Cursor secures $2.3 billion Series D funding at $29.3 billion valuation as the AI code editor crosses $1 billion in annualized revenue, with backing from tech giants including NVIDIA and Google while serving millions of developers worldwide.
Mozilla launches AI Window for Firefox, introducing a third browsing mode alongside private and classic windows that features an optional AI assistant and chatbot, positioning itself as a web-exploration tool rather than a conversational trap.
Google launches revolutionary AI shopping assistant that calls stores to check inventory, automatically purchases items when prices drop to target levels, and offers conversational search across 50 billion product listings with seamless checkout through Google Pay.
New research testing 24 advanced AI language models reveals they systematically fail to distinguish between belief and knowledge, with accuracy plummeting from over 90% to as low as 14.4% when processing first-person false beliefs, exposing critical flaws in their reasoning capabilities.
Collins Dictionary crowns 'vibe coding' as Word of the Year, recognizing the revolutionary practice of creating computer programs by simply describing them to AI instead of manually writing code, making app development accessible to non-programmers.
WisdomAI secures $50 million Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins and NVentures as the startup explodes from 2 to 40 enterprise customers including Cisco and ConocoPhillips with its hallucination-free AI analytics platform that lets users query business data in natural language.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.1 with two variants - GPT-5.1 Instant for enhanced conversations and GPT-5.1 Thinking for adaptive reasoning - while introducing specialized mental health safety features targeting delusions, psychosis, and emotional dependency concerns.
World Labs unveils Marble AI, a groundbreaking commercial platform that transforms simple text prompts and photos into complete, downloadable 3D virtual worlds, with pricing starting free and reaching $95 monthly for premium features.
MIT researchers unveil SEAL, a groundbreaking technique that enables AI models to permanently learn new information by creating their own study sheets and updating internal weights, boosting accuracy by 15% on question-answering and over 50% on skill-learning tasks.
Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable surges to nearly 8 million users and attracts Fortune 500 companies despite experiencing a 40% traffic drop since September, as the one-year-old company seeks a massive $5 billion valuation after previously raising $228 million.