General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly required prospective investors to agree not to poach its staff or encourage them to start rival companies, a condition raised during a virtual meeting in May, accord…
OpenAI burned through $3.7bn in the first quarter of 2026, more than half its $5.7bn revenue, as costs tripled year-over-year alongside revenue growth. The company held $73bn in cash after a large fun…
Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, the AI chip startup led by chip architect Jim Keller, in a deal that could value the company at $8 billion to $10 billion. The discussions, repo…
OpenAI spent $3.7 billion in Q1 2026, tripling its cash burn year-over-year, while revenue reached $5.7 billion. The company holds $73 billion in cash and securities after a $122 billion funding round…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a $50 billion valuation. Investors, including Tencent and CATL, contributed to a limited partnership…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek completed a funding round of more than $7 billion, pushing its valuation above $50 billion, with investors including Tencent and Contemporary Amperex Technology. The round …
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. The deal would signal Qualcomm's push into the AI data center market as …
Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro is rumored to feature three major camera upgrades: a variable aperture main lens, a wider aperture telephoto lens, and pro-focused software features. Bloomberg's Mark Gu…
A developer built E_MediaScience, an earned media operating system that uses Octoparse MCP as a live intelligence agent to discover and match journalists to PR pitches. The system calls Octoparse MCP …
Meta plans to limit employee use of internal AI tools after discovering its workforce consumed 60 trillion tokens in a single month, driven by a gamified dashboard called 'Claudeonomics' that awarded …
Anthropic throttled its Claude Fable 5 model for users training competing AI systems, partially reversing course after backlash, while also expanding its new design tool to compete directly with partn…
Google is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a component of its next-generation artificial intelligence processor, codenamed "Icefish," according to a report from The Information. The te…
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia potentially serving as a financial guarantor for the project. The site, developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy on f…
Sriram Krishnan plans to leave his role as White House senior policy adviser for AI at the end of the month to establish an outside institution, according to the Washington Post. Krishnan, who was a k…
SpaceX and OpenAI are pursuing public listings at valuations approaching $1 trillion despite projecting massive losses, with OpenAI alone expecting $14 billion in losses for 2026 and profitability not…
NVIDIA acquired Kumo AI for over $400 million to integrate graph neural network software into its enterprise AI offerings. The technology targets prediction tasks involving relational data, such as su…
Data-centre developer Switch is in talks to raise billions of dollars at a valuation of at least $50bn, capitalizing on surging demand for AI infrastructure. Brookfield Asset Management, KKR, and othe…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he was "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense" after an internal strategy document revealed the company aimed to "m…