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Today's AI Brief
- Databricks Hits $188B Valuation, Extending Its Run as AI's Favorite Second Act & Funding Details
- The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums as Dollars Still Flow to AI
- Nuclear Startup Valar Atomics in Talks to Raise New Funding at $6B Valuation
- Inference Cloud Operator General Compute Raises $400M in Debt Financing
- EY Re-envisions RAG Around Multimodal Knowledge Graphs to Improve Accuracy
- Brex Built Its AI Agent Policy by Watching What Agents Actually Do, Not by Writing Rules First
- Kimi K2.7 Code Now Available on Serverless Inference with Leading Benchmark Price-Performance
- CoreWeave Trains DeepSeek-V3 Benchmark in Two Minutes
- Capital One Releases VulnHunter, an Open-source AI Tool That Finds Software Flaws Before Hackers Do
- Google-backed Satellites for Wildfire Detection Launch as Smoke Chokes US, Canada
Today
Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism.".
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s first reinvention rebuilt the company. It was frankly about survival. Its next reinvention must redefine the company.
The government is piloting a program that uses AI for insurance-coverage decisions.
Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it'd been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator's scraping.
Now that Google has changed how its usage quotas are tallied, you might not get as many AI responses as you did before.
"Context bombing" tricks malicious AI agent into shutting down before they can do harm.
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be.
Yesterday
The window is almost shut.
From AI workflows to battery life and security, here's what it's really like to live with Vertu's luxury foldable every day.
Databricks has remade its image into an AI company and has published research on the cost savings of open weight AI model for coding.
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter , an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how.
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line.
Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup General Compute Inc. today announced that it secured $400 million in debt financing. Upper90, the investment firm that is underwriting the round, will initially provide the company with $100 million.
Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.
India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds.
The potential deal highlights a growing trend of complex, multi-stage funding rounds that mask true entry prices.
Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agent down.
In this post, we walk through a few ways that Quick delivers on this promise.
The Compute Exchange Inc., a procurement marketplace for reserved graphics processing unit capacity, today launched a dedicated marketplace for used and refurbished GPU, extending the platform into physical artificial intelligence hardware sourcing.
Retrieval-augmented generation is a standard way to ground large language models in enterprise information, but new research from EY, the business name of Ernst & Young LLP, says most implementations overlook a lot of useful data.
OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale.
Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it's not messing around.
The cost of writing code dropped; the cost of owning it didn't. A framework for deciding which changes are actually cheap in the AI era.
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
In this post, we cover a high-level view of the Smartsheet remote MCP architecture, with a focus on the AWS infrastructure behind it.
Patreon is strengthening its defenses against AI scraping by working with Cloudflare to block bots that train AI model on creators' content without.
Lowest cost per token from extreme codesign maximizes intelligence per dollar for post-training in the agentic era.
CoreWeave Inference achieves the highest output speed for the newly-launched Kimi K2.7 Code and ranks in the most attractive price-performance quadrant.
Most AI training investments don't underperform because of the models. Learn why infrastructure execution quality is the real variable and what it takes to close ROI gaps.
Enterprise AI leaders often think more GPU equals faster time-to-market. The reality is more complex. Read on for five misconceptions about enterprise AI training that inflate TCO and slow delivery.
CoreWeave unifies training and inference so AI agent can learn in production, improve autonomously, and evolve into productive coworkers with serverless RL and observability.
AI's center of gravity has moved from training to inference. Here is what that shift demands from the infrastructure underneath it.
Scaling AI training changes how systems fail. Learn the four architectural layers required for reliable distributed training at production scale.
GLM 5.2 is available now on CoreWeave Serverless Inference. Here's why open weights matter, how the model performs, and what you can build with it today.
In partnership with CoreWeave's physical AI team, nTop ran 10,000 Large-Eddy Simulations of a UAV wing in 32 hours, hitting a NASA CFD Vision 2030 stretch target four years ahead of schedule.
AI Cloud Essentials kicks off its third season on July 14, 2026, highlighting how CoreWeave's AI-native cloud helps entrepreneurs move their AI innovations from idea to production.
Patches in days. Exploits in hours. What AI infrastructure has to do differently, and the questions every security team should be asking.