Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek's new platform ai.com crashes under massive traffic after a minimalist Super Bowl ad promises artificial general intelligence and 60-second autonomous agent creation for tasks like stock trading, following a $70 million domain purchase and $8-10 million commercial investment.
Anthropic races toward a massive $20 billion funding round at a staggering $350 billion valuation, doubling their original target as tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft join the investment frenzy while AI rivals OpenAI simultaneously pursues its own $100 billion raise in an escalating battle for AI dominance.
OpenAI rockets past 800 million weekly users while closing in on a massive $100 billion funding round backed by tech giants Microsoft, Nvidia, Amazon, and SoftBank, as the AI company launches ChatGPT advertising and prepares to unveil an updated model amid explosive growth.
Databricks secures $5 billion in funding, catapulting its valuation to $134 billion as the data analytics giant reports explosive 65% revenue growth to $5.4 billion annually while achieving positive cash flow and eyeing a potential 2026 IPO.
OpenAI begins displaying targeted ads to ChatGPT free users across the US as the company scrambles to offset massive projected losses of $14 billion by 2026, launching just one day after rival Anthropic's Super Bowl commercial slammed the advertising approach.
ByteDance unveils Seedance 2.0, a groundbreaking AI video model that creates cinematic-quality videos from text prompts, sparking massive stock surges across Chinese media companies with some hitting daily price limits as the technology democratizes professional video production.
Elon Musk's xAI opens a massive 25,000-square-foot engineering hub in downtown Bellevue just minutes from OpenAI's offices, creating an AI battleground as the company recruits engineers with salaries up to $440,000 for core AI research and development roles.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft reveal a staggering $1.1 trillion cloud computing backlog as AI demand explodes, forcing Big Tech giants to tap bond markets for billions while creating massive opportunities for smaller competitors.
Google launches revolutionary Interactions API that replaces traditional AI prompts with stateful session management, enabling developers to build persistent AI applications with background processing capabilities and explicit context tracking that survives across sessions while reducing costs.
OpenAI abandons 'io' branding for its upcoming AI hardware devices amid trademark dispute, with the affected product not expected to ship until 2027 according to Monday court filings.