In seven days, Coatue valued Databricks at $190 billion, xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin's two-month-old River AI closed one of the largest seed rounds ever, and CodeRabbit became a unicorn - the AI money machine is running hotter than it did all summer.
Within roughly a day, SpaceXAI, OpenAI, and Meta all shipped new flagship models - and the defining battle was over price, not raw capability.
A UC San Diego team used off-the-shelf humanoid robots to complete two teleoperated gallbladder removals - moving humanoids from demo videos into the operating room.
China's AI champion is quietly designing an inference chip, a move that would cut its dependence on both Nvidia and Huawei - and its first-ever outside funding is fueling the push.
One of the world's best-known startup conferences returns to Moscone West, with 200+ sessions across six industry stages and Startup Battlefield 200.
The startup building "computers for AI agents" staged its inaugural Compute conference at the Chase Center, weeks after closing a $24M Series A.
