A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential chip defects on production lines in real time. It has raised $8.5 million in Series A bringing its total funding to around $12 million. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Febe, and others. Founded in 2018 by engineers Akanksha Jagwani (CTO) and Avni Agarwal (CEO), SixSense aims to address a fundamental challenge in semiconductor manufacturing: converting raw production data, from defect images to equipment signals, into real-time…
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Reddit reported its second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and it’s clear that the company’s focus on AI has ramped up considerably. One significant area of investment is growing its advertising business, supported by its AI-powered marketing tools. The results revealed that the majority of Reddit’s revenue continues to come from ads, which brought in $465 million, representing 93% of the company’s total revenue. Last month, Reddit launched two new features for advertisers: Reddit Insights, a tool that leverages the billions of posts and comments on the platform to spot trends and offer real-time insights for campaign strategies, and Conversation Summary Add-ons,…
Cardano may be quietly preparing for the most important leap in interoperability to date. It has been discovered that the newly emerging smart contract, Cardano.omft.Near, is carrying out ADA transactions using a nearby protocol. Blockchain analyst Vini Barbosa flagged this on July 30, bringing attention to the beginning of a formal integration with Chary’s Intents platform. A close-intention system allows frictionless asset swaps across more than 100 different tokens without traditional centralized exchange infrastructure.Public approval for Charles Hoskinson’s post adds more weight to the situation. His statement, “I’m glad you worked nearby” means this is not an isolated test. This…
Key Takeaways Coinbase stock fell 7% in after-hours trading as Q2 adjusted net income came in at just $33M, down from $524M in Q1. Coinbase bought $222M worth of Bitcoin during the quarter, bringing its crypto investment portfolio to $1.8B. Share this article Coinbase reported weaker-than-expected second-quarter results on Thursday, sending its stock down more than 7% in post-market trading, according to Yahoo Finance data. While the company posted $1.4 billion in net income under GAAP, bolstered by gains on crypto and strategic investments, its adjusted net income fell sharply to $33 million, down from $524 million in Q1.The results…
Apple on Thursday signaled that it’s getting more serious about its plans to catch up in the AI race. “We see AI as one of the most profound technologies of our lifetime. We are embedding it across our devices and platforms and across the company. We are also significantly growing our investments,” CEO Tim Cook said on the Q3 2025 earnings call with investors. “Apple has always been about taking the most advanced technologies and making them easy to use and accessible for everyone, and that’s at the heart of our AI strategy,” he added. Cook expanded on those comments…
AI research lab Anthropic’s AI models are now the top choice for enterprises, surpassing OpenAI. Anthropic now holds 32% of the enterprise LLM market share by usage, according to a report from Menlo Ventures released on Thursday. OpenAI holds the second-largest market share by usage among enterprises with 25%. The figure marks a strong reversal from even just a couple of years ago. Since 2023, OpenAI has seen its market share among enterprises decline sharply, according to the report, as Anthropic’s has steadily risen over the same timeframe. OpenAI held 50% of the enterprise market share by usage just two…
XRP Price Prediction – Support or Breakdown?The $XRP trades for around $3.09 and hovers at $3.00 just above important psychological and technical support. The chart clearly shows weakness, with XRP unable to regain its 9- or 21-day moving average (currently around $3.11-3.13). The candles these days are small, indecisive, and the momentum appears to be declining.XRP/USD 4 -Hours Chart -TradingViewWhat is even more concerning is the relative strength index (RSI), which is trapped in the low level of the 40s. If your XRP falls below the blue line at $3, your next major support will be $2.80, and if it…
It’s a strange glimpse into the human mind: if you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain “https://chatgpt.com/share,” you can find strangers’ conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judging by this person’s LinkedIn, which was easy to find based on the details in the chat log, they did not get the job). Someone else is…
Key Takeaways Tether racked up nearly $6 billion in profit in H1 2025. USDT supply surpassed $157 billion after a $13 billion increase during the quarter. Share this article Tether recorded around $4.9 billion in the second quarter of 2025, according to a new attestation report completed by BDO.The issuer of the largest stablecoin by market cap, USDT, made over $3 billion from its core business and another $2.6 billion from Bitcoin and gold gains, raking in $5.7 billion in the first half of 2025.On stablecoin issuance, USDT circulating supply increased to over $157 billion in Q2, up over $13…
At one point, an app called Twitterrific was one of the most popular iPhone apps for browsing Twitter. These days, the company behind that app, and the many apps that followed, is struggling. And AI may partially be to blame. On Wednesday, the company known as the Iconfactory admitted it was at a crossroads and was putting up several of its apps for sale due to a lack of resources. While the announcement positioned the matter as a situation where the Iconfactory’s app catalog had simply grown to include too many apps to keep up with and not enough time…