SpaceX makes history with the largest IPO ever, surging 19% to close at $161 per share and hitting a $2 trillion valuation, driven by its $250 billion xAI acquisition and orbital AI data center plans, even as critics warn a massive AI valuation bubble may be forming in real time.
Google sues Chinese cybercrime group 'Outsider Enterprise' for using AI tools including Gemini to run massive phishing campaigns targeting over 100,000 Americans, while coordinating with the FBI and major telecoms to block fraud and backing seven bipartisan bills to combat AI-powered scams.
Perplexity's CBO Dmitry Shevelenko reveals how AI agents are transforming the workforce, why small teams will dominate the future, and which three human skills remain irreplaceable as AI takes over knowledge work.
French AI startup Mistral AI is in talks to raise $3.5 billion in a new funding round that could value the company at $23 billion, nearly doubling its previous $13 billion valuation as it races to compete against US and Chinese AI rivals.
Mark Zuckerberg admits Meta made mistakes during its AI-driven overhaul, following mass layoffs affecting 10% of its workforce, as the company now scrambles to rebuild morale, rehire displaced workers, and promises no further company-wide layoffs this year.
Meta is in the grip of a company-wide morale crisis, with thousands of employees calling their work 'soul-crushing,' over 1,600 signing a petition against keystroke monitoring, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting restructuring mistakes in an internal memo while promising no further mass layoffs and pledging workplace improvements.
McDonald's is testing a Google-powered AI drive-thru system called 'Archy' at five U.S. locations, completing 90% of orders without human help while taking orders in English and Spanish — signaling a potentially major shift in fast food despite customer pushback.
Databricks open sources Omnigent, a groundbreaking meta-harness under Apache 2.0 that unifies AI agents like Claude Code and Codex into one interoperable platform, enabling real-time collaboration, dynamic security policies, and cloud sandboxing across multiple agent frameworks.
Meta's Applied AI unit is erupting in near-revolt as thousands of forcibly assigned engineers call the work 'soul-crushing' and compare the group to a 'gulag,' with a hijacked internal livestream descending into chaos, over 1,600 employees signing a petition against AI monitoring programs, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitting the sweeping …
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant claiming to outperform Claude Code on long-horizon tasks, featuring a cross-session memory system, one-million-token context window, and aggressively low pricing at $0.40 per million input tokens — though self-reported benchmarks and early-stage status warrant cautious optimism.