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OpenAI’s latest announcement—published on May 20th 2026—marks what could be the first genuine instance of a general-purpose AI model solving a long-standing open problem in mathematics. The so-called planar unit distance problem, proposed in 1946 by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős, asks whether it is …
During a Y Combinator event on Tuesday, Sam Altman, chief executive of OpenAI, unveiled a sweeping offer: $2m in OpenAI tokens to every startup in the accelerator’s current cohort, provided in exchange for equity via an uncapped SAFE (simple agreement for future equity). The …
Key HighlightsSpaceX has filed confidentially for an IPO that could raise between $40bn and $80bn, per WSJ filingsThe proposed valuation could reach $1.25tn—making it potentially the largest public offering in historyThe IPO seeks to monetise SpaceX’s satellite internet service, xAI, and former TwitterAssetsunder one …
Key HighlightsImperagen, a Cambridge-based biotech startup, has raised £5m ($6.7m) in seed funding to merge quantum physics with AI for enzyme engineering.The round was led by Cambridge InnovationCapitalwith participation from Oxford Science Enterprises and angel investors.Enzyme engineering traditionally relies on costly trial-and-error; Imperagen claims …
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has filed its IPO prospectus—an event that would normally be celebrated for its technological audacity and market disruption. Yet the filing reads less like a standard disclosure and more like a cautionary tale about founder risk. In its 1,500-page …
IrisGo is quietly building what may become the default AI companion for the desktop—an always-on assistant that sits in the system tray, intercepts keystrokes, and automates repetitive workflows without shipping data to a distant cloud. Backed by Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera and former …
Isomorphic Labs (private), the secretive AI lab spun out of DeepMind, is edging closer to human trials of compounds it claims were invented by machine-learning models. The company’s stated ambition—“solve all diseases”—is both a rallying cry and a provocation in an industry where the …
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Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by former OpenAI researchers, is on the cusp of a historic financial milestone: its first profitable quarter. The company has privately informed investors that it expects to generate $10.9bn in revenue for the second quarter of 2026—more than …
Anthropic’s decision to commit $1.25bn a month to xAI’s Colossus 1 data-centre is less a rational procurement choice than a declaration of existential urgency. The figure—reported via SpaceX’s regulatory filings and corroborated by Dealroom—translates to roughly $45bn over the life of the contract, which …
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