SambaNova funding hits $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation as General Atlantic leads a Series F and JPMorgan Chase signs on as an inference partner.
Qualcomm Tenstorrent deal talks reportedly value Jim Keller\'s AI chip startup at $8-10 billion, Qualcomm\'s biggest swing yet at Nvidia\'s AI dominance.
The June AI jobs report stunned Wall Street: US payrolls rose just 57,000 as AI-linked layoffs mounted and 720,000 workers left the labor force entirely.
The Meta AI testing scandal: contractors in Kenya posed as children and sent 45,000 crisis prompts to ChatGPT, Gemini and Character.AI without consent.
China\'s Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter AI trained entirely on domestic chips — a milestone US export controls were built to prevent.
Samsung\'s AI investment of $648 billion over ten years is South Korea\'s largest-ever corporate pledge, pouring money into chip factories, AI data centers and more.
The DeepMind exodus saw Google lose a Nobel laureate and the Transformer co-author to OpenAI and Anthropic, wiping out roughly $250 billion in Alphabet value.
