Vast Data secures $1 billion in Series F funding, tripling its valuation to $30 billion with backing from Nvidia and Fidelity, as its AI data infrastructure platform tackles critical memory and storage bottlenecks threatening to derail the generative AI revolution.
Apple and Google are uniting on AI as Google Cloud powers Apple's next-generation foundation models built on Gemini technology, with a more personalized Siri launching later this year that taps into users' messages and emails through a redesigned Dynamic Island interface.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Workspace Agents, enabling teams to deploy AI across complex organizational workflows, but experts are warning businesses to proceed cautiously as deep system integrations raise serious data governance and security concerns.
Unauthorized users breach Anthropic's powerful new Mythos AI model — a system the company warns could enable dangerous cyberattacks — on the very day of its announcement, with a private group reportedly accessing and using it regularly, though not yet for malicious cybersecurity purposes.
A free open-source proxy called 'free-claude-code' now lets developers run Claude Code CLI and its VSCode extension without an Anthropic API key by rerouting requests through alternative providers like NVIDIA NIM, DeepSeek, or OpenRouter.
CADAM, a free open-source browser tool, is revolutionizing 3D modeling by instantly converting text descriptions and images into fully exportable 3D models using AI — no software installation required.
OpenAI launches its Agents SDK, a Python framework now boasting 24,800+ GitHub stars, enabling AI to execute complex multi-step tasks across 100+ LLMs, with a new Sandbox feature allowing agents to inspect files, run commands, and manage entire workspace environments autonomously.
Google unveils its 8th-generation TPU chips — the TPU 8t and TPU 8i — delivering nearly 3x the compute performance per pod, 80% better performance-per-dollar, and 2x improved energy efficiency over the previous generation, set for general availability later this year.
Google Cloud is processing over 16 billion AI tokens per minute, launching its 8th-generation TPUs and a new Enterprise Agent Platform, while reporting that 75% of internal code is now AI-generated and AI-driven security tools are cutting threat mitigation time by over 90%.
SpaceX strikes a landmark $60 billion deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, signaling a major push into the AI tools market as the two companies unite with the ambitious goal of building the world's best coding and knowledge work AI.