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 Robotics Google DeepMind Partners with Apptronik to Advance Humanoid Robotics Ambitions By Chris McKay • Dec 19, 2024
Perplexity Venture Capital Startups Perplexity Raises $500M at $9B Valuation By Chris McKay • Dec 18, 2024
OpenAI 1-800-ChatGPT: You Can Now Call ChatGPT or Message it on WhatsApp By Chris McKay • Dec 18, 2024
Perplexity Startups Perplexity Acquires Carbon to Enhance AI Data Connectivity By Chris McKay • Dec 18, 2024
Healthcare Startups Suki Expands AI Assistant Capabilities with Google Cloud Integration By Chris McKay • Dec 18, 2024
China Venture Capital Startups Chinese AI Firm Zhipu AI Secures $412M as Competition Intensifies By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Basis Secures $34M to Deploy AI Agents for Accounting Firms By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
NVIDIA NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Orin Nano Super: A $249 Compact Generative AI Computer By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
Enterprise AI Writer Launches Palmyra Creative to Make AI Generated Content More Original By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
Waymo Auto Waymo Sets Course for Tokyo in 2025, Marking First International Expansion By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
UAE Open Source UAE's TII Launches Falcon 3: High-Performance Small AI Models By Chris McKay • Dec 17, 2024
Google Meet Whisk, Google's New Visual-First Approach to AI Image Generation By Chris McKay • Dec 16, 2024
Google Veo Google Unviels Veo 2, its New State-of-the-Art Video Generation Model By Chris McKay • Dec 16, 2024
