Bezos Backs Flourish's $500M Bet on Brain-Inspired AI

Bezos Backs Flourish's $500M Bet on Brain-Inspired AI

Jeff Bezos anchored a $500M round for Flourish, a New York startup building Cortex AI from connectomics research, targeting 20-50W operation versus server-rack GPU clusters.

OpenCode Hits 8M Users, a Year from a Toronto Meetup

OpenCode reaches 8 million monthly users and 172K GitHub stars in one year, displacing Claude Code as the most-starred open-source coding agent.

Orbital Plans 10,000 GPU Satellites for AI Inference

a16z-backed Orbital wants to run AI inference from low Earth orbit using NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, targeting 10,000 satellites and 1 GW of compute at full scale.

Anthropic Releases Fable 5 Despite Its Own AI Safety Warning

Anthropic opens Mythos-class capabilities to the public with Claude Fable 5 at $10/$50 per million tokens, days after calling for a global AI pause.

OpenAI Files for IPO, Eyes $1 Trillion Valuation

OpenAI filed a confidential S-1 with the SEC on June 8, targeting a public debut above $1 trillion as early as September 2026, following Anthropic by one week.