AI law startup Norm reaches unicorn status after raising $120 million in a Series C round led by Khosla Ventures, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion as it disrupts traditional legal billing with AI agents supervised by human attorneys serving enterprise clients.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of cheaper, in-house MAI models across products like Excel and Outlook, while simultaneously cutting 4,800 jobs and doubling down on AI expansion — a bold cost-cutting gamble that risks alienating enterprises demanding top-tier AI performance.
China is weighing a major policy reversal by restricting foreign access to its most advanced AI models, holding talks with Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai, as U.S.-China AI tensions escalate with accusations of illegal model distillation and retaliatory bans on American AI tools.
AI-generated actor Tilly Norwood is set to star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' a surreal coming-of-age story developed by U.K. studio Particle6, sparking fierce backlash from SAG-AFTRA, which accuses the technology of using stolen performances to displace human actors.
A sample of 1.2 million Claude Cowork sessions reveals business operations tasks dominate usage at 33.4%, nearly four times the 8.7% share held by software development, with roughly half of all usage falling into cross-role, supportive tasks rather than core job functions.
Microsoft is ditching OpenAI and Anthropic AI models in favor of its own proprietary MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, completing tens of thousands of prompts weekly as the tech giant slashes costs and bets big on in-house artificial intelligence.
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 dominates the Text-to-Image Arena leaderboard with a record Elo score of 1385, defeating 71 rival models across 5.6 million community votes, with Meta and Reve claiming second and third place respectively.
The US lifts export restrictions on Anthropic's Claude models, Google DeepMind partners with A24 in a landmark filmmaking-AI collaboration, and Tencent unleashes a massive 295-billion-parameter open-source model as US-China AI rivalry intensifies.
Broadcom shares surge over 6% after Apple extends their chip partnership through 2031, with Broadcom set to supply custom AI-focused ASIC chips across multiple Apple product generations, including advanced AI servers planned for 2027.
TeraWulf shares surge 13% after signing a landmark 20-year, $19 billion AI infrastructure lease with Anthropic at its Kentucky data campus, while also selling a major joint venture stake for $450 million to focus on wholly owned AI projects.