xAI’s $6 Billion Raise: Musk’s AI Lab Valued at $40 Billion
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has a new price tag. xAI said it closed a $6 billion Series C round that values the firm at $40 billion, with Fidelity and Valor…
Gemini 2.0 Moves Into the Office: Google Rebuilds Workspace Around AI
The meeting ended, and the notes were already written. Google this week announced that Gemini 2.0 is now fully integrated into Workspace, adding automatic meeting summaries, smart replies across Gmail…
Anthropic Nears a $30 Billion Raise, Closing In on OpenAI’s Valuation
For the first time, corporate spending on Claude has edged past spending on ChatGPT, according to data that investors have been passing around this month. Ramp’s April AI Index, a…
TSMC’s Bonus Math: Record Profit, Restless Workers
The complaints spilled across employee forums this week in a tone TSMC rarely hears from its own people: anger. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted record…
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Learns to Watch Video in Real Time
The demo that got engineers talking wasn’t a chatbot answering a question. It was a live camera feed. OpenAI this week launched GPT-5, its latest flagship model, and the headline…
ChatGPT’s New Party Trick: Filling Out Your Forms
The demo began with a gym membership form. A user photographed it, spoke the details aloud — name, address, a fitness goal written as a joke — and ChatGPT filled…
Tesla’s Robots Take a Turn on the Assembly Line
The task was unglamorous: carry a part, seat a screw, route a wiring harness. The setting was not. For the first time, Tesla has put its Optimus humanoid robots to…
Micron CEO Warns the Memory Squeeze Will Outlast 2026
The message from Sanjay Mehrotra was meant to be heard beyond the chip industry. In an interview with CNBC this week, the Micron chief executive warned that the global shortage…
Nvidia’s Huang Puts a $4 Trillion Price Tag on AI’s Future
John Steinbach opened his January electricity bill and did a double take: $281, against roughly $100 the month before. The retired Virginia homeowner has lived in the same house for…
DeepSeek Makes Its Price Cut Permanent
For developers who track every fraction of a yuan per million tokens, the notice landed like a rate cut from a central bank. DeepSeek announced this week that the promotional…
