DeepSeek's valuation more than doubles to $45 billion as the Chinese AI lab enters talks for its first-ever VC round, led by a Chinese state fund with Tencent and Alibaba also in discussions, signaling China's aggressive push to build homegrown AI rivaling the U.S.
AI's explosive growth faces a critical hardware bottleneck lasting years, even as Apple shatters its AI exclusivity by letting 1.2 billion iPhone users choose rival models like Gemini and Claude, DeepSeek rockets to a $45 billion valuation, and AI pioneer Yann LeCun launches a $1 billion bet against large language …
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX, dissolving it as an independent company and creating a new internal division called SpaceXAI to oversee X and Grok, deeply integrating AI across SpaceX's operations and connecting it to the company's $119 billion TERAFAB semiconductor fab and upcoming Starship V3.
Anthropic launches Agent View in Claude Code, giving developers a powerful unified CLI interface to manage multiple AI sessions simultaneously, run parallel agents in the background, and reply inline — available now as a Research Preview for Pro, Max, Team, Enterprise, and API users via 'claude agents' in the terminal.
Anthropic's Claude Platform is now live on AWS, offering full API feature parity, native IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and unified billing, giving developers powerful AI tools while a separate Amazon Bedrock option keeps data within AWS infrastructure for stricter compliance needs.
A new open-source AI voice translator called PuriPuly is revolutionizing real-time two-way communication in VRChat, supporting slang, context memory, and VR subtitles at near-zero cost with free credits for new users.
A new AI framework called AutoTTS automatically discovers test-time scaling strategies for large language models, cutting token usage by nearly 70% while maintaining accuracy — and the entire discovery process costs under $40 and takes less than three hours.
Over 21,000 jobs were cut in April with AI cited as the cause for the second straight month, yet the White House denies any evidence of AI-driven job losses, while experts warn companies may be using AI as a cover story for pandemic-era overhiring mistakes — a deceptive trend dubbed …
The White House insists AI is not eliminating jobs, even as Amazon, Meta, Oracle, and other tech giants lay off thousands of workers while explicitly citing AI-driven efficiency as the reason for leaner workforces.
Apple is set to unveil a massive Siri overhaul at WWDC on June 8, powered by Google Gemini, transforming Siri into a ChatGPT rival while targeting the 84% of the global population not yet using AI.