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Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is reportedly in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, double the $6.6 billion it achieved in December 2025.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a coding and agentic model trained jointly with Cursor that undercuts rivals on price and token use, though it trails Fable 5 on benchmarks.
Meta plans to begin manufacturing its in-house Iris AI chip in September as it aims to double computing capacity to 14 gigawatts next year and cut its reliance on Nvidia.
OpenAI released GPT-Live, full-duplex voice models that listen and speak at once and hand hard questions to GPT-5.5, replacing ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode globally.
Meta will build its first Canadian data center, a 1-gigawatt AI facility in Alberta costing about C$13 billion, powered largely by a dedicated natural gas plant.
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