OpenAI's revenue soars past $13 billion annually despite $12 billion quarterly losses, with CEO Sam Altman projecting the AI giant could hit $100 billion by 2027 through massive infrastructure partnerships with Nvidia, Broadcom, and Oracle backed by $1.4 trillion in financial commitments.
Google unveils Antigravity, a revolutionary AI development platform featuring autonomous agents that simultaneously write code, control browsers, and execute complex software tasks, now available in public preview for free across all major operating systems.
OpenAI hires former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to lead ChatGPT operations and drive profitability as the AI giant plans to transform the chatbot into a comprehensive personal services platform covering shopping, travel, and financial advice while introducing advertising to free users.
Blimp launches a no-code AI automation platform that lets users build app workflows through simple prompts, positioning itself as a user-friendly alternative to n8n while planning expansion into a comprehensive AI-powered productivity suite.
Chinese state-sponsored hackers execute the first documented large-scale AI-powered cyberattack, using a jailbroken Claude AI system to autonomously target 30 global organizations including tech companies and government agencies, with artificial intelligence performing 80-90% of the attack work including writing exploit code and harvesting credentials.
ByteDance launches Depth Anything 3, a groundbreaking AI model that transforms any visual input into accurate 3D geometry using a single transformer backbone, dramatically outperforming previous models across depth estimation and 3D generation tasks while offering open-source access with multiple variants and interactive tools.
AI coding startup Cursor raises $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in six months while crossing $1 billion in annualized revenue with backing from major investors including Nvidia and Google.
Elon Musk's AI startup xAI secures $15 billion in funding, reaching a $200 billion valuation, while Musk simultaneously denies the reports as 'false' on X, creating confusion as the company faces criticism over its chatbot spreading misinformation and environmental concerns from energy-intensive data centers.
Baidu unveils ERNIE 5.0 multimodal AI model claiming to outperform GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in visual tasks while pricing competitively at $0.85-$3.40 per million tokens as the Chinese tech giant expands globally with AI tools that already power 83% of livestreamers during major shopping events.
OpenBuilder launches as a free open-source alternative to Lovable, offering non-technical developers powerful AI-powered building tools that match Claude Sonnet 4's performance while eliminating high costs and bugs that typically derail coding projects.