OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after nine months, appointing Wiz president and COO Dali Rajic to the top sales job. The change is part of a broader executive shake-up followi…
Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app and retiring unsuccessful AI features, including Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot L…
Nvidia announced that Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are willing to commit up to $500 billion to build AI data centers, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to 25% of the dif…
Apple Inc. is in talks to pay publishers for access to their content to power its upcoming Siri AI, according to The Wall Street Journal. The proposed model would compensate publishers based on usage …
Anthropic has begun watermarking Claude's outputs with invisible code to comply with the EU AI Act's Transparency Code, drawing criticism from some users on Reddit who fear being caught using AI for w…
Twitch, a subsidiary of Amazon, will by default use streamers' content to train generative AI models for Amazon, prompting backlash from creators who must manually opt out. Twitch Chief Product Office…
Google's Pixel 11 series will feature agentic AI powered by Gemini, allowing U.S. users to order groceries, book rides, get coffee, and make calls to businesses for reservations or appointments, with …
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, just three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion …
At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas, Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng made the case for keeping AI open, despite safety concerns. Ng advo…
Thrive Holdings, an OpenAI-backed firm that acquires traditional businesses and integrates AI into their workflows, has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation from investors including SoftBank, …
Sandbar, the startup behind the AI voice note-taking ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures. Co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi d…
VideoVerse's $250 million acquisition by Minute Media has collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures, with investors and creditors filing multiple lawsuits against founder Vinayak Shriv…
Sandbar, the startup behind the private voice ring Stream, has raised $36 million to date, including a $23 million Series A led by Adjacent and Kindred Ventures, and its co-founder and CEO Mina Fahmi …
Google announced the Pixel 11 series, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag, and new Gemini features at its Made by Google 2026 event. The Pixel 11 starts at $899, a $100 increase over the Pixel 10, with base stor…
Blacksmith, an AI code-testing startup founded in 2024, raised a $45 million Series B led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the company at $550 million, nearly 10 times its previous $60 million valuation f…
Accel closed an oversubscribed $550 million India fund within weeks, 19 months after its previous $650 million India fund, as part of a coordinated $3.5 billion global fundraising effort. The firm pla…
OpenAI launched a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux on Tuesday, extending ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex to Linux users worldwide. The preview release supports Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS, Debi…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced via X that the Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the 14th Google product to reach that milestone and one of the company's fastest-gr…
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime chief operating officer, announced Tuesday he is leaving the company to "start something new," ending a tenure that began in 2018 and included four years as CFO before…
River AI, a two-month-old AI startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a seed/Series A round led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC, with participation from Nvidia, AM…