Amazon's Zoox is expanding its robotaxi service to Austin and Miami, scaling its fleet to 100 vehicles, pursuing NHTSA approval for 2,500 self-driving cars, and partnering with Uber to offer commercial rides in Las Vegas this summer.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app just months after launch as Disney pulls a $1 billion investment deal, handing Google a major advantage in the rapidly evolving AI video generation market.
Arm breaks decades of tradition by launching its first self-produced CPU, the Arm AGI CPU, with Meta as lead partner, boasting 136 cores and double the performance per watt of x86 chips, set for deployment in AI data centers later this year.
OpenAI is warning prospective IPO investors of major risks, including heavy Microsoft dependency, $665 billion in compute costs through 2030, and mounting legal battles — even as the company boasts a $730 billion valuation and $13.1 billion in 2025 revenue.
OpenAI is in advanced talks to buy up to 50 gigawatts of fusion energy from startup Helion by 2035, a landmark deal that could reshape AI's power future — though key milestones, including a production site, remain unresolved.
OpenAI is in talks to buy fusion energy from startup Helion, targeting 5 gigawatts by 2030 and 50 gigawatts by 2035, as skyrocketing AI energy demands push the US toward a 13-gigawatt power shortfall by 2028.
AI startups are dominating venture capital, capturing 41% of $128 billion raised on Carta last year, with just 10% of companies securing half of all funding as giants like OpenAI and Anthropic raise tens of billions in a increasingly K-shaped market.
OpenAI is racing to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by 2026, aggressively expanding across engineering, research, and sales as rival Anthropic gains ground, with businesses now 70% more likely to choose Anthropic for first-time AI purchases.
OpenAI is scaling back its data center ownership ambitions ahead of a potential IPO, shifting to cloud partners like Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon while slashing compute spending targets from $1.4 trillion to $600 billion by 2030, as a $100 billion Nvidia investment deal appears to collapse.
Cursor faces backlash after launching Composer 2 as a 'frontier' coding model without disclosing it's built on Kimi 2.5, a Chinese open-source AI, with co-founder Aman Sanger now admitting the lack of transparency was a mistake amid growing U.S.-China AI tensions.