Prime Day triggers a $24 billion spending spree across US e-commerce sites, up 30.3% year-over-year, while GenAI traffic to retail platforms skyrockets 3,300% as shoppers leverage AI for product research and purchases.
In a potential industry-shaking move, Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, weighs developing closed AI models, risking backlash from open source advocates as it seeks to monetize AI beyond advertising and retain top talent with high salaries.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot SuperGrok introduces provocative anime avatars 'Ani' and 'Rudy', with Ani featuring an 'NSFW' lingerie mode and another AI character 'Chad' reportedly in development.
The Pentagon strikes a $200 million deal with Elon Musk's AI company Grok to utilize its chatbot technology for defense applications, escalating tensions between the tech billionaire and former President Trump.
The Department of Defense awards contracts to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI to accelerate adoption of advanced AI capabilities, leveraging frontier companies' technology and talent to develop agentic AI workflows across mission areas through a commercial-first approach.
In a groundbreaking move, Cognition acquires Windsurf, the pioneering agentic IDE, along with its IP, product, trademark, brand, and talented team, propelling its mission to revolutionize software engineering with cutting-edge technology and innovation.
In an escalating tech talent war, Google acquires AI coding startup Windsurf for $2.4 billion, onboarding co-founder Varun Mohan and senior R&D staff to bolster its AI capabilities against rivals like OpenAI and Meta.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2, a groundbreaking 1 trillion parameter open-source language model that surpasses GPT-4 in coding, autonomous tasks, and math reasoning while being offered for free, potentially disrupting big tech's profit centers with its cost-efficient MuonClip optimizer.
Google acquires AI coding startup Windsurf in a major coup, bolstering its DeepMind team and beating out OpenAI's previous $3 billion offer for the promising generative AI company.
Meta acquires AI voice cloning startup PlayAI, adding its team to Meta's efforts in developing superhuman artificial intelligence and AI products like AI Characters and wearables under Johan Schalkwyk.