Elon Musk's AI startup xAI secures $15 billion in funding, reaching a $200 billion valuation, while Musk simultaneously denies the reports as 'false' on X, creating confusion as the company faces criticism over its chatbot spreading misinformation and environmental concerns from energy-intensive data centers.
Baidu unveils ERNIE 5.0 multimodal AI model claiming to outperform GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in visual tasks while pricing competitively at $0.85-$3.40 per million tokens as the Chinese tech giant expands globally with AI tools that already power 83% of livestreamers during major shopping events.
OpenBuilder launches as a free open-source alternative to Lovable, offering non-technical developers powerful AI-powered building tools that match Claude Sonnet 4's performance while eliminating high costs and bugs that typically derail coding projects.
NotebookLM unveils Deep Research feature that automatically scours hundreds of websites to create comprehensive, source-backed reports on any topic while expanding file support to include Google Sheets, Word documents, images, and PDFs.
Slack unveils a redesigned AI-powered Slackbot that analyzes users' messages, files, and calendar data across multiple platforms including Google Drive and Salesforce to deliver personalized insights, automatic summaries, and workflow assistance directly within existing team communication channels.
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.
Cursor raises $2.3 billion in a new funding round, tripling its valuation to $29.3 billion in just five months, with backing from Accel, Coatue, Nvidia, and Google, as the AI coding race intensifies against rivals OpenAI and Anthropic.
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.