xAI is pivoting from AI lab to compute landlord, striking massive GPU-leasing deals worth over $2 billion monthly with Anthropic and Google, while its own Grok model falls behind competitors as the company's unmatched datacenter construction speed becomes its most valuable asset.
Apple unveils 'Siri AI' at WWDC, powered by Google Gemini, bringing smarter conversations, multi-step tasks, and visual intelligence to newer devices like the iPhone 17 Pro and M4 iPad, with some features limited by hardware specs and iCloud+ subscription tiers.
Xiaomi and TileRT claim a major AI speed breakthrough, hitting over 1,000 tokens per second on a trillion-parameter model using just 8 commodity GPUs — roughly 15 times faster than ChatGPT and Claude — powered by FP4 quantization and speculative decoding, with an open-source model checkpoint already live on Hugging …
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas confirms a firm 2028 IPO target as the AI industry braces for a wave of major public listings, with Anthropic valued near $1 trillion and OpenAI also filing confidentially, while enterprise AI spending shifts toward cost-efficient models.
Agentic AI has hit peak hype on Gartner's 2026 Hype Cycle, with over 60% of organizations planning deployment within two years, yet only 17% have actually done so, exposing a massive gap between enterprise ambition and real-world execution.
OpenAI confidentially files an S-1 with the SEC, valued at over $850 billion, potentially setting the stage for one of the largest IPOs in history, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley leading the charge amid a historic wave of AI company public market debuts.
Anthropic's Mythos AI is sending shockwaves through the cybersecurity world, generating a working Windows kernel exploit in just 31 minutes and successfully creating 8 working exploits each for Firefox and Windows — dramatically shrinking the critical window between vulnerability disclosure and patching, while open-source models race toward similar capabilities and …
Amazon launches an AI-powered custom merchandise tool through Alexa, letting shoppers instantly design and order personalized T-shirts, hoodies, and more via text prompts, posing a serious threat to print-on-demand competitors like Redbubble and Printful.
Anthropic files confidential IPO paperwork with the SEC, eyeing a staggering $1 trillion valuation that could make it one of the largest public offerings in history, following a $65 billion funding round that already crowns it the world's most valuable startup.
Apple unveils a rebuilt Siri and sweeping AI integration across all its devices at WWDC 2026, but despite privacy-first guardrails and massive reach, it trails rivals like OpenAI and Google in the rapidly growing AI agents race.