Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, officially closed a $2 billion…
Year: 2025
Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines
As publishers fret about decreased traffic from Google, the search giant has begun rolling out AI summaries in Discover, the main…
Military AI contracts awarded to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI
The Pentagon has opened the military AI floodgates and handed out contracts worth up to $800 million to four of…
Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model
As AI systems become more capable, speech is fast becoming the default way we communicate with machines. French AI startup Mistral has…
Meet Chef Aiman, the world’s first AI chef coming soon to Dubai
Dubai is set to open a restaurant called WOOHOO, where the kitchen is guided by an AI chef. It’s the…
Nvidia says it will restart AI chip sales to China
US technology giant Nvidia says it will soon resume sales of its high-end artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China. The…
Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI granted up to $200 million for AI work from Defense Department
The U.S. Department of Defense on Monday said it’s granting contract awards of up to $200 million for artificial intelligence development at…
Amazon jumps into AI vibe coding with preview of Kiro
Amazon’s cloud unit said Monday that it has released a preview of Kiro, a program developers can use to write code…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, acquires Windsurf
Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive…
Trump to unveil $70 billion in AI and energy investments
U.S. President Donald Trump will announce $70 billion in artificial-intelligence and energy investments on Tuesday, according to a White House official and a person familiar with…
Malaysia will require trade permits for US AI chips
Malaysia is taking on a bigger role in helping the U.S. prevent advanced AI chips from ending up in China.…
Prime Day event drove over $24B in US e-commerce sales, GenAI traffic was up 3,300%
Amazon’s Prime Day, which leads to an overall boost to U.S. e-commerce thanks to competitive sales, saw a significant increase…
Murphy Raises $15 Million for AI Debt Collection Agent
Spanish startup Murphy has raised $15 million for its AI-powered debt collection offering. The company says its pre-seed/seed funding round, announced Monday…
Meta to Make a Bid for Voice AI Startup PlayAI
Meta has reportedly acquired voice technology/artificial intelligence (AI) startup PlayAI. The “entire PlayAI team” is due to join Meta this week, Bloomberg News reported late Friday…
Philips Taps AI to Manage Unwieldy, Outdated Image Library
Every company’s marketing department has thousands of photos that teams must sort through to find matches for advertising campaigns. Doing…
First AI data supercluster going online in 2026, Zuckerberg says
Meta will invest in “hundreds of billions of dollars” in artificial intelligence with the world’s first supercluster online next…
AI Designs Innovative New Material to Cool Homes and Cut Energy Bills
Scientists have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to develop a groundbreaking material that can cool buildings without using electricity,…
Tesla to Launch Grok AI in Vehicles This July
Tesla is set to roll out its much-anticipated Grok AI in-car assistant this month, bringing advanced artificial intelligence capabilities to…
The EU Code of Practice and future of AI in Europe
Today, we’re announcing our intention to sign the EU’s Code of Practice for General Purpose AI—subject to the current version…
Could AI be accelerating slowdown in the UK job market?
Ask ChatGPT whether artificial intelligence is contributing to Britain’s cooling jobs market and the chatbot acknowledges its own role – but adds…