SpaceX’s acquisition of Anysphere’s Cursor is one of the largest deals in AI’s history, marking a dramatic expansion of SpaceX into software services.
Year: 2026
MiniMax M3 Achieves 9x Faster AI Prefilling and 15x Faster Decoding for Long Contexts
MiniMax’s sparse attention architecture for its M3 model delivers massive speed improvements for processing large documents and code repositories.
Q2 2026 AI Funding Hits $42.6 Billion Across 312 Rounds with Agentic Startups Leading
Global AI investment in the second quarter reached $42.6 billion, with autonomous AI agent companies capturing almost half of all capital raised.
Orion-100B Trains 100-Billion-Parameter AI Model for Just $1.25 Per Hour in Cost Breakthrough
Orion AI demonstrated that training a 100-billion-parameter model can cost as little as $1.25 per hour, dramatically reducing barriers to frontier AI research.
Itential FlowAI Platform Launches Enabling AI Agents to Reason Over Live Production Networks
Itential released FlowAI on June 1, allowing enterprise IT teams to deploy reasoning AI agents called FlowAgents directly on live production networks.
Rosalind Biodefense Platform Gives Vetted Researchers Access to GPT-Rosalind for Pandemic Prep
A new platform provides controlled access to a specialised AI model for public health researchers working on pandemic preparedness and biodefense.
EPFL Researchers Shrink Powerful Femtosecond Laser onto a Chip After 20 Years
Scientists at EPFL developed the first chip-scale ultrafast laser matching tabletop femtosecond performance, enabling miniaturised advanced photonics applications.
DeepSeek V4 Pro Cuts Price 75% Putting Pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic in Asia
DeepSeek’s dramatic price reduction for its flagship model intensified the AI cost war, especially for enterprise users in Asia-Pacific markets.
AI Search Advertising Forecast to Become Substantial Market Share of Digital Spend by 2030
New projections show AI-powered search platforms will command a significant portion of digital advertising budgets within four years.
Anthropic’s MCP Protocol Donated to Linux Foundation’s New Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic donated its Model Context Protocol to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation as part of efforts to standardise how AI agents interact with tools.