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.
Venture Capital Startups Endor Labs Raises $93M Series B to Safeguard AI-Generated Code By Chris McKay • Apr 23, 2025
OpenAI Google OpenAI Would Buy Chrome 'In a Heartbeat' if Google Forced to Sell By Chris McKay • Apr 22, 2025
Google Op-ed Google's Search Evolution: Why AI Challengers Have Yet to Dethrone the King By Chris McKay • Apr 22, 2025
OpenAI Media & Entertainment The Washington Post Joins OpenAI’s Expanding Roster of Media Partners By Chris McKay • Apr 22, 2025
Apple Apple Pulls “Available Now” Claim from AI Ads After Watchdog Probe By Chris McKay • Apr 22, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI Introduces 'Flex Processing': Lower Prices for Non-Urgent AI Workloads By Chris McKay • Apr 17, 2025
Grok xAI xAI Upgrades Grok with Personalized Memory and Custom Workspaces By Chris McKay • Apr 17, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Former YC President, Geoff Ralston, Launches Fund for "Safe AI" Startups By Chris McKay • Apr 17, 2025
Google Gemini Gemini Advanced is Free for College Students Until Spring 2026 By Chris McKay • Apr 17, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Video AI Capsule Secures $12M to Scale AI-Powered Video Editing for Enterprise Teams By Chris McKay • Apr 16, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI Launches o3 and o4-mini, their Smartest and Most Capable Models to Date By Chris McKay • Apr 16, 2025
Grok xAI xAI Launches Grok Studio, a Collaborative Workspace for Docs and Code By Chris McKay • Apr 16, 2025
OpenAI Startups OpenAI Acqui-hires Context.ai Team to Boost Model Evaluation Efforts By Chris McKay • Apr 15, 2025
Anthropic Enterprise AI Anthropic Launches Research Beta and Google Workspace Access for Claude By Chris McKay • Apr 15, 2025
Synthesia Video AI Startups Adobe Invests in Synthesia as the AI Video Startup Hits $100M Revenue Milestone By Chris McKay • Apr 15, 2025
Apple Unveils Clever Workaround to Improve AI Without Collecting Your Data By Chris McKay • Apr 15, 2025
Robotics Hugging Face Hugging Face Steps Into Hardware With Pollen Robotics Acquisition By Chris McKay • Apr 14, 2025
