OpenAI
OpenAI Ends Microsoft Exclusive Partnership, Snabbit Raises at $400M
OpenAI and Microsoft ended their exclusive partnership, allowing OpenAI to work with any cloud provider while…
Category: Companies
Funding, deals, leadership shifts, and strategy from the companies building the AI stack.
Google
AI Startup Ineffable Intelligence Raises Record $1.1B Seed at $5.1B
Former Google DeepMind researcher raises record $1.1B seed funding for Ineffable Intelligence at $5.1B valuation, while…
OpenAI
DeepSeek-V4 Tops Benchmarks at 1/6th Cost of GPT-5.5, Claude Opus
DeepSeek-V4 achieves frontier AI performance at one-sixth the cost of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus, while new…
Companies
AI Startups Raise $1.6B as ComfyUI Hits $500M, Ineffable $5.1B Valuations
AI startups raised over $1.6 billion this week, led by Ineffable Intelligence's record $1.1 billion seed…
Companies
Wall Street Banks Deploy AI Trading Systems as Fintech Adoption Surges
Financial institutions are rapidly deploying AI across trading, fraud detection, and customer service, with over 1,300…
Companies
Meta Cuts 8,000 Jobs While Companies Deploy 1,302 AI Use Cases
Meta announced 8,000 layoffs while Google documented 1,302 AI use cases across major organizations, highlighting the…
Companies
SpaceX Eyes $60B Cursor Acquisition as VC Buyouts Face Crisis
SpaceX announced a partnership with AI coding startup Cursor that includes a $60 billion acquisition option,…
Apple
Microsoft Defender CVE-2026-33825 Exploited, Apple Patches iOS Flaw
Microsoft patched a critical Defender zero-day (CVE-2026-33825) exploited by threat actors within eight days of disclosure,…
OpenAI
DeepSeek-V4 Delivers Frontier AI at 1/6th Cost of GPT-5.5, Opus 4.7
DeepSeek released its V4 model delivering frontier AI performance at one-sixth the cost of competing systems…
OpenAI
OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, Calls It Final Step Before AGI
OpenAI released GPT-5.5, which Sam Altman calls the final milestone before AGI, alongside ChatGPT Images 2.0…
OpenAI
DeepSeek-V4 Claims SOTA Performance at 1/6th Cost vs GPT-5.5
DeepSeek released its V4 model with frontier AI performance at one-sixth the cost of GPT-5.5, while…
Apple
Apple Patches iOS CVE-2026-28950 Exposing Deleted Signal Messages
Apple patched CVE-2026-28950 allowing recovery of deleted Signal messages, while Microsoft's Defender faced active zero-day exploitation.…