OpenAI OpenAI Raises $8.3B Toward Its $40B Fundraise By Chris McKay • Aug 1, 2025 OpenAI has closed $8.3 billion in new funding—part of its ongoing $40 billion round—pushing its valuation to $300 billion and paving the way for massive AI infrastructure expansion.
OpenAI Education OpenAI Launches Study Mode for ChatGPT By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 OpenAI has added a Study Mode to ChatGPT that guides students through problems with interactive prompts and quizzes rather than serving up instant solutions.
Google NotebookLM can Now Turn Your Notes into Narrated Videos By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 Google's NotebookLM adds Video Overviews with narrated slides and an upgraded Studio panel that lets users create multiple outputs per notebook, building on the research tool's viral success with AI-generated podcasts.
Google Google's AI Mode gets a Canvas for Persistent Planning By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 Canvas slots into Google Search’s AI Mode as a persistent side panel where you can build, tweak, and pick up plans—study guides, trips, projects—whenever inspiration (or panic) strikes.
Microsoft Microsoft is Slowly Turning Edge into an AI Agent By Chris McKay • Jul 28, 2025 Microsoft's new Copilot Mode transforms Edge into an "agentic" browser that can see across all your open tabs, handle voice commands, and eventually book reservations and manage tasks for you.
Open Source SambaNova and CrewAI Launch Open-Source Deep Research Framework for Faster, Cheaper AI-Powered Insights By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025
Google Gemini Gmail’s New AI-Powered ‘Add to Calendar’ Button Saves You Time By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025
Palantir Military & Defense Palantir Delivers First AI-Powered TITAN Systems to U.S. Army By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Google Gemini Enterprise AI Google Adds Gemini AI Assistant to Calendar for Workspace Users By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Google Gemini Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Manus China Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Mistral Mistral Unveils New OCR API With Advanced Document Understanding Capabilities By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025
Alibaba China Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025
OpenAI ChatGPT GPT-4.5 Arrives for ChatGPT Plus Subscribers—Here’s What to Expect By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
AI Policy Geopolitics Mutual Assured AI Malfunction: A New Cold War Strategy for AI Superpowers By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Google Google Introduces “AI Mode” in Search, Expanding AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0 By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Amazon Media & Entertainment Amazon’s Prime Video Begins AI Dubbing Pilot for Select Movies and Shows By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Accelerate AI Model Training By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Microsoft OpenAI UK UK Competition Watchdog Clears Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Google Ecommerce Google Shopping Adds AI-Powered Fashion Search and Virtual Try-On By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Arm Chips AI Infrastructure Malaysia Strikes $250M Deal with Arm to Jumpstart AI Chip Industry By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Startups CoreWeave Acquires Weights & Biases in a $1.7 Billion AI Cloud Play By Chris McKay • Mar 4, 2025
Microsoft Healthcare Microsoft Unveils Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Clinicians By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025
Telecom Perplexity T-Mobile Bets on AI with New Smartphone, Powered by Perplexity By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025
