AI Takes Half of New Unicorn Roster
The numbers from the first half of 2026, compiled by data providers and reported by TechCrunch, tell a simple story: nearly 90 companies crossed the $1 billion valuation threshold for…
Microsoft Creates Frontier Unit to Install AI Inside Corporate Operations
Satya Nadella has a name for the part of artificial intelligence that never makes it into a keynote demo: the last mile. Microsoft’s chief executive moved this week to close…
Meta Says ‘Watermelon’ Model Matches GPT-5.5 in Internal Tests
The model has a fruit name and a budget to match. Meta Platforms’ next-generation large language model, code-named Watermelon, has matched OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 on key benchmark scores in internal testing,…
Meta in Talks With Samsung for $6.5 Billion AI Chip Foundry Order
Inside Samsung Electronics’ foundry division, the phone-chip orders that once set the calendar have given way to a different kind of customer. Meta Platforms is in talks with Samsung to…
Qualcomm in Talks With ByteDance on Custom AI Chip Design
The chip inside the phone is no longer the whole business. Qualcomm is in discussions with ByteDance to design custom artificial intelligence chips for the Chinese company’s data centers, according…
U.S. Lifts Export Restrictions on Anthropic’s Claude Models
The models had been on the list for months. The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s flagship Claude models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, according to CNBC, clearing…
OpenAI Offers U.S. Government 5% Stake in Exchange for GPT-5.6 Approval
The proposal landed days after the request to delay. Sam Altman has offered the U.S. government a 5% stake in OpenAI as a “national interest safeguard,” in exchange for a…
Meta Enters Cloud Market With AI Compute Offering
The data centers that train Meta’s models spend part of every day running near empty. Meta Platforms is now trying to sell that spare capacity, announcing plans to offer AI…
NVIDIA Makes Omniverse Free for Production Use
The engineers who build digital twins of factories and robots have paid for the software for years. Starting this week, they do not have to. NVIDIA said it is making…
Anthropic Launches Claude Science, a Workbench for Researchers
The frustration is familiar in any lab: a researcher has a stack of papers, a pile of experimental data and a question that spans both. General-purpose chatbots can summarize the…
