AI

NeoCognition raises $40M to build AI agents that learn like humans NeoCognition, an AI research lab founded by Ohio State professor Yu Su, emerged from stealth with a $40M seed funding round to develop self-learning AI agents that build world models like humans. 📢 News Posting $40M FOR NECOGNITION TO BUILD AI AGENTS THAT LEARN … Read more

Google Cloud unleashes new AI chips to take on Nvidia’s dominance Google Cloud announced its eighth-generation TPUs on April 22, 2026, splitting them into two specialized chips: the TPU 8t for model training and TPU 8i for inference. The new chips deliver up to 3x faster training, 80% better performance per dollar, and support clustering … Read more

Amazon Invests Up to $25 Billion in Anthropic AI Partnership On April 9-20, 2026, Amazon announced an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic, with up to $20 billion more contingent on milestones, totaling up to $25 billion alongside prior $8 billion, alongside a partnership securing up to 5 GW of AWS compute capacity including Trainium … Read more

AI Could Let Hollywood Make 50 Films for the Price of One Blockbuster Recent reports from April 2026 highlight AI drastically reducing film production costs, enabling Hollywood-scale projects like Doug Liman’s Bitcoin movie to drop from $300M to $70M, with Runway’s CEO claiming AI could fund 50 films instead of one $100M blockbuster. 📢 News … Read more

Poke just made AI agents as simple as texting. Poke, an AI agent startup, launched publicly in March 2026, enabling users to interact via text messaging on iMessage, SMS, Telegram, and limited WhatsApp, with recent $10 million funding valuing it at $300 million. 📢 News Posting POKE LAUNCHED PUBLICLY IN MARCH 2026 Poke is betting … Read more

Cerebras Seeks $35B IPO on Heels of Massive OpenAI Partnership Cerebras is planning a $3B pre-IPO funding round at a $35B valuation and has secured a major partnership with OpenAI involving $20B-$30B in chip purchases over three years plus up to a 10% equity stake via warrants. 📢 News Posting $35B CEREBRAS IPO FOLLOWS OPENAI … Read more

Cursor eyes $2B funding round, $50B+ valuation in major AI investment deal AI coding startup Cursor (Anysphere) is in advanced talks to raise at least $2 billion in funding at a pre-money valuation exceeding $50 billion, nearly doubling its prior $29.3 billion valuation from five months ago. 📢 News Posting CURSORS $2B FUNDING ROUND TOPS … Read more

AMD’s Next-Gen AI Chips Poised to Power 2026 Data Centers AMD’s next-generation AI accelerators and enterprise CPUs are set for 2026 deployment, with the MI400 series launching in H2 2026 featuring 432GB HBM4 memory, and the Venice Zen 6 EPYC CPU arriving in late 2026 with up to 256 cores and 1.6 TB/s memory bandwidth—more … Read more