AI agent Hermes…
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Microsoft CEO Nadella warns of cost trap in AI usage
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has warned companies in a blog post published on July 12, 2026, about a cost trap with commercial AI models. Those who use external systems not only pay with money but…
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DeepSeek aims for $70 billion valuation – weeks after record round
DeepSeek is already negotiating fresh capital about six weeks after its first major external financing. The news agency Reuters reports, citing the Financial Times, of a new round amounting to…
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Anthropic Launches Claude for Teachers for US Schools
Anthropic is bringing Claude for Teachers, a free AI tool for educators, to US schools. Verified K-12 teachers gain free access to features for lesson planning and differentiation. Until now, these…
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PixVerse Raises $439 Million for AI Video Platform
Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse has extended its Series C funding round to a total of $439 million, TechCrunch reports. The company's valuation climbs past two billion dollars for the first…
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Intel Invests €5 Billion in AI Chip Plant in Ireland
Intel is investing €5 billion to expand its chip plant in Leixlip near Dublin, the company announced in a press release. The expansion upgrades the existing factory to manufacture Xeon 6 series…
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Anthropic Introduces Rupee Pricing for Claude in India
Anthropic has started showing users in India rupee prices for Claude this week, ranging from roughly 2,000 to about 24,000 rupees per month, TechCrunch first reported. An annual subscription to the…
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S&P Downgrades Oracle's Credit Rating Over OpenAI Risk
Rating agency S&P Global downgraded Oracle's creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- on July 9, 2026, just one notch above junk status. S&P cites Oracle's growing dependence on OpenAI, which by its own…
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TSMC Reaches 36 Percent More Revenue Amid AI Demand
Taiwanese contract chipmaker TSMC reported consolidated revenue of about $39.6 billion for the second quarter of 2026, up 36 percent from the same period last year. In June alone, revenue jumped 67.9…
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SpaceX Aims for Data Centers in Orbit – Experts Are Skeptical
SpaceX says it plans to deliver one gigawatt of compute capacity for artificial intelligence using satellites in Earth orbit by the end of 2027. The first craft in the series, AI1, is set to launch…
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Apple Plans M7 Ultra With 1.5 Terabytes of Memory for AI
Apple is working on a new chip called the M7 Ultra that will support up to 1.5 terabytes of memory, according to a report from Bloomberg journalist Mark Gurman. That would be roughly double the…
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Samsung Raises AI Memory Prices by Up to 20 Percent
Samsung is backing price increases of 15 to 20 percent for HBM4 memory chips in the second half of 2026, according to a report by trade publication DigiTimes, because demand for AI accelerators is…
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Google Opens AI Lab for African Startups in Accra
Google has opened its first Applied AI Lab for Africa in Accra and is accepting applications from startups and researchers until August 31, 2026. Selected teams get early access to Google's AI…
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Claude Code: US software jobs grow by 15 percent
Job postings for software developers in the USA have increased by nearly 15 percent since February 2025, while the overall job market shrank by seven percent during the same period. This is shown by…
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SK Hynix raises $26.5 billion in its Nasdaq debut
SK Hynix started on July 10, 2026, with depositary receipts on Nasdaq. The company raised $26.5 billion – the largest IPO of a foreign company in the history of US stock exchanges. The stock rose…
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Tencent negotiates Manus buyback – after Beijing's Meta intervention
Tencent is negotiating with Manus' early investors ZhenFund and HSG for the buyback of the Chinese AI agent startup from Meta – for at least two billion dollars. Beijing had previously instructed…
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Zhipu announces new AI research direction despite stock crash
Zhipu co-founder Tang Jie announces the "Touch-High" plan in an internal letter to all employees: The Chinese AI company will focus on AGI research for two years instead of rapid commercialization…
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OpenAI shuts down Atlas browser after nine months
OpenAI is discontinuing the standalone browser ChatGPT Atlas on August 9, 2026, nine months after its launch in October 2025. The company announced the move on July 9, 2026, along with several new…
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OpenAI manager Fidji Simo shifts to part-time advisory role
Fidji Simo, responsible for the entire application business at OpenAI, is leaving her full-time position and will now only work as a part-time consultant for the company. The trigger is a relapse of…
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AWS presents GraphRAG blueprint for pharmaceutical research
AWS presented a reference architecture for pharmaceutical research on July 8, 2026, in its own machine learning blog. At the center is a combination of a Bring Your Own Knowledge Graph (BYOKG) and…
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Microsoft replaces OpenAI and Anthropic in Excel and Outlook
Microsoft has begun, according to Bloomberg research from July 7, 2026, to no longer exclusively forward a portion of the AI requests in the Office applications Excel and Outlook to models from…
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DeepSeek develops its own AI chip for inference
According to a Reuters exclusive report from July 7, 2026, the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek is working on its own chip for inference workloads – that is, for the computation phase in which a pre-trained…
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Ollama raises $65 million for open AI models
The provider Ollama announced a Series B funding round of $65 million on July 9, 2026. As Ollama states in its blog, the investment firm Theory Ventures is leading the round. For the company, founded…
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Meta starts series production of its own AI chips in September
According to a Reuters exclusive report, Meta plans to begin mass production of a new generation of its own AI chips in September 2026. The basis of the reporting is an internal memo that was…
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Bernanke: Former Fed Chair in AI Oversight Committee of Anthropic
Anthropic has appointed former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke as a new member of its Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT). The company announced this in a statement on July 9, 2026. Bernanke, who led…
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SambaNova: 1 Billion Dollars at 11 Billion Valuation
The AI inference-focused chip manufacturer SambaNova announced the first close of a Series F funding round of over one billion US dollars on July 8, 2026. According to the announcement from lead…
