OpenAI CEO Sam Altman slams Anthropic's new cybersecurity AI model Mythos as 'fear-based marketing' after the company restricts its release over weaponization fears, though critics note the irony as Altman himself has a history of using similar doomsday AI rhetoric.
OpenAI launches cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT at $3–$5 per click, directly challenging Google's search ad dominance while racing to build advertiser measurement infrastructure faster than Uber and Netflix did at comparable stages.
SpaceX signs a landmark $60 billion deal with AI coding tool Cursor, granting access to its 'Colossus' supercomputer and xAI's frontier models as the two companies race to dominate the coding agent space against OpenAI and Anthropic.
Apple is making a major leadership shift as Tim Cook transitions to Executive Chairman and hardware engineering chief John Ternus takes over as CEO, effective September 1, 2026, marking the end of a transformative era and the beginning of a new chapter led by a 25-year Apple veteran.
Tech giants Amazon, Google, and Microsoft shed a combined $900 billion in market value as investors revolt against $660 billion in projected AI spending with little return, while Apple surges 7% by taking a lean, asset-light AI approach that keeps its 2026 capital expenditure at just $14 billion, signaling a …
China's streaming giant iQiyi predicts AI will produce most of its content within five years, launching the Nadou Pro suite — a powerful AI filmmaking toolkit covering everything from scriptwriting to final rendering — as the company undergoes its biggest transformation since its 2010 founding.
Palantir releases a bold 22-point manifesto defending AI weapons development and Western military dominance, arguing Silicon Valley has a moral obligation to the nation that enabled its success, while critics warn the document represents the dangerous public ideology of a company that directly profits from the very defense and immigration …
Sequoia Capital raises a massive $7 billion AI-focused fund — nearly double its last comparable raise — doubling down on late-stage bets including OpenAI and Anthropic, both eyeing public listings in 2026, in the firm's first major fundraise under new co-leaders Alfred Lin and Pat Grady.
OpenAI doubles its deal with AI chipmaker Cerebras to over $20 billion, takes a potential 10% minority stake, and invests $1 billion in data center development, as Cerebras eyes a $35 billion IPO in Q2 2025.
OpenAI supercharges its Codex coding assistant with 111 new plugins, parallel AI agents, GitHub integration, built-in browser, and autonomous task scheduling, directly challenging Anthropic's Claude as both companies race to dominate the booming developer AI tools market.