Demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure is outstripping available supply, and the imbalance is changing the way companies buy technology. The old tactic of waiting for a quarter-end discount now risks leaving a project stuck in the hardware queue. At the beginning of the year, many buyers didn’t see the shortage coming. “I think it’s a … Read more
Shares of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Elon Musk’s rocket developer and artificial intelligence company, rose more than 8% in late trading today after reporting earnings results that showed strong momentum in its AI business. The company, better known as SpaceX, reported third-quarter profit before certain costs such as stock compensation of 45 cents per share, … Read more
Google LLC is trying to wrest Nvidia Corp.’s hold on the artificial intelligence industry by launching a special version of the open-source PyTorch framework called TorchTPU that is designed to eliminate a key advantage of its rival. One of the reasons Nvidia and its GPUs remain so dominant in the AI industry is because the … Read more
An artificial intelligence startup called ASI Inc. that creates complex models of air traffic and energy networks announced today that it has raised $325 million in Series C funding, bringing its valuation to a whopping $3 billion. The round was led by Spark Capital and joined by participants including Citadel Securities, Craft Ventures, Meritech Capital, … Read more
Diffusion language model startup Inception AI Inc. has released Mercury 3, its new flagship model. In the company’s own benchmarks, Mercury 3 GPT-6 beat OpenAI Group PBC’s Luna and Anthropic PBC’s Claude Haiku by 5.5 in eight of 12 tests at four to eight times speed. The publication clears up the main doubts about Inception’s … Read more
Observability software pioneer Grafana Labs Inc. is flexing its muscles in the fast-growing market for artificial intelligence monitoring tools, unveiling a series of updates to its Grafana Cloud platform today at ObservabilityCON 2026. The startup announced a new suite of AI agents, including Assistant Watchers to monitor AI workloads and autonomous agents, and Grafana Cloud … Read more
Software testing company SmartBear Software Inc. is expanding its BearQ agent quality assurance system beyond test automation, releasing two new features today. Both additions target the part of quality assurance that artificial intelligence has made more difficult by speeding up coding. SmartBear calls them sources and workflows. Automating individual tests is no longer the bottleneck, … Read more
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered artificial intelligence technology from Chinese company DeepSeek Ltd. should be removed from all civilian federal agencies. The order, posted today on the Federal Register website, warned that DeepSeek’s AI models represent “multiple threat vectors” that could give the Chinese Communist Party “broad powers” to access American government infrastructure. … Read more
Dream Labs, a startup that aims to make robots smarter and capable of performing a wide variety of tasks, has raised $90 million in seed funding, coinciding with the launch of a public application programming interface that provides access to its basic universal robot model. Today’s round was co-led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures … Read more
SpaceX Corp. Chief Executive Elon Musk pledged today to give every child in America a single share of the space company’s stock. “This will be the first of many,” Musk wrote in the letter X contribution This revealed the move today. The announcement came a few hours after Anthropic PBC pledged donate at least 5% … Read more