Elite researchers from Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta launch Trajectory, a bold new AI startup designed to help companies build self-improving AI products by training models on real-world user interactions.
Pony AI surges 145% in Q1 revenue to $34.3 million, crushing analyst estimates, while raising its 2026 robotaxi fleet target to 3,500 vehicles — even as operating losses widen to $58.3 million.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang pushes back hard on fears that AI is killing jobs, calling the narrative 'lazy' and 'irresponsible,' and predicts the workforce will actually grow in five years as AI-driven productivity fuels company expansion — but warns workers who refuse to learn AI risk being left behind by those who do.
DeepSeek slashes V4 Pro prices by 75% to $0.87 per million output tokens, dramatically undercutting rivals like GPT-5 and Claude Opus 4.7, igniting an AI price war while geopolitical tensions and accusations of unauthorized training data theft from Anthropic continue to cloud the Chinese AI company's rapid market expansion.
Microsoft's consumer chief Yusuf Mehdi, the executive behind Windows 95, Xbox One, and Copilot, announces his departure after 35 years, planning to exit following fiscal year 2027 while spending his final season advancing Windows AI strategy and scaling Microsoft 365 to 100 million subscribers.
Google is betting up to $180 billion on AI integration across Search and YouTube, deploying fast, affordable models at massive scale, but risks cannibalizing the very ad revenue that funds its ambitious AI transformation.
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.