xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin is seeking up to $1 billion for his new AI startup River AI at a $5 billion valuation, with General Catalyst in talks to lead the round and Babuschkin personally committing $100 million to the venture.
OpenAI is threatening legal action against Apple, alleging the tech giant deliberately buried its ChatGPT integration since June 2024, costing OpenAI significant subscribers and revenue, while Apple cites privacy concerns amid growing tensions between the two companies.
xAI is losing over 50 researchers and engineers in a mass exodus since February, with rivals Meta and Thinking Machines Lab scooping up departing talent as Elon Musk's extreme work culture, unrealistic deadlines, and corner-cutting practices gut critical teams, leaving the company's ability to compete in AI development in serious …
Cursor launches powerful cloud agent tools featuring multi-repo support, parallelized engineering task execution, and enhanced security controls including audit logs, rollback capabilities, and secrets scoping, marking a major step toward autonomous development environments.
Raindrop Workshop is a new local debugging tool that streams every token, tool call, and decision from AI coding agents in real time, integrating with popular platforms like Claude Code to enable self-healing loops that automatically fix failures until all assertions pass.
Datadog launches Toto 2.0, a groundbreaking family of open-weights time series forecasting models scaling up to 2.5 billion parameters, achieving state-of-the-art results across all major benchmarks while being up to 7 times more parameter-efficient than its predecessor.
A new Gallup survey reveals 7 in 10 Americans oppose AI data centers in their communities, with nearly half strongly against them — surpassing even opposition to nuclear plants — as environmental concerns over water, energy use, and pollution drive resistance across party lines.
Notion launches a new Developer Platform, transforming its workspace into an AI agent orchestration hub where custom code, live data, and external AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor can connect, automate workflows, and operate natively without outside infrastructure.
A new Gallup poll reveals 7 in 10 Americans oppose local data center construction, with bipartisan resistance spanning 75% of Democrats and 63% of Republicans, as environmental concerns, rising costs, and AI distrust fuel a growing public backlash that threatens the future of AI infrastructure expansion across the country.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems explodes 68% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $311.07 after raising $5.55 billion in the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 listing, pushing its market cap to roughly $95 billion as it aggressively challenges Nvidia with new deals from AWS and OpenAI.