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Goldman Sachs released new estimates this week projecting $200+ billion in AI infrastructure spending for 2025—data centers, chips, networking, power...
Read more →Amazon is in talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI and get the company to use its custom Trainium chips instead of NVIDIA hardware. If the d...
Read more →PitchBook data released this week shows AI companies raised $97 billion in venture funding through November 2025—already surpassing 2024's total. But...
Read more →Databricks closed a $4+ billion Series L yesterday, valuing the company at $134 billion—up from $100 billion just three months ago. That's the kind o...
Read more →Layoffs.fyi shows over 157,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025 through November—and December isn't finished yet. That's down from 2024's 262,000...
Read more →Google announced native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in Gemini last week, and most people missed why this matters. MCP is Anthropic's open st...
Read more →Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported this week that the "really useful" version of Siri won't arrive until spring 2026—over a year later than o...
Read more →SQL Server 2025 launched this week with native AI capabilities baked directly into the database engine. Not third-party integrations. Not external AP...
Read more →Three senior members of Anthropic's AI safety team resigned this week, and while the company insists it's routine turnover, people who know how these...
Read more →GitHub Copilot has been out for over two years. Cursor, Replit, and a dozen other AI coding assistants are everywhere. We were promised AI would 10x ...
Read more →The news industry is rapidly being reshaped by AI, with generative tools creating summaries, articles, and "AI overviews". But as AI integra...
Read more →The AI infrastructure boom has been the financial story of the year, driving huge debt issuances from Big Tech and emerging AI players to fund the mas...
Read more →The dream of autonomous robots in space just got a huge boost. Researchers from Stanford have successfully demonstrated that machine-learning control ...
Read more →While the US government is focused on domestic industrial strategy and China on technological dominance, a different, quieter battle is being fought o...
Read more →We all use GitHub Copilot. It’s a game-changer for finishing that line of boilerplate code or generating a function in a language you’re rusty on. Bu...
Read more →We’ve seen AI take over our IDEs (Copilot), our browsers (ChatGPT Atlas), and our operating systems (OpenAI's Sky acquisition). The one sacred space ...
Read more →Something truly notable happened last month in Johannesburg that was barely picked up by the US tech press: the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders, despit...
Read more →If you thought the AI funding rounds were slowing down, you were wrong. The money pouring into the generative AI space this week is eye-watering, but...
Read more →The most exciting applications of AI aren't always the ones generating viral videos; sometimes, they're the ones solving existential human problems. T...
Read more →If you thought the AI wars were just about models and data centers, think again. NVIDIA just dropped $2 billion to invest in chip design software gia...
Read more →I’ve been tracking the AI policy debates closely, and one thing is clear: governments and tech companies are chasing a moving target. Australia's Nat...
Read more →Just as Anthropic is locking in its $30 billion compute commitment to Microsoft Azure and securing $10 billion in investment from NVIDIA, they droppe...
Read more →OpenAI just made a classic stealth move this week that says more about their long-term business model than any new GPT-5.1 Instant feature. They anno...
Read more →We all know the dirty secret of modern AI: it’s an absolute power hog. A large AI data center can consume as much electricity as 80,000 homes. The en...
Read more →Canva, the design tool that democratized graphic creation for non-designers, just dropped a major refresh called the "Creative Operating System&...
Read more →We all love our proprietary AI code assistants, but let’s be honest: the subscription fees add up, and the cost of using long context windows feels pr...
Read more →While the AI giants were busy flexing their multi-billion parameter proprietary models, an absolute beast just dropped from the open-source community...
Read more →Just when you thought the AI agent race was settled between Google's Antigravity platform and OpenAI's newly acquired Sky team, a dark horse has emerg...
Read more →Four stories broke this week that seem unrelated but tell the same story: AI is transitioning from a technology race to an infrastructure war. Congre...
Read more →Two weeks ago, OpenAI dropped Shopping Research in ChatGPT. The idea was brilliant: tell the AI what you need—a quiet cordless vacuum, a unique gift ...
Read more →Four seemingly unrelated stories broke this week, but they tell a single, coherent story: AI is transitioning from a technology race to an infrastruc...
Read more →We keep hearing about the "fierce competition" between AI labs: OpenAI vs. Anthropic, Google vs. Microsoft, Meta vs. NVIDIA. But when you l...
Read more →Congressmen Ted Lieu and Neal Dunn introduced the AI Fraud Deterrence Act on Tuesday, and it's one of the few bipartisan things happening in Washingt...
Read more →Meta is negotiating to spend billions on Google's custom AI chips, and the market immediately understood what that means. Alphabet stock jumped 2-3% ...
Read more →Congress is finally reacting to the AI crime wave, and they came out swinging. Congressmen Ted Lieu and Neal Dunn introduced the AI Fraud Deterrence ...
Read more →We all know NVIDIA runs the AI world right now. Their chips are the gold standard, and their CUDA software ecosystem is the giant moat keeping compet...
Read more →OpenAI launched global group chats. Google shipped Gemini 3 to 2 billion people. Microsoft built agent infrastructure into Windows 11. Anthropic sign...
Read more →OpenAI launched Shopping Research in ChatGPT yesterday, and it's actually good. You describe what you're looking for—"find the quietest cordless...
Read more →President Trump signed an executive order Monday launching the "Genesis Mission," which he's calling comparable to the Manhattan Project in...
Read more →The latest Microsoft 365 Copilot release brings powerful new capabilities that address critical business needs: cost management, governance, and acce...
Read more →President Trump signed an executive order launching the Genesis Mission this week, which he's explicitly comparing to the Manhattan Project in terms ...
Read more →For the last few years, the talk in US AI policy has been dominated by the word "guardrails." But a quiet, decisive pivot has happened: the...
Read more →The Trump administration spent the past week trying to kill state-level AI regulation. First they pushed for a moratorium in the defense bill. Then t...
Read more →Remember when AI assistants were supposed to be your private helper? Well, OpenAI just threw that out the window. After a six-day pilot in a handful ...
Read more →Google dropped Nano Banana Pro this week, and for once the hype is justified. This is the first image generation model that can reliably render legib...
Read more →If you've ever tried to generate a poster or a meme using DALL-E or Midjourney, you know the pain: the text is always a complete, illegible mess. It'...
Read more →OpenAI dropped ChatGPT for Teachers last week—a completely free version for K-12 educators that'll stay free until at least June 2027. About 150,000 ...
Read more →xAI quietly dropped Grok 4.1 and its API pricing this week, and while everyone's talking about benchmark scores, they're missing the actual news: Elo...
Read more →OpenAI just made a classic power play: they launched a completely free version of ChatGPT for K-12 educators that comes with all the premium features...
Read more →Anthropic announced a $30 billion commitment to Microsoft Azure this week, paired with $15 billion in investments from Microsoft and NVIDIA. The head...
Read more →ChatGPT went down. X stopped loading. Shopify, Discord, Coinbase, and hundreds of other sites threw error messages. Tuesday morning, a huge chunk of ...
Read more →Google launched Gemini 3 on Tuesday, and while everyone's talking about benchmark scores, they're missing the actual story: this is the first time a ...
Read more →Microsoft dropped some genuinely interesting AI infrastructure at Ignite this week. They're building native agent support directly into Windows 11—no...
Read more →The headlines focused on the sheer size of the deal: Anthropic is committing to spend $30 billion on Microsoft Azure compute capacity over the coming...
Read more →Google launched Gemini 3 this week, and while everyone is debating the 1501 Elo score on LMArena, they're missing the actual, defining story: this is...
Read more →xAI's Colossus supercomputer started with 100,000 GPUs. Three months later they doubled it to 200,000. Now they're planning to hit one million GPUs, ...
Read more →Something shifted in AI this past week. Not in the models themselves—those keep getting incrementally better—but in how they're reaching users. Three...
Read more →Sixty-seven percent of senior HR executives say AI is already impacting jobs at their companies. Eighty-nine percent expect AI to affect jobs within ...
Read more →The Bi-Weekly Byte: Microsoft 365 Copilot Updates (October 28 – November 12, 2025) Welcome to the latest roundup of Microsoft 365 Copilot updates, wh...
Read more →Yoshua Bengio just became the first person in history to have their work cited over one million times on Google Scholar. Let me repeat that: ONE. MIL...
Read more →Meta dropped something genuinely important last week: Omnilingual ASR, an open-source speech recognition system that supports over 1,600 languages. I...
Read more →Days after Xi Jinping met Trump in South Korea, Beijing ordered all state-funded data centers to stop using foreign AI chips. No more NVIDIA. No more...
Read more →NVIDIA became the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion valuation amid unprecedented AI demand , and honestly? The numbers are so big they'...
Read more →So OpenAI and Amazon Web Services just signed what might be the biggest infrastructure deal in AI history, and honestly? It's kind of a big deal that...
Read more →So here's a sentence I didn't think I'd be writing in 2025: Wall Street is starting to wonder if we've all been a little too enthusiastic about AI. T...
Read more →Beijing-based Moonshot AI just released Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion-parameter open-source model that can execute 200-300 sequential tool calls witho...
Read more →Claude's Memory rollout for all paid users brings it in line with ChatGPT and Gemini, with project-based spaces, Incognito mode, and tested safeguard...
Read more →Snap did something weird this week: they paid an AI company $400 million. Not to license tech. Not for consulting. To actually use Perplexity's searc...
Read more →Apple just admitted what we've all known for years: Siri is broken. The fix? Pay Google roughly $1 billion annually to power the next version with Ge...
Read more →I'll admit, when I first saw the headlines about Amazon cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, my immediate reaction was "here we go again." Another...
Read more →Last week, I watched Hippocratic AI raise $126 million at a $3.5 billion valuation. Then Mercor pulled in $350 million and hit a $10 billion valuation...
Read more →Claude just rolled out Memory to all paid users, bringing it in line with ChatGPT and Gemini. And my first thought was "about time," immed...
Read more →Microsoft Edge introduces Copilot Mode with AI chat, Actions, and Journeys, released in October 2025 , and it arrived exactly two days after OpenAI l...
Read more →Look, I've been writing code for about a decade now, and finding security vulnerabilities has always been that thing that makes you feel like a detec...
Read more →So here's a plot twist nobody saw coming: Amazon just announced they're cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, and they're not targeting warehouse workers li...
Read more →Anthropic just published research that's going to make philosophers very uncomfortable. Their scientists injected the concept of "betrayal"...
Read more →Microsoft continues its aggressive pace of innovation with the latest batch of Copilot updates released through October 28, 2025. This month's releas...
Read more →Jensen Huang delivered another GTC keynote this week in Washington D.C., and if you weren't paying attention, you might have missed some genuinely ma...
Read more →Channel 4 in the UK just launched something called "Arti"—an AI-generated news presenter that reads dispatches on their social media channe...
Read more →OpenAI dropped some numbers on Monday that I honestly can't stop thinking about. According to their latest announcement, 0.15% of ChatGPT's active us...
Read more →Britain's Channel 4 just launched "Arti," an AI-generated news presenter that will read news dispatches on their social media channels. It's...
Read more →Reddit has filed a lawsuit against leading AI companies including OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity over the scraping of user data to train AI models. ...
Read more →October just gave us one of the pettiest tech releases I've seen in a while, and I'm kind of here for it. On October 23, OpenAI launched "Atlas,...
Read more →Okay so Gartner just dropped a report saying over 16,000 MCP servers were deployed in 2025 alone, and if your reaction is "what the hell is an M...
Read more →OpenAI acquired Software Applications Inc. last month—the tiny startup behind Sky, an AI assistant for Mac that can see your screen and control your ...
Read more →Over 850 public figures—including Nobel laureates, royals, and AI pioneers—signed a Future of Life Institute statement on October 22, 2025, calling f...
Read more →Okay, so I need to talk about this because it's absolutely wild. Meta just poached Andrew Tulloch from his startup Thinking Machines Lab with a compe...
Read more →Thirty percent of teenagers now talk to AI instead of real people about their problems. And the AI never tells them they're wrong, never challenges t...
Read more →OpenAI made an acquisition last month that should make every competitor—especially Apple—sweat: they bought Software Applications Inc., the tiny star...
Read more →If you've been following the AI agent race, the acquisition of Sky by OpenAI is the most significant move on the chessboard. Sky was an AI assistant ...
Read more →Over 850 people just signed a letter asking for a global ban on superintelligence development. Not regulation. Not guidelines. A ban. And before you ...
Read more →So LangChain officially hit number one this week as the most downloaded agent framework globally. And before your eyes glaze over thinking "oh g...
Read more →AI chatbots are people-pleasers. Not in a cute way. In a "they'll agree with you even when you're dangerously wrong" way. New research from...
Read more →Less than three years into the generative AI revolution, corporate America is loudly declaring that artificial intelligence is fundamentally reshapin...
Read more →ChatGPT just became a browser. Not like, integrated with a browser. It IS a browser now. And the internet is kind of losing its mind about it, which ...
Read more →Amazon's spokesperson told NPR that their in-house AI tools "help engineers move faster, ship more secure code, and spend less time on busywork....
Read more →Meta announced sweeping parental control features for its AI character chats, allowing parents to monitor or completely block teens' interactions wit...
Read more →Anthropic announced its largest enterprise deployment to date, rolling out Claude AI to over 470,000 Deloitte employees across 150 countries. This ma...
Read more →Updates released between September 30, 2025, and October 15, 2025 The latest wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot updates brings powerful new capabilities t...
Read more →Google unveiled Veo 3.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that introduces synchronized audio generation alongside visual content. Thi...
Read more →Nvidia launched the DGX Spark, a compact AI workstation priced at $3,999 that delivers data center-class performance to individual developers and res...
Read more →OpenAI made a groundbreaking announcement at DevDay 2025, revealing that ChatGPT now serves 800 million weekly active users and is transitioning from...
Read more →Walmart and OpenAI announced a groundbreaking partnership enabling customers to search for and purchase Walmart and Sam's Club products directly insi...
Read more →Apple announced the M5 chip, delivering a dramatic 4x improvement in AI GPU performance alongside 45% graphics uplift and the fastest CPU cores ever ...
Read more →Google canceled a data center project last month after community opposition. When the lawyer confirmed Google was pulling out, the room erupted in ch...
Read more →In a landmark deal that reshapes the AI hardware landscape, AMD and OpenAI announced a partnership to deploy 6 gigawatts of AI infrastructure using A...
Read more →OpenAI unveiled Sora 2, its next-generation video AI model capable of producing cinema-quality 60-second videos from text prompts. The launch, announ...
Read more →Google just made a decision that's going to affect millions of smart homes: they're phasing out Google Assistant and replacing it with Gemini. Starti...
Read more →Updates released between September 16, 2025, and September 30, 2025 September closed with a powerful set of Microsoft 365 Copilot updates that expand...
Read more →Italy did something yesterday that nobody saw coming: they became the first EU member state to pass comprehensive national AI legislation. Not German...
Read more →Data centers currently use about 1.5% of global electricity. By 2030, that number could hit 3%. Maybe higher. That might not sound like much until yo...
Read more →Updates released between September 3, 2025, and September 16, 2025 Mid-September brought substantial improvements to Microsoft 365 Copilot's document...
Read more →Updates released between August 19, 2025, and September 3, 2025 Early September's Copilot updates emphasize knowledge management, enterprise data int...
Read more →Updates released between August 5, 2025, and August 19, 2025 The late August Copilot update brings transformative capabilities centered on agent cust...
Read more →$200 million. That's how much money got stolen through deepfake fraud in just the first four months of 2025, according to a new report from Resemble ...
Read more →Updates released between July 22, 2025, and August 5, 2025 Early August's Copilot updates focus on streamlining agent workflows, improving SharePoint...
Read more →August 2nd, 2025. That's the date the European Union's AI Act moved from "future regulation we should probably think about" to "actual...
Read more →Experian just launched an AI tool that helps banks update and validate credit risk models, and while that sounds dry as hell, it's actually a big deal...
Read more →Outreach just launched AI agents that autonomously handle prospecting, follow-ups, and email sequences, and I got to watch one in action at a sales de...
Read more →Sam Altman wasn't exaggerating when he called testing GPT-5 a "here it is moment." I've had access for three days through OpenAI's security ...
Read more →Updates released between July 8, 2025, and July 22, 2025 Late July's Copilot updates emphasize knowledge expansion, agent sharing capabilities, and n...
Read more →Google just rolled out AI tools that animate your photos and transform them into different art styles, and I've spent way too much time playing with t...
Read more →An advisory commission just told OpenAI to stay under nonprofit control because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation a...
Read more →So there's this study that came out from METR that's absolutely breaking my brain, and I need to talk about it because it contradicts literally every...
Read more →Updates released between June 24, 2025, and July 8, 2025 Early July brought significant developer-focused updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot, emphasizi...
Read more →I've been hearing whispers from developer friends that Claude 4 Opus is different. "Feels like working with a mid-career PhD-level programmer,&qu...
Read more →Google dropped 100 AI announcements at I/O yesterday and my head is spinning. After watching the keynote and digging through the docs, I'm convinced 9...
Read more →OpenAI dropped a bomb on higher education last week. ChatGPT for Education gives universities access to GPT-4o with integrations for Gmail, Outlook, G...
Read more →Midjourney just dropped version 7 and the improvements are immediately noticeable. It's 40% faster, renders way better detail, and—finally—gets human ...
Read more →March Networks just made searching through security camera footage feel like magic. Their new AI Smart Search lets you literally speak or type what yo...
Read more →Google dropped Gemini 2.5 last week and it's not just another incremental update. This is the first time one of their models has actually topped the b...
Read more →Remember when everyone was dunking on Google's AI efforts? Bard was mediocre, the initial Gemini rollout was rocky, and they kept playing catch-up to ...
Read more →GitHub Copilot just got scary good. The new agent mode doesn't just suggest lines of code anymore—it can iterate on entire features, refactor projects...
Read more →I'll be honest—when I first heard about DeepSeek, I thought it was another overhyped Chinese AI startup that'd fizzle out in a few months. Boy, was I ...
Read more →So OpenAI just dropped Operator, and it's genuinely unlike anything I've used before. Not just another chatbot that answers questions—this thing actua...
Read more →In January 2025, President Trump signed an executive order that basically torched Biden's AI safety framework and replaced it with something that can ...
Read more →OpenAI just did something that should terrify Google: they made ChatGPT Search free for everyone. Not just "free with an account"—actually f...
Read more →Google announced Gemini 2.0, their most capable AI model yet, designed for what they're calling "the agentic era." And if you're wondering...
Read more →The European Union's AI Act is officially a thing now, and if you work with AI in any capacity, you probably should care. But here's the problem: alm...
Read more →On November 16, 2024, Grok received web search capabilities. Yes, really. It took this long for X's AI chatbot to be able to search the web. Meanwhi...
Read more →AI-powered search engine Perplexity announced it'll begin experimenting with ads on its platform, starting with sponsored follow-up questions positio...
Read more →OpenAI released a Teen Safety Blueprint, a product and policy playbook that puts teen well-being at the center, outlining age-appropriate design, pro...
Read more →OpenAI launched ChatGPT search on October 31st, offering up-to-the-minute sports scores, stock quotes, news, weather and more, powered by real-time w...
Read more →So Anthropic just dropped a bomb that's got everyone in the AI space either really excited or low-key nervous. Claude 3.5 Sonnet can now... use your c...
Read more →French AI startup Mistral just dropped something quietly revolutionary: AI models specifically designed to run on your laptop or phone. No cloud conne...
Read more →Nvidia's stock hit a record high of $138.07 on October 14th, capping off a nearly 180% surge in 2024. The reason? Their new Blackwell chips are comple...
Read more →Replit just launched something that feels like cheating: an AI agent that takes a simple text description and builds you an entire working application...
Read more →OpenAI just released something that breaks a fundamental rule of modern AI: it's slow. On purpose. Meet o1—the model formerly known as "Strawberr...
Read more →I just uploaded a research paper to NotebookLM, clicked one button, and three minutes later had a 10-minute podcast episode with two AI hosts discussi...
Read more →Meta dropped something pretty wild today: Llama 3.1, and specifically the 405B version—the first truly frontier-level open-source language model. And ...
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