President Trump is floating a plan for the U.S. government to take a small ownership stake in major AI companies, framing it as a 'partnership with the American public' that could make Americans 'rich' while boosting AI's popularity and maintaining America's competitive edge over China.
Generalist AI secures $400 million in new funding, pushing total capital raised past $500 million, as its robots achieve 99% reliability and speeds three times faster than previous benchmarks, signaling a major leap toward commercially viable physical AI.
Poke, an AI agent startup valued at $300 million, makes history as the first AI agent approved to run on Apple's iMessage platform, bringing everyday AI assistance for tasks like calendar management and smart home control directly to iPhone users via text message.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
Anthropic warns that AI recursive self-improvement could outpace human readiness while simultaneously raising $65 billion and filing for an IPO, exposing a stark contradiction between its safety concerns and aggressive financial expansion — all while Claude already writes over 80% of the company's own code.
The U.S. and Japan launch a historic $1 billion, five-year science partnership uniting 24 top research institutions to drive breakthroughs in quantum science, fusion energy, AI, biotechnology, and particle physics, marking Japan as the first international partner in President Trump's Genesis Mission.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is raising $7.4 billion in its first-ever funding round, valuing the company at up to $59 billion, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally committing $3 billion and Tencent eyeing a major stake, as China accelerates its push for AI dominance following DeepSeek's models shaking confidence in U.S. …
AI music startup Suno secures a massive $400M Series D at a $5.4B valuation — more than doubling in worth in just seven months — even as copyright lawsuits from Universal Music Group, Sony, and GEMA allege unauthorized use of over 61,000 songs.
Anthropic files pre-IPO paperwork as it hits its first profitable quarter and nearly $50 billion in projected annual revenue, even as a growing corporate backlash over AI costs looms — with 40% of companies reporting AI savings below 10% and one CFO spending half a billion dollars on Claude in …
Anthropic expands Project Glasswing to 150 new partners across 15 countries, granting access to its Mythos AI model, which has already uncovered over 10,000 critical security flaws in critical sectors including power, water, and healthcare.