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.
NVIDIA NVIDIA Unveils DGX Spark and DGX Station: Desktop AI Supercomputers for the Developer Masses By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
Google Gemini Gemini App Gets a Major Upgrade: Canvas Mode, Audio Overviews, and More By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
NVIDIA Robotics NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, and Disney Research Team Up for Open-Source Physics Engine By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
NVIDIA Robotics NVIDIA Unveils Isaac GR00T N1: An Open Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
NVIDIA Auto NVIDIA’s Expanding Automotive AI Empire: GM Adopts Omniverse & Cosmos for AI Factories By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
NVIDIA Auto NVIDIA Unveils Halos: A Comprehensive Safety System for Autonomous Vehicles By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
Google Healthcare At The Check Up, Google Showcases AI’s Role in Drug Discovery and Health Data By Chris McKay • Mar 18, 2025
AI Infrastructure Crusoe Secures 4.5GW of Natural Gas to Power AI Data Centers By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
Video AI Startups xAI Buys Hotshot, a Startup Working on AI-Generated Video By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
Palantir AI Policy Palantir Urges U.S. to Prioritize National Security and AI Adoption in Federal Policy By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI’s Post-Training Head Liam Fedus Departs to Launch AI-Powered Materials Science Startup By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
Media & Entertainment Roblox Open-Sources Cube 3D, Its AI Model for Generating 3D Objects By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
Mistral Open Source Mistral Small 3.1 Outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini By Chris McKay • Mar 17, 2025
Google Google to Replace Google Assistant with Gemini on Android Phones By Chris McKay • Mar 14, 2025
SoftBank Japan SoftBank Converts Old Sharp Factory into AI Hub in $676M Deal By Chris McKay • Mar 14, 2025
Google AI Policy Google Pushes for Pro-Innovation AI Policy in Response to Trump Administration's Action Plan By Chris McKay • Mar 13, 2025
OpenAI AI Policy OpenAI Pushes for ‘Freedom to Innovate’ in U.S. AI Action Plan By Chris McKay • Mar 13, 2025
