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Funding

Ex-Spotify engineers raise $10M for Malachyte, an e-commerce personalization startup

Malachyte, an e-commerce personalization startup founded by three former Spotify engineers, has raised $10 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gradient, with participation from Harpoon Ventures. Malachyte adapts Spotify's Vector AI recommendation system to predict shopper intent in real time, using behavioral signals like clicks and hovers to personalize storefronts without requiring accounts or purchase history. The platform is live on Shopify and via API for larger retailers.

Aug 64 minNeura News

AI Models

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Max Opens the Floodgates for 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Autonomous AI

Alibaba's Qwen team unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter open-weight model for long-horizon autonomous tasks, with weights releasing next week. The model demonstrated autonomous coding, research reproduction, chip design, and e-commerce management, outperforming human teams in a competition. It arrives amid intense competition in China's open-model ecosystem, following Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release.

Aug 36 minNeura News

Industry

White House Divided Over How to Handle Chinese AI Advances

The Trump administration is split on how to respond to China's rapidly advancing AI models. The White House wants stricter controls to prevent Chinese labs from using US models via distillation, while the Commerce Department views such restrictions as impractical. The debate intensified after China's Moonshot AI released its Kimi K3 model, which rivals top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI.

Jul 223 minNeura News

Industry

SK Hynix raises $26.5B in biggest foreign IPO in US history

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its U.S. market debut, the largest-ever IPO by a non-American company, surpassing Alibaba's 2014 record. The South Korean memory chip maker's stock surged 14% on opening as demand exceeded supply by seven times. Meanwhile, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged the company and competitors to build new factories in the United States.

Jul 103 minNeura News

AI Models

US Gets Pre-Release Access to AI Models from Five Labs for Security Tests

The US Department of Commerce's Center for AI Standards and Innovation has agreements with five major AI labs for pre-release testing of models on national security risks. New pacts with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI build on deals with Anthropic and OpenAI. CAISI Director Chris Fall stressed the need for rigorous evaluation of frontier AI.

May 53 minNeura News

Industry

US to Test New AI Models from Google, Microsoft, xAI

The US Department of Commerce will evaluate upcoming AI models from Google, Microsoft, and xAI for safety and capabilities before public release. The companies agreed to submit their tools voluntarily to the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. This builds on prior pacts with OpenAI and Anthropic from the Biden era, amid a shift in the Trump administration's approach to AI oversight.

May 53 minNeura News

Automation

Anthropic Tests Marketplace for AI Agent Commerce

Anthropic ran Project Deal, a pilot where AI agents acted as buyers and sellers for 69 employees with $100 budgets each. The experiment saw 186 deals worth over $4,000. Advanced models delivered better results, though participants did not notice the differences.

Apr 253 minNeura News