Chris McKay

Chris McKay is the founder and chief editor of Maginative. His thought leadership in AI literacy and strategic AI adoption has been recognized by top academic institutions, media, and global brands.

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Startups

Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google's Talent Raid Left it Gutted

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

Amazon

Amazon takes on GitHub Copilot with Kiro, an IDE that Goes Beyond "Vibe Coding"

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

Military & Defense

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI just scored the DoD’s Biggest AI Deal Yet

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

xAI Tesla

Musk Says No to Tesla–xAI Merger, But Pushes for Shareholder Vote on Investment

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

xAI Military & Defense Grok

xAI Launches Grok for Government, Announces DoD Contract

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

xAI Grok

Elon Musk's xAI Apologizes for Grok's Antisemitic Rants that Praised Hitler

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

Meta Acquires PlayAI in Latest AI Talent Grab

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

xAI

SpaceX Invests $2 billion in xAI as Musk Builds AI Empire

By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025

Google

OpenAI's Windsurf Deal is Dead — Google just Poached the CEO Instead

By Chris McKay • Jul 11, 2025

OpenAI

Inside OpenAI's Security Lockdown: Fingerprint Scanners and Offline Computers

By Chris McKay • Jul 8, 2025

Microsoft Healthcare Research

Microsoft's MAI-DxO Crushes Doctors at Medical Diagnosis while Cutting Costs

By Chris McKay • Jun 30, 2025

Apple

Apple Considers Powering Siri with AI from OpenAI or Anthropic

By Chris McKay • Jun 30, 2025

Meta Goes All-In on ‘Superintelligence’ with Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang at the Helm

By Chris McKay • Jun 30, 2025

Google Biotech & Health Research

DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome to Better Understand Gene Regulation

By Chris McKay • Jun 26, 2025

Court Sides with Meta: Training AI on Books Ruled Legal Under Fair Use

By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025

Creative Commons Unveils Framework to Signal AI Use Permissions

By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025

Google Gemini

Google Launches Gemini CLI, an open source AI Agent in your terminal

By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025

Enterprise AI

Airtable Bets Big on AI Agents with Omni, Reboots as an ‘AI-Native’ App Platform

By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025

Healthcare Venture Capital Startups

Abridge Raises $300M Series E at $5.3B Valuation

By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Startups Research

Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Apptronik Robotics

Apptronik Spins off Elevate Robotics to Build "Superhuman" Industrial Robots

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Google Robotics

Google Announces On-Device Gemini Robotics Model

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Anthropic

Federal Judge Says AI Training on Copyrighted Books Is Fair Use

By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025

Thinking Machines Startups Venture Capital

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises $2B for Thinking Machines at $10B valuation

By Chris McKay • Jun 20, 2025

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Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google's Talent Raid Left it Gutted

Amazon takes on GitHub Copilot with Kiro, an IDE that Goes Beyond "Vibe Coding"

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI just scored the DoD’s Biggest AI Deal Yet

Musk Says No to Tesla–xAI Merger, But Pushes for Shareholder Vote on Investment

xAI Launches Grok for Government, Announces DoD Contract

Elon Musk's xAI Apologizes for Grok's Antisemitic Rants that Praised Hitler

Meta Acquires PlayAI in Latest AI Talent Grab

SpaceX Invests $2 billion in xAI as Musk Builds AI Empire

OpenAI's Windsurf Deal is Dead — Google just Poached the CEO Instead

Inside OpenAI's Security Lockdown: Fingerprint Scanners and Offline Computers

Microsoft's MAI-DxO Crushes Doctors at Medical Diagnosis while Cutting Costs

Apple Considers Powering Siri with AI from OpenAI or Anthropic

Meta Goes All-In on ‘Superintelligence’ with Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang at the Helm

DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome to Better Understand Gene Regulation

Court Sides with Meta: Training AI on Books Ruled Legal Under Fair Use

Creative Commons Unveils Framework to Signal AI Use Permissions

Google Launches Gemini CLI, an open source AI Agent in your terminal

Airtable Bets Big on AI Agents with Omni, Reboots as an ‘AI-Native’ App Platform

Abridge Raises $300M Series E at $5.3B Valuation

Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation

Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million

Apptronik Spins off Elevate Robotics to Build "Superhuman" Industrial Robots

Google Announces On-Device Gemini Robotics Model

Federal Judge Says AI Training on Copyrighted Books Is Fair Use

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Raises $2B for Thinking Machines at $10B valuation