OpenAI begins displaying targeted ads to ChatGPT free users across the US as the company scrambles to offset massive projected losses of $14 billion by 2026, launching just one day after rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial slammed the advertising approach.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.
Elon Musk's xAI opens a massive 25,000-square-foot engineering hub in downtown Bellevue just minutes from OpenAI's offices, creating an AI battleground as the company recruits engineers with salaries up to $440,000 for core AI research and development roles.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reveal a staggering $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog as AI demand explodes, forcing Big Tech giants to tap bond markets for billions while creating massive opportunities for smaller competitors.
Google launches revolutionary Interactions API that replaces traditional AI prompts with stateful session management, enabling developers to build persistent AI applications with background processing capabilities and explicit context tracking that survives across sessions while reducing costs.
OpenAI abandons 'io' branding for its upcoming AI hardware devices amid trademark dispute, with the affected product not expected to ship until 2027 according to Monday court filings.
AI stocks crash despite companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and chip manufacturers posting record double-digit growth and Amazon announcing $200 billion infrastructure investment, prompting analysts to declare the selloff a rare once-in-a-decade buying opportunity as the transformative technology remains in early development stages.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI model that simultaneously processes 12 different files to generate videos with automatic sound effects and can mimic camera movements from reference footage, triggering a 20% stock surge as the AI video generation battle intensifies.
US Army awards contract to Swarmbotics AI for developing swarming unmanned ground vehicles that operate in coordinated groups to overwhelm enemies with multiple simultaneous threats, offering cost-effective force multiplication for the 1st Cavalry Division starting January 2026.
Goldman Sachs partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI agents for automating accounting, trading reconciliation, and client onboarding, with embedded engineers building autonomous systems that executives expect will accelerate processes and limit future hiring rather than trigger immediate layoffs.