Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek, granting the Taiwanese chipmaker access to its NVLink Fusion ecosystem to design custom AI chips, as Nvidia fights to stay dominant amid rising competition from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft building their own silicon.
Nvidia is reportedly set to acquire AI hub Hugging Face for $13 billion, while Anthropic simultaneously secures a $45 billion data center deal and faces a major copyright lawsuit from Sony Music and Warner Chappell over alleged unauthorized use of music to train its Claude AI model.
OpenAI is quietly rolling out outcome-based pricing for select enterprise clients, charging only when AI successfully completes a task — a bold industry shift that transfers financial risk from buyers to vendors, though defining 'success' for complex AI tasks remains a critical unresolved challenge.
Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic, alleging the AI giant illegally torrented thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI, with internal messages showing employees and co-founders knowingly embracing piracy — including co-founder Dario Amodei allegedly approving torrenting to avoid a 'legal slog' — while Claude continues …
Cloudflare launches Adaptive Intelligence, an AI-powered security engine that autonomously analyzes over a trillion web visits daily, generating real-time defense rules to combat evolving cyberattacks as static security strategies become obsolete in the age of AI-driven threats.
OpenAI's advertising business hits a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate just 200 days after launch, with ChatGPT Ads now live in over 40 countries, strengthening the company's case for its $852 billion valuation ahead of a highly anticipated IPO.
Physical Superintelligence (PSI) launches from stealth with $58M in seed funding, unveiling its AI physics platform Emmy and partnering on a privately funded interstellar mission to Alpha Centauri, proving a small AI-native team can tackle challenges once reserved for national laboratories.
A flood of pricey AI gadgets like the $159 Flowtica Scribe pen and $249 Plaud One earbuds are hitting shelves, but their core features — recording, transcription, and summarization — are already available on your smartphone, raising serious questions about whether consumers are paying a premium for little more than …
Nvidia makes its largest overseas investment yet, pouring $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek through convertible bonds, deepening collaboration as Nvidia aggressively expands its data center ecosystem.
A groundbreaking 'superhuman' AI tool detects heart failure and valve disease from routine ECGs in under two seconds, identifying up to 90% of valve disease cases in a 67,000-patient trial, potentially fast-tracking high-risk patients to life-saving scans months sooner.