As Chinese EV makers compress development timelines, a Japanese startup is pitching AI tools to help domestic automakers keep pace. The race is now about speed.

A $66M Sequoia-led round doubles Blacksmith's valuation in two months, proving code validation is the new bottleneck in AI software development.

Expanding its X-energy deal, Amazon funds 12 unproven SMRs for Indiana, but no US small reactor is operating and the mid-2030s timeline is far from locked.

The Tel Aviv startup's code execution model formally verifies optimizations, turning AI into an agent for the hardware itself.

Nick Cammarata's Goodfire post has the AI world split - if he's right, monitoring frontier models just got a lot easier.

The Chinese startup's latest model threatens to upend AI economics and the valuations built on them.

The Series B, co-led by Forerunner and Menlo, signals a shift from solo AI copilots to collaborative agent workforces.

The chatbot startup's collapse hands Disney a ready-made AI team, with ex-CEO Karandeep Anand already installed as the entertainment giant's first CTO.

A military-backed startup's button-sized device is reshaping at-home hormone testing, and telehealth giants are racing to adopt it.

A decade after Elizabeth Holmes's startup collapsed, a viral documentary has reignited the Theranos story, while researchers remind founders that hype is no substitute for proof.

Pioneer Labs CEO Erika DeBenedictis is engineering microbes to terraform Mars, turning a sci-fi dream into a biotech business model.

The chip giant is buying the AI world-modeling startup founded by Dr. Fei-Fei Li, putting the prominent researcher in charge of AMD's AI research.