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OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first AI chip, built with Broadcom for inference, as it moves to cut its heavy reliance on Nvidia.

Apple suppliers Luxshare and Lingyi are racing to Hong Kong, raising billions to pivot from smartphone parts to AI hardware & humanoid robots.

The nonprofit is combining grants with founder-friendly investments to fund developers, researchers and startups building artificial general intelligence in the open, arguing that the future of intelligence should not be controlled by a handful of .. ...

Superhuman (formerly Grammarly) is buying AI detector GPTZero for an undisclosed sum. Inside the bet that "made by a human" becomes a product.

Hadrian is reportedly in talks to raise $1bn at a $7.5bn valuation, a number it calls "inaccurate". Inside the physical-AI and reindustrialisation rush.

Main Capital raised 5.25bn, the Netherlands' biggest-ever buyout fund, on a sub-0.5% loss rate & a contrarian bet that AI lifts enterprise software.

Menlo Ventures raised $3bn, its biggest fund in 50 years, on a ~$14bn Anthropic stake. Inside the bet, and whether it can be repeated.

Walmart's reported $1.4bn Vibe.co deal values the CTV ad startup at 12.6x revenue. Inside its bet to catch Amazon in retail media.

Zhipu weighs a multibillion-dollar share sale after a 2,000% surge and Anthropic's Fable 5 shutdown. Can it justify a $128bn valuation?

Former Citadel quantitative researcher Neel Somani explains why New England electricity prices spike in winter, tracing the problem to constrained pipeline capacity, competing gas demand and the economics of oil-fired peaker plants.