South Korean AI chip startup Rebellions hits a $2.34 billion valuation after securing $400 million in a pre-IPO round led by Mirae Asset Financial Group, while simultaneously launching two new AI infrastructure platforms, RebelRack and RebelPOD, as the company aggressively expands into the U.S., Japan, Saudi Arabia, and Taiwan.
Snowflake deploys AI agents across its entire workforce, betting that data-driven automation will revolutionize enterprise operations, with tools like Project SnowWork and Cortex Code enabling employees and customers to automate complex tasks without traditional coding skills.
Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, a powerful new AI feature within Microsoft 365 that autonomously executes complex, multi-step workflows — letting users simply describe a goal while Copilot plans, reasons, and delivers results across tools and files, with early enterprise adopters already streamlining operations at scale.
French AI startup Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to build a massive Paris-area data center powered by 13,800 Nvidia GB300 GPUs, set to go online in Q2 2026 as Europe races to close the AI infrastructure gap with U.S. giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.
Starcloud raises $170M at a $1.1B valuation to build AI data centers in orbit, already operating a satellite with an Nvidia H100 GPU, though major technical and cost hurdles — including chip cooling, power generation, and reliance on frequent SpaceX Starship launches not expected until 2028 — still stand between …
Supermemory claims the #1 spot on all three major AI memory benchmarks — LongMemEval, LoCoMo, and ConvoMem — with a new context engine that automatically extracts facts, resolves contradictions, and delivers real-time memory via a single API integrating Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, and more.
Hermes Agent v0.5.0 launches today with Hugging Face integration, Telegram Private Chat Topics, a native Modal SDK backend, major security hardening including supply chain fixes and SSRF protections, GPT tool-use enforcement, and over 50 bug patches.
Elon Musk's xAI loses its final two original co-founders, Manuel Kroiss and Ross Nordeen, leaving Musk without any of his 11 founding partners as he admits the company 'was not built right the first time' and rebuilds from scratch following SpaceX's acquisition.
Anthropic's Claude is experiencing explosive growth in 2025, with paid subscriptions more than doubling thanks to viral Super Bowl ads, a high-profile Pentagon feud, and new tools like Claude Code — but ChatGPT still dominates as OpenAI continues outpacing rivals in the AI subscription race.
Claude is surging in popularity in early 2026, triggering outages and new peak-hour usage limits that consume up to 2x more credits, yet ChatGPT still dominates with up to 900 million users compared to Claude's estimated 30 to 180 million.