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OpenAI, a company alreadyvalued at $500 billion, has made it known that it’s on the hunt foranother $100 billionin investment. Such a funding round could lead the company’s valuation to shoot up to a titanic $830 billion. The Wall Street Journal is nowreportingthat Amazon may contribute at least $50 billion of that record-breaking investment. Not […]

Microsoft delivered a solid earnings report on Wednesday with $81.3 billion in revenue for the quarter (up 17%), net income profits of $38.3 billion (up 21%) and a record breaking Microsoft cloud revenue of over $50 billion.  But the stock was getting pounded on Thursday as investors worried about how much the tech giant was

SpaceX and xAI, both companies led by Elon Musk, could merge ahead of a planned SpaceX IPO this year, according to areportfrom Reuters. This would bring products like the Grok chatbot, X platform, Starlink satellites, and SpaceX rockets together under one corporation. Company representatives have not discussed this possibility in public. However, recent filings show

Apple, Meta, and Google are locked in a fierce battle to lead the next wave of AI, and they’ve recently increased their focus on hardware. With its latest acquisition of the AI startup Q.ai, Apple aims to gain an edge, particularly in the audio sector. ​As first reported byReuters, Apple has acquired Q.ai, an Israeli

Google DeepMind is opening up access to Project Genie, its AI tool for creating interactive game worlds from text prompts or images.  Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with the experimental research prototype, which is powered by a combination of Google’s latest world modelGenie 3, its image generation model

After rapidlyhitting the top of the App Storein October, OpenAI’svideo-generation app Sorais now struggling. New data suggests the app is seeing declines in both app downloads and consumer spending, as the early hype about the AI video social network wears off. However, in the weeks since Sora’s mobile debut, the app has begun to lose

A cohort of music publishers led by Concord Music Group and Universal Music Group are suing Anthropic, saying the company illegally downloaded more than 20,000 copyrighted songs, including sheet music, song lyrics, and musical compositions. The publisherssaid in a statementon Wednesday that the damages could amount to more than $3 billion, which would be one

As AI races into classrooms worldwide, Google is finding that the toughest lessons on how the tech can actually scale are emerging not from Silicon Valley, but from India’s schools. India has become a proving ground for Google’s education AI amid intensifying competition from rivals, including OpenAI and Microsoft. Withmore than a billion internet users,

A new AI lab calledFlapping Airplaneslaunched on Wednesday, with $180 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index. The founding team is impressive, and the goal — finding a less data-hungry way to train large models — is a particularly interesting one. Based on what I’ve seen so far, I would rate them

Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps users can now access Gemini hands-free while walking and cycling. The update comes a few months after Google Maps rolled out its Gemini-poweredhands-free, conversational driving experience. The announcement marks Google’s ongoing efforts toplug Gemini into moreparts of people’s everyday lives, while shifting Google Maps from static directions to