Alibaba’s AI app Qwen surpassed 10 million downloads in its first week after relaunch, signaling strong adoption as the company positions itself against ChatGPT in China.
Russia is developing home-grown AI models to compete with U.S. and China, with Sberbank leading efforts. Officials compare AI influence to nuclear technology, emphasizing national sovereignty.
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), launched to cut bureaucracy and federal spending, has been disbanded eight months early. Remaining functions are now handled by the Office of Personnel Management.
AI testing startup Momentic raised $15 million in a Series A to expand its platform for automated software verification. The company helps developers simplify testing of user flows and critical code.
Asian semiconductor shares sank after Nvidia’s overnight decline, with major suppliers including SoftBank, SK Hynix, Samsung, and TSMC posting sharp losses. T
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees that Google’s new Gemini 3 model is tightening the AI race and may create temporary economic headwinds for the company. Despite the pressure, Altman said OpenAI remains focused on ambitious long-term breakthroughs and expects to catch up.
OpenAI has partnered with Foxconn to co-design and prepare U.S. manufacturing for next-generation AI data center hardware, strengthening domestic supply chains and accelerating deployment of advanced compute systems.
Amazon’s latest layoffs hit engineering and product roles hardest as the company restructures and redirects resources toward artificial intelligence.
Google executives told employees the company must double its compute capacity every six months to keep pace with surging demand for AI services, underscoring the rising cost and competition in cloud infrastructure.
ChatGPT is expanding group chats to Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users worldwide, allowing collaborative conversations with friends, family, or coworkers alongside AI assistance.
SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to convert an Ohio EV plant into a facility producing modular data center equipment for OpenAI’s expanding U.S. infrastructure.
Voice AI startup Wispr has secured another $25M in funding as its Flow dictation app surges in enterprise adoption and user retention, bringing total capital raised to $81M.
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, an upgraded AI image editing and generation tool powered by Gemini 3 Pro, expanding its capabilities for infographics, character consistency, and multi-image creation.
AI pioneer Yann LeCun is departing Meta after 12 years to launch a new company focused on “advanced machine intelligence,” diverging from the industry’s fixation on large language models.
Kraków, long a European hotspot for outsourcing, is facing large-scale job cuts as AI automates traditional back-office operations. The shift is emptying offices that once buzzed with multinational firms.