Anthropic and OpenAI are launching rival enterprise AI ventures worth billions, with Anthropic securing a $1.5 billion joint venture backed by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, while OpenAI raises $4 billion for its $10 billion-valued Development Company, as both AI giants race toward potential IPOs.
A new open-source framework called open-slide now lets AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor build polished, React-based presentations from simple natural language descriptions, complete with presenter mode, a click-to-comment inspector, and one-command export to HTML or PDF.
Voice-Pro goes fully open-source, giving everyone free access to powerful AI voice cloning, speech recognition, multilingual text-to-speech, and vocal isolation tools as its developers shift focus to a new global communication platform.
Vercel open sources deepsec, an AI-powered security tool that scans codebases for vulnerabilities directly on users' own infrastructure, leveraging existing Claude or Codex subscriptions with a multi-step workflow that reduces false positives to just 10-20% and supports 1,000+ concurrent sandboxes for large repositories.
OpenAI overhauled its WebRTC architecture with a split relay-plus-transceiver model, enabling real-time voice AI to scale globally across Kubernetes for over 900 million weekly active users while minimizing latency without requiring custom client modifications.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 launches with doubled token prices over GPT-5.4, driving real-world cost increases of up to 92% for users, though longer prompts see partial relief as the model generates significantly fewer completion tokens.
Facebook Research unveils Tuna-2, a groundbreaking multimodal AI model that ditches traditional vision encoders in favor of direct pixel patch processing, outperforming predecessors on diverse benchmarks while supporting both image understanding and generation tasks in 7B and 2B parameter sizes.
Anthropic, Blackstone, and Goldman Sachs are launching a new AI-native enterprise firm backed by major investors including Sequoia Capital and Apollo Global Management, deploying Claude AI at scale across healthcare, manufacturing, and financial services industries.
Sierra AI secures $950M at a $15.8B valuation in a Tiger Global and Google-led Series E round, even as cofounder Bret Taylor warns a major AI market correction is coming within two years that will eliminate weaker players.
SAP acquires Prior Labs in a €1 billion deal to build Europe's leading frontier AI lab, combining the startup's groundbreaking Tabular Foundation Models with SAP's enterprise data and AI infrastructure to deliver instant, top-performing machine learning capabilities at scale.