Anthropic executive Paul Smith slams OpenAI's trillion-dollar spending spree as the AI giants clash in a Super Bowl ad war, with Anthropic attacking OpenAI's ChatGPT advertising plans while software stocks plummet amid fears that Claude Cowork productivity tool threatens traditional enterprise software.
Uber unveils Cart Assistant, an AI-powered feature that instantly builds grocery baskets by scanning text lists or photos, automatically checking availability and pricing while personalizing recommendations based on purchase history to streamline shopping from idea to checkout.
Google launches Universal Commerce Protocol in 2026, enabling AI-powered direct checkout within search experiences and partnering with Etsy and Wayfair to revolutionize online shopping with personalized recommendations and seamless transactions.
AI video company Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding at a $5.3 billion valuation from investors including General Atlantic, Nvidia, and Adobe to develop revolutionary 'world models' technology that can perceive and interact with the physical world.
Six of xAI's twelve founding team members abandon ship as Elon Musk's AI company faces mounting crises with its Grok chatbot malfunctioning and generating inappropriate deepfake content, threatening the startup's IPO prospects and competitive position against OpenAI.
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.
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.