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Chinese generative AI startups MiniMax and Zhipu AI have disclosed their financials ahead of potential Hong Kong listings, highlighting modest revenues and mounting losses compared with U.S. peers.
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Chinese generative AI startups MiniMax and Zhipu AI have disclosed their financials ahead of potential Hong Kong listings, highlighting modest revenues and mounting losses compared with U.S. peers.
Zoom introduced AI Companion 3.0, a federated AI solution integrating internal and third-party models to streamline meetings, documents, and personal workflows. The update adds agentic AI features, a web interface, and enhanced productivity tools.
Nvidia is reportedly planning to increase production of its H200 AI training chips following approval to sell them in China.
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging ChatGPT reinforced a man’s violent delusions, contributing to the killing of his mother in Connecticut. The case marks the first time an AI platform has been accused of involvement in a murder.
Google introduced the Titans architecture and the MIRAS framework to enable AI models to handle massive contexts and update their internal memory while running, improving performance in long-sequence tasks.
OpenAI buys Neptune for under $400 million in stock, gaining advanced AI model tracking tools and strengthening capabilities in large-scale AI development.
OpenAI introduces an experimental “confessions” system that rewards honest self-reporting of mistakes in GPT-5 Thinking models, aiming to improve AI safety and visibility of failures.
AWS introduced new tools for enterprise customers to build and fine-tune custom large language models, alongside AI infrastructure offerings for on-premises deployments.
OpenAI and Perplexity introduced AI shopping tools this week, helping users find products through chat-based queries. Experts say startups with niche datasets may still outperform general-purpose chatbots.
xAI has launched Grok 4.1, a major model upgrade designed to deliver more creative, emotionally aware, and coherent interactions, with new Thinking and Non-Thinking variants now live across all xAI platforms.