AI Providers Cut Consumer Subscription Prices
Google reduced the price of its Google AI Plus subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled included storage to 400GB. OpenAI is considering significant consumer price reductions, while Meta…
Google reduced the price of its Google AI Plus subscription from $7.99 to $4.99 per month and doubled included storage to 400GB. OpenAI is considering significant consumer price reductions, while Meta…
Coinbase launched "Coinbase for Agents" on June 11, 2026, a platform enabling AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude to connect directly to user accounts for executing spot crypto and derivatives trade…
OpenAI filed a prospectus with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, following Anthropic's confidential submission a week earlier, while SpaceX's IPO is slated to price imminently, according to…
Amazon executive chairman Jeff Bezos compared artificial intelligence to a knife, arguing that regulation should target how AI is applied rather than banning the technology itself. Speaking at a CNBC …
OpenAI announced on June 11, 2026 that it will acquire Ona, a startup providing secure, customer-controlled cloud environments for AI agents, to expand the capabilities of its coding assistant Codex. …
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, its first publicly available Mythos-class model, on June 9, alongside an updated Claude Mythos 5 configuration. The company said Fable 5 excels at software engineeri…
DoorDash launched a new AI chatbot called "Ask DoorDash" on Thursday that allows users to order food and groceries using text prompts, recipe links, or photos instead of traditional search. The chatbo…
Uber's CTO revealed that the company's entire annual AI budget was exhausted by April 2026 due to agentic AI costs, with monthly API expenses per engineer ranging from $500 to $2,000. OpenAI CEO Sam A…
The Trump administration is in talks with OpenAI about taking an equity stake in the AI company, according to reports. The discussions, which began in 2025 when CEO Sam Altman proposed the idea, could…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed on June 5 that an AI model is now designing OpenAI’s next-generation system, based on direct conversations with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and company engineers. Son sai…
President Donald Trump said Friday he has discussed potential deals with AI companies that would allow the American public to benefit from AI success, and CNBC reported the administration is specifica…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion valuation and filed for a US initial public offering, according to multiple outlets. The AI startup reported a $47 billion annualized…
Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month starting October 2026 through June 2029 for access to xAI's data centers, according to a SpaceX SEC filing. The deal, valued at $30 billion, gran…
Anthropic has confidentially filed for a U.S. initial public offering, moving ahead of rival OpenAI in the race to go public, Reuters reports. The filing follows a $65 billion funding round that value…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and White House officials have held ongoing discussions for over a year about a potential U.S. government equity stake in the company, with Altman first pitching the idea to Pres…
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and related components housed at SpaceX's xAI data centers, according …
Enterprises are increasingly adopting "model routing" to match tasks with the cheapest adequate AI model, a shift that threatens revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Glean CEO Arvind Jain estimates 95% o…
For the first time in history, artificial intelligence and automated bots now generate more internet traffic than humans, with 57.4% of all web activity coming from automations compared to 42.7% from …
The European Commission on June 3-5, 2026 proposed a "European Technological Sovereignty Package" including a Chips Act 2.0, Cloud and AI Development Act, and Open Source Strategy to reduce the EU's r…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son told CNBC that an AI model is currently designing OpenAI's next model, predicting the resulting system will be "exponentially smarter than all of us" and represent a form of…