Anthropic is in active talks to adopt Microsoft's custom Maia 200 AI chip as the company faces a surging compute crisis driven by explosive demand for its Claude products, while simultaneously diversifying chip partnerships across Amazon, Google, and SpaceX in a deal worth $1.25 billion per month through 2029.
OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward IPOs as both AI giants report explosive revenue growth, with OpenAI filing as soon as this week at an $850 billion valuation while Anthropic surges ahead with a projected $950 billion valuation and $10.9 billion in Q2 revenue.
Manus co-founders are racing to raise $1 billion to buy back their AI startup from Meta Platforms after Beijing ordered the $2 billion acquisition unwound, with plans to restructure the company as a Chinese joint venture and pursue a Hong Kong IPO.
OpenAI pushes toward a September IPO backed by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, just as Elon Musk loses his lawsuit against the company and prepares SpaceX's own IPO filing, setting up a high-stakes financial rivalry between two of tech's biggest names.
Chinese AI models are seizing over 60% market share on developer platforms, with costs up to nine times cheaper than American rivals like Anthropic, threatening the massive $800 billion-plus valuations OpenAI and Anthropic are counting on ahead of their upcoming IPOs.
Jeff Bezos calls space-based data centers 'very realistic' but pushes back on Elon Musk's aggressive 2-3 year timeline, as Blue Origin targets a 2027 launch for 'Project Sunrise,' a bold plan to deploy 51,600 data center satellites into low Earth orbit, while space stocks surge amid SpaceX's anticipated IPO at …
OpenAI launches a 'Guaranteed Capacity' program letting customers lock in one-to-three-year AI compute commitments at increasing discounts, with CEO Sam Altman calling it a 'big win-win' as the company targets $600 billion in total compute spend by 2030 and eyes a potential IPO.
Slack releases a new playbook identifying five key AI friction points and a three-layer architecture to break down organizational silos, helping teams connect fragmented AI agents and enable unified business intelligence across their workflows.
OpenAI partners with Google DeepMind to embed invisible SynthID watermarks into AI-generated images while launching a public verification tool that lets users detect whether an image was AI-generated, creating a multi-layered content authenticity system.
A California jury unanimously dismisses Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI's Sam Altman in under two hours, ruling the case was filed too late under the statute of limitations, as Musk's attorney vows to appeal and OpenAI calls the suit a hypocritical attempt to sabotage a competitor.