OpenAI's valuation skyrockets to $500 billion as anticipation builds for the imminent GPT-5 launch and revenue soars from $10 billion to a projected $20 billion by year's end.
A surging Mid-Atlantic AI hub spanning Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC challenges Silicon Valley's primacy, boasting abundant talent and innovation but requiring strategic investment to scale its 'Star Hub' potential.
Amazon braces for a massive $100 billion capital expenditure in 2025, while tech giants Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet unleash a staggering $315 billion investment spree this year, with Amazon's AWS cloud computing unit anticipating 'lumpy' growth in the coming years.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces massive AI spending will continue through 2026 with expenses exceeding 2025 levels, raising total expense forecast to $114-118 billion and investing $14.3 billion in AI startup Scale AI, sending shares soaring 12% after strong quarterly earnings beat expectations.
AlphaEarth Foundations unveils a comprehensive digital twin of Earth's surface by integrating petabytes of data from satellites, radar, and climate simulations, enabling detailed mapping for ecosystem monitoring, agriculture, and more.
Major tech giants like Meta, Amazon, and Google are ramping up their AI investments to a staggering $325 billion in 2025, a 46% surge from 2024, despite investors' concerns over the lack of clear revenue streams from AI offerings, as these companies bet big on long-term payoffs.
Alphabet shatters records with a staggering $96.4 billion Q2 2025 revenue, propelled by YouTube's $9.79 billion ad revenue and Cloud's $13.62 billion revenue, despite losses in its Other Bets segment.
Google ramps up its 2025 capital expenditure forecast to a staggering $85 billion, a $10 billion increase from earlier projections, fueled by skyrocketing demand for its cloud services, leading to a massive $106 billion backlog and prompting accelerated data center construction and server investments.
Oracle and OpenAI massively expand their Stargate project with a 4.5 gigawatt data center capacity boost, promising over 100,000 new jobs and exceeding initial targets through strong partnerships and momentum.
In a stunning move, Meta offers a potential AI hire an eye-watering $1.25 billion contract over four years, amounting to $312 million annually, but the individual rejects the staggering offer as tech giants wage a fierce battle for elite AI talent.