Nine class-action lawsuits are filed in Chicago's federal court by journalists, podcasters, and voice actors accusing Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Meta of illegally using their voices without consent to train AI models, marking a bold new frontier for Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.
xAI is losing over 50 researchers and engineers in a mass exodus since February, with rivals Meta and Thinking Machines Lab scooping up departing talent as Elon Musk's extreme work culture, unrealistic deadlines, and corner-cutting practices gut critical teams, leaving the company's ability to compete in AI development in serious …
OpenAI is threatening legal action against Apple, alleging the tech giant deliberately buried its ChatGPT integration since June 2024, costing OpenAI significant subscribers and revenue, while Apple cites privacy concerns amid growing tensions between the two companies.
xAI cofounder Igor Babuschkin is seeking up to $1 billion for his new AI startup River AI at a $5 billion valuation, with General Catalyst in talks to lead the round and Babuschkin personally committing $100 million to the venture.
Microsoft is aggressively pursuing AI startup acquisitions, including talks with Stanford-spun Inception, as it races to build frontier AI independence from OpenAI by 2027 — after losing a bid for code-generation startup Cursor to a SpaceX-xAI deal worth $60 billion.
Raindrop Workshop is a new local debugging tool that streams every token, tool call, and decision from AI coding agents in real time, integrating with popular platforms like Claude Code to enable self-healing loops that automatically fix failures until all assertions pass.
Notion launches a new Developer Platform, transforming its workspace into an AI agent orchestration hub where custom code, live data, and external AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor can connect, automate workflows, and operate natively without outside infrastructure.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems explodes 68% on its Nasdaq debut, closing at $311.07 after raising $5.55 billion in the largest U.S. tech IPO since Uber's 2019 listing, pushing its market cap to roughly $95 billion as it aggressively challenges Nvidia with new deals from AWS and OpenAI.
AI chipmaker Cerebras explodes 90% on its Nasdaq trading debut, opening at $350 after pricing at $185, claiming the biggest IPO of the year with a $75 billion valuation amid overwhelming investor demand exceeding 20 times available shares as it challenges Nvidia's dominance.
Braintrust launches multi-turn AI conversation evaluation tools that expose hidden chatbot failures—like repeated questions and contradictions—by scoring both individual responses and full conversations at scale in production.