Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver's new AI startup, Ineffable Intelligence, raises a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed round at a $5.1 billion valuation, marking the largest seed round in European history as it pursues superintelligence through reinforcement learning, backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, Google, and others.
A nine-person jury is seated in Oakland as the high-stakes Musk v. Altman trial kicks off, with Elon Musk seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman over allegations they abandoned the company's nonprofit mission, with opening arguments set for Tuesday before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Microsoft and OpenAI restructure their landmark partnership, granting OpenAI multi-cloud freedom while Microsoft retains a major equity stake, ends its revenue share payments, and keeps Azure as OpenAI's priority cloud provider through a newly amended agreement.
Thinking Machines Lab is aggressively poaching Meta's top AI talent, including PyTorch co-founder Soumith Chintala, as a fierce bidirectional talent war intensifies between the two companies, fueled by TML's $12 billion valuation and a major cloud deal with Google for cutting-edge Nvidia chips.
A 23-year-old amateur with no advanced math training cracks a 60-year-old mathematical conjecture using a single ChatGPT prompt, producing a novel proof that stumped world-class mathematicians for decades and is now being refined by leading experts like Terence Tao.
NVIDIA's Spatial Intelligence Lab launches Project Lyra, a groundbreaking open-source series of generative 3D world models capable of creating explorable, 3D-consistent environments from a single image, with Lyra-2.0 now live and the GitHub repository already gaining nearly 1,800 stars.
Google commits $10 billion to AI startup Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, with an additional $30 billion contingent on performance targets, deepening a complex partnership-rivalry dynamic in the global AI race.
Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in secondary market valuation, hitting $1 trillion on Forge Global as its annualized revenue explodes from $9 billion to $39 billion in just months, with investor demand so intense that some are offering property in exchange for shares.
SpaceX strikes a landmark $60 billion deal to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, signaling a major push into the AI tools market as the two companies unite with the ambitious goal of building the world's best coding and knowledge work AI.
Cursor is partnering with SpaceX to leverage xAI's Colossus infrastructure, dramatically scaling AI model training after rapid advancements with its Composer models achieved frontier-level performance at a fraction of competitor costs.