OpenAI ChatGPT Nears 700 Million Weekly Users—and OpenAI Hits $12B in Revenue By Chris McKay • Aug 4, 2025 OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users, up from 500 million in March and quadruple its usage a year ago, and revenue has nearly doubled to about $12–13 billion.
OpenAI OpenAI Raises $8.3B Toward Its $40B Fundraise By Chris McKay • Aug 1, 2025 OpenAI has closed $8.3 billion in new funding—part of its ongoing $40 billion round—pushing its valuation to $300 billion and paving the way for massive AI infrastructure expansion.
OpenAI Education OpenAI Launches Study Mode for ChatGPT By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 OpenAI has added a Study Mode to ChatGPT that guides students through problems with interactive prompts and quizzes rather than serving up instant solutions.
Google NotebookLM can Now Turn Your Notes into Narrated Videos By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 Google's NotebookLM adds Video Overviews with narrated slides and an upgraded Studio panel that lets users create multiple outputs per notebook, building on the research tool's viral success with AI-generated podcasts.
Google Google's AI Mode gets a Canvas for Persistent Planning By Chris McKay • Jul 29, 2025 Canvas slots into Google Search’s AI Mode as a persistent side panel where you can build, tweak, and pick up plans—study guides, trips, projects—whenever inspiration (or panic) strikes.
Tesla Samsung Chips Tesla just handed Samsung its biggest foundry win ever with a $16.5 billion AI chip deal By Chris McKay • Jul 28, 2025
OpenAI Oracle AI Infrastructure OpenAI Signs 4.5GW Datacenter Capacity Partnership with Oracle, says Stargate to Expand Significantly By Chris McKay • Jul 22, 2025
Google Gemini Gemini with Deep Think Achieves Gold at International Math Olympiad By Chris McKay • Jul 21, 2025
OpenAI ChatGPT ChatGPT Agent Is Here—and It Can Actually Get Things Done For You By Chris McKay • Jul 17, 2025
Adobe Media & Entertainment Adobe Firefly Can Now Create Sound Effects With Your Voice and Adds More Advanced Video Capabilities By Chris McKay • Jul 17, 2025
Amazon AWS launches AgentCore to Easily Create Production-Ready AI Agents By Chris McKay • Jul 16, 2025
AI Policy AI Infrastructure Trump Unveils $90B+ in Investments for AI Hub in Pennsylvania By Chris McKay • Jul 15, 2025
Thinking Machines Startups Venture Capital Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B Seed Round By Chris McKay • Jul 15, 2025
Google Google Launches Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM: Expert Insights Made Easy By Chris McKay • Jul 15, 2025
Startups Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google's Talent Raid Left it Gutted By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
Amazon Amazon takes on GitHub Copilot with Kiro, an IDE that Goes Beyond "Vibe Coding" By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
Military & Defense Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI just scored the DoD’s Biggest AI Deal Yet By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
xAI Tesla Musk Says No to Tesla–xAI Merger, But Pushes for Shareholder Vote on Investment By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
xAI Military & Defense Grok xAI Launches Grok for Government, Announces DoD Contract By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
xAI Grok Elon Musk's xAI Apologizes for Grok's Antisemitic Rants that Praised Hitler By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025
Google OpenAI's Windsurf Deal is Dead — Google just Poached the CEO Instead By Chris McKay • Jul 11, 2025
