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 Military & Defense Google Shifts AI Policy, Removes Weapons and Surveillance Restrictions By Chris McKay • Feb 4, 2025
Figure OpenAI Figure AI Ends OpenAI Partnership to Focus on In-House Robot Intelligence By Chris McKay • Feb 4, 2025
Google Startups Google X Spins Off Heritable Agriculture to Transform Crop Development Using AI By Chris McKay • Feb 3, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Tana Raises $14M to Transform Knowledge Work with AI-Native Workspace By Chris McKay • Feb 3, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI Unveils Deep Research, an AI Agent That Conducts Multi-Step Research Tasks By Chris McKay • Feb 2, 2025
OpenAI Key Takeaways from OpenAI’s Reddit AMA: Open Source Plans, DeepSeek Competition, and Future AI Models By Chris McKay • Jan 31, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI Releases o3-Mini, Bringing Smarter, Faster, and Cheaper Reasoning AI to Free Users By Chris McKay • Jan 31, 2025
AI Policy U.S. Copyright Office Sets Clear Boundaries on AI Copyrightability By Chris McKay • Jan 30, 2025
ElevenLabs Venture Capital Startups ElevenLabs Raises $180M Series C, Triples Valuation to $3.3B By Chris McKay • Jan 30, 2025
OpenAI SoftBank Venture Capital Startups OpenAI in Talks to Raise $40 Billion at $300B Valuation By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025
AI Policy Anthropic Anthropic’s CEO Defends U.S. Export Controls, Calls DeepSeek’s Advances “Expected” By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Cybersecurity AI Security Startup Conifers.ai Secures $25M to Enhance SOC Operations with AI By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Clutch Security Raises $20M Series A to Tackle Machine Identity Protection By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025
OpenAI Microsoft OpenAI and Microsoft Signal Ambitious Next Phase in AI Partnership By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025
Alibaba Alibaba Announces Qwen2.5-Max, Claims it's Better than DeepSeek By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025
1X Robotics 1X Acquires Kind Humanoid, Strengthening its Position in Home Robotics By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025
