Startups
Flapping Airplanes Raises $1 Billion at a $6 Billion Valuation to Train AI With Less Data
Flapping Airplanes raised $1B at a reported $6B valuation to train AI with less data and squeeze far more work out of…
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Dylan Hart
Founder & editor-in-chief of Chip Current. Reviews and approves every story before it publishes.
Apps & Software
Walmart Opens Its Store to AI Shopping Agents — With Spending Caps and Its Own Rules
Walmart will let approved AI agents shop for you via its Agent Gateway, with spending caps and per-agent profiles — while Amazon…
AI
Meta’s Muse Agent Passes 10 Million Users as AI Spending Pushes Cash Flow Negative
Meta's Muse agent passed 10M users in six weeks and shopping is its top use, even as $34.9B in quarterly AI capex…
Big Tech
SpaceX and Tesla Are Formally Exploring a Merger — Musk Calls It ‘a Good Idea’
SpaceX and Tesla formed special committees to explore a merger Musk calls 'a good idea' — no terms agreed, as SpaceX posts…
Startups
A Robot Hand That Can Feel Helped Eka Robotics Reach a $1.45 Billion Valuation
Eka Robotics closed a $150M Series A at a $1.45B valuation for a force-sensing gripper and model that pick 1,500 objects an…
Big Tech
Samsung and SK Hynix Upgrade China Plants for More Advanced Memory Chips as YMTC Gains Ground
Samsung and SK Hynix are upgrading their China plants to make higher-layer NAND for AI demand, Reuters reported, as YMTC gains share.
AI
Anthropic’s Cloud Partners Now See It as a Rival, Its Leaked IPO Filing Says
Anthropic's leaked S-1 says AWS, Google and Microsoft see it as a rival as it hunts cloud capacity, with a possible $750B…
Big Tech
China’s Tech Giants Ordered $35 Billion of Nvidia’s Weaker AI Chips — and Nvidia May Deliver Only a Fraction
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent ordered 3M+ Nvidia RTX PRO 5500 cards worth $35B+, but Nvidia may deliver only 5-10%, Reuters reported.
Big Tech
A Google Cloud Outage in London Took Down Revolut’s Banking Services Worldwide
A Google Cloud failure in its London region disrupted Revolut worldwide on Tuesday, with UK bank customers reporting problems through the morning.
AI
US Orders DeepSeek Out of Federal Civilian Agencies — Including Tools Built on Its Models
DHS ordered civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek — and any third-party tools built on its models — and barred new purchases of…
Startups
Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion at a $6.2 Billion Valuation to Scale Open-Weight AI Chips
Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation — more than double its late-2024 mark — to scale chips for open-weight…
Cybersecurity
One Hacker Let AI Agents Break Into More Than 100 Company Websites for About $5,000
A lone hacker let AI agents try more than 1,200 sites and break into over 100 company websites — for about $5,000…