Chinese AI startup Z.ai partners with Alibaba Cloud to launch a free general-purpose AI agent capable of handling everyday tasks like ordering food and generating content, available on Android, iOS, and web, amid fierce competition in China's AI agent market.
In a major coup, Google secures a staggering $10 billion AI cloud deal with Meta over six years, solidifying its position as a leading provider of artificial intelligence infrastructure as Meta doubles down on developing its Llama family of AI models.
Google unveils AI Inference Impact Metrics, a methodology quantifying the energy, emissions, and water footprint of AI inference tasks like Gemini text prompts, revealing median energy use of 0.24 watt-hours and emissions of 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide per prompt.
Google and GSA unveil 'Gemini for Government' agreement offering federal agencies access to Google's AI models, agents, and cloud infrastructure at discounted rates to accelerate AI adoption across government as outlined in America's AI Action Plan.
Anthropic unveils an enterprise bundle combining Claude Code, a tool for coding with AI, and Claude for Enterprise, enabling businesses to develop AI-powered applications with granular spending controls and scalability for intense workloads.
Databricks, a data and AI company, secures a staggering $100 billion valuation in its latest funding round, accelerating its AI strategy with Agent Bricks expansion, Lakebase investment, and global growth fueled by investor interest in its AI products powering businesses.
Databricks, the data analytics platform, secures over $1 billion in a mega funding round, valuing the company at a staggering $100 billion, becoming the 4th private company to exceed a $100 billion valuation, as investors show strong interest following Figma's successful IPO.
Functionize, a cloud platform that generates test scripts from natural language descriptions, secures $41M in funding to accelerate AI-powered software testing, enabling plans to hire engineers, data scientists and expand globally.
AWS sparks outrage among developers as it hikes the pricing for its AI-powered coding assistant Kiro, with the new plans costing substantially more than initially promised, leading to backlash over the 'wallet-wrecking' changes.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledges the AI market is in a bubble reminiscent of the 1990s dot-com boom, even as his unprofitable company seeks $6 billion at a staggering $500 billion valuation amid expert warnings that AI overvaluation now exceeds the internet bubble.