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.
AI Policy Texas AG Investigates AI and Tech Platforms Over Child Privacy Concerns By Chris McKay • Dec 13, 2024
Open Source Harvard Releases Massive Public-Domain Dataset for AI Training By Chris McKay • Dec 12, 2024
Meta Open Source Meta Releases Video Seal, an Open Source Watermarking Tool for AI Video By Chris McKay • Dec 12, 2024
Venture Capital Startups AI Voice Startup Vapi Raises $20M to Build Enterprise Infrastructure for Voice Agents By Chris McKay • Dec 12, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Robotics Swiss Robot Maker ANYbotics Secures Additional $60M in Series B Extension By Chris McKay • Dec 12, 2024
Venture Capital Startups NeuBird Raises $22.5M to Scale AI-Powered IT Operations Assistant By Chris McKay • Dec 11, 2024
Google Gemini Google Debuts Deep Research, Merging Search Expertise with Agentic AI By Chris McKay • Dec 11, 2024
Google Gemini Unlocking Agentic Experiences: Google’s Vision for Gemini 2.0 By Chris McKay • Dec 11, 2024
Google Gemini Google Unveils Gemini 2.0 Flash with Major Speed and Performance Upgrades By Chris McKay • Dec 11, 2024
Google AI Infrastructure Google Unveils 'Power First' Strategy to Fuel AI Growth, Partners with Intersect Power in $20B Renewable Push By Chris McKay • Dec 10, 2024
OpenAI OpenAI Expands Canvas Access, Adds Python Code Execution and Custom GPT Integration By Chris McKay • Dec 10, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Biotech & Health Aqemia Raises $38 Million to Propel Quantum-Powered AI Drug Discovery By Chris McKay • Dec 10, 2024
Venture Capital Startups AI Language Tutor Speak Hits Unicorn Status with $78M Series C By Chris McKay • Dec 10, 2024
Google Quantum Computing Google’s New Quantum Chip “Willow” Surpasses a Crucial Error-Correction Milestone By Chris McKay • Dec 9, 2024
OpenAI Sora Six Top Features of Sora, OpenAI’s New AI Video Creation Platform By Chris McKay • Dec 9, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Ex-OpenAI Researcher Launches WaveForms AI with $40M Seed Funding from a16z By Chris McKay • Dec 9, 2024
