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.
Google Gemini Google’s Gemini Code Assist Is Now Free—With the Most Generous Usage Limits Yet By Chris McKay • Feb 25, 2025
Apple AI Infrastructure Apple to Invest $500 Billion in the U.S., Create 20,000 AI and R&D Jobs By Chris McKay • Feb 24, 2025
OpenAI Research Education AI Literacy AI in Higher Ed: 7 Major Takeaways from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Student Usage Report By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Together AI Raises $305M to Expand Its AI Acceleration Cloud By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Figure Robotics Meet Helix: The AI Behind Figure’s Humanoid Robots That Reason Like Humans By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI’s Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing, Now Serving 400 Million Users By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Healthcare OpenEvidence Raises $75M to Scale AI for Doctors, Hits $1B Valuation By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Microsoft Media & Entertainment Research Microsoft’s Muse AI Model Can Generate Video Game Environments in Real-Time By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Google Research Google Unveils AI Co-Scientist to Accelerate Scientific Discovery By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
NVIDIA Research Biotech & Health NVIDIA and Arc Institute Introduce Evo 2, A State of the Art Foundation Model for Biology By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Microsoft Quantum Computing Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1: A Breakthrough Chip in Quantum Computing By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Startups Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab with AI Veterans By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
OpenAI Research OpenAI's New Benchmark Tests AI Models Against Real-World Software Engineering Tasks By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
xAI Grok Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok 3, Claims State-of-the-Art Performance By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
UK Anthropic UK Rebrands AI Safety Institute to Focus on National Security Risks By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
