OpenAI reports more than 1 million business customers and strong growth in ChatGPT for Work, supported by new enterprise tools, integrations, and model capabilities.
Google is making its seventh-generation TPU, called Ironwood, publicly available as it aims to win more AI infrastructure business and challenge Nvidia’s dominance in model training and deployment.
Snap will integrate Perplexity’s AI search engine into Snapchat’s My AI chatbot, with Perplexity paying $400 million for the deal and gaining access to the app’s global user base.
Stanford professor Stefano Ermon’s startup Inception secured $50 million to expand diffusion-based AI for software development, aiming to reduce latency and compute costs.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang clarified remarks suggesting China would win the AI race, saying the U.S. can stay ahead by innovating faster and empowering global developers.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company is not planning an initial public offering soon, emphasizing a continued focus on research and growth over profitability.
Tinder is piloting a new AI feature called Chemistry to learn user interests and improve match recommendations as the app continues to face declines in paying subscribers.
Apple plans to use a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI to upgrade Siri, paying around $1 billion per year while continuing to develop its own AI models for Apple Intelligence features.
Pinterest is turning to open source AI models to cut expenses and enhance its visual search and shopping tools, even as the company forecasts softer holiday revenue. CEO Bill Ready says the approach will support performance while keeping infrastructure costs in check.
Google’s $32B acquisition of cloud security startup Wiz has cleared U.S. antitrust review, bringing the tech giant one step closer to completing its largest-ever deal.
xAI allegedly required employees to give biometric data to train Ani, its anime AI companion, sparking concerns over deepfakes and data licensing.
SoftBank and OpenAI establish SB OAI Japan to sell enterprise AI solutions domestically, as the company ramps its own internal use of ChatGPT technology.
Sandbar, founded by former Meta and CTRL-Labs designers, debuts Stream, a whisper-friendly AI ring for capturing ideas and controlling apps.
Google Maps is adding Gemini for conversational search while driving, landmark-based directions, and visual place queries using Lens in the U.S. rollout.
Shopify reports surging traffic and purchases from AI tools, calls agentic commerce the biggest shift since the internet, and highlights partnerships with OpenAI, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot.