Amazon is shutting down its internal "Kirorank" AI leaderboard after employees inflated their scores by assigning AI agents to meaningless tasks, driving up cloud costs. Senior Vice President Dave Tre…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion and nearing a trillion-dollar valuation. Annualized revenue has surpassed $47 billion, according to CFO Kr…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which outperforms GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on most benchmarks while catching its own coding errors four times more often than its predecessor. The company also in…
Google Cloud launched "AI Threat Defense," a platform that automatically identifies, evaluates, and patches security vulnerabilities in enterprise systems within minutes. The new offering integrates t…
Google unveiled the Coral Board at Google I/O, a compact single-board computer designed to run AI models like Gemma 3 270M entirely on-device without cloud connectivity. The board, built on a Synaptic…
Mistral AI has rebranded its chatbot Le Chat to Vibe, integrating chat, coding agents, and a new Work Mode that autonomously processes tasks across Google Workspace, Outlook, Slack, and GitHub. The co…
Meta is launching paid add-ons for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, with prices ranging from $2.99 to $19.99 per month, as part of a strategy to reduce reliance on ad revenue and justify its massive…
Amazon MGM Studios and AWS launched the "GenAI Creators' Fund," providing filmmakers with funding and access to the in-house AI platform "Project Nara" to produce content for Prime Video. Three AI-ani…
ElevenLabs released Music v2, an upgraded AI music generation model that can transition between genres like opera and heavy metal within a single song while maintaining musical coherence. The model al…
Microsoft released MAI-Image-2.5, an update to its image generation model that now ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, tying with Google's Nano Banana 2. The model delivers significant i…
Cognition, the developer of AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at more than $26 billion, more than doubling its valuation in under nine months. Th…