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OpenAI

OpenAI Releases o3-Mini, Bringing Smarter, Faster, and Cheaper Reasoning AI to Free Users

By Chris McKay • Jan 31, 2025

For developers, o3-mini provides full API access with support for function calling, structured outputs, and developer messages. The model offers three reasoning effort levels - low, medium, and high - allowing developers to optimize for their specific use cases.

ElevenLabs Venture Capital Startups

ElevenLabs Raises $180M Series C, Triples Valuation to $3.3B

By Chris McKay • Jan 30, 2025

The company's technology powers voice features for major platforms including Perplexity, Chess.com, ESPN, and The Atlantic.

AI Policy Anthropic

Anthropic’s CEO Defends U.S. Export Controls, Calls DeepSeek’s Advances “Expected”

By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025

In a detailed essay published Wednesday, Amodei refuted claims that DeepSeek’s latest models suggest China is catching up faster than expected, maintaining that their advancements align with expected trends.

Venture Capital Startups

Clutch Security Raises $20M Series A to Tackle Machine Identity Protection

By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025

The round was led by SignalFire, with participation from existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, bringing the company's total funding to $28.5 million.

OpenAI Microsoft

OpenAI and Microsoft Signal Ambitious Next Phase in AI Partnership

By Chris McKay • Jan 29, 2025

While specific details about the next phase remain under wraps, the collaboration remains one of the most important ones in the industry, and will continue to significantly shape the trajectory of AI development and deployment at scale.

Alibaba Announces Qwen2.5-Max, Claims it's Better than DeepSeek

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

1X Robotics

1X Acquires Kind Humanoid, Strengthening its Position in Home Robotics

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

Venture Capital Startups Enterprise AI

Atomicwork Raises $25M to Bring AI-Native Service Management to Enterprises

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

Robotics Venture Capital Startups

Skild AI Eyes Major Funding from SoftBank

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Gov: A Secure AI Platform for U.S. Government Agencies

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

Spanish AI Medical Imaging Startup Quibim Secures $50M to Expand in U.S

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

Manas AI Launches With $24.6M to Tackle Cancer Through AI-Driven Drug Discovery

By Chris McKay • Jan 28, 2025

DeepSeek NVIDIA

Chinese AI Upstart DeepSeek Triggers Historic Tech Selloff

By Chris McKay • Jan 27, 2025

Meta AI Rolls Out New Memory and Personalization Features

By Chris McKay • Jan 27, 2025

Op-ed

6 Key AI Conversations from Davos 2025

By Chris McKay • Jan 26, 2025

Media & Entertainment

Paul McCartney Warns UK's AI Copyright Plans Could 'Rip Off' Young Musicians

By Chris McKay • Jan 25, 2025

India AI Infrastructure

Reliance to Build Massive 3GW Data Center in India, Signaling AI Infrastructure Push

By Chris McKay • Jan 24, 2025

AI Ethics

Character.AI Claims First Amendment Protects AI Chatbot Speech in Teen Suicide Case

By Chris McKay • Jan 24, 2025

Apple

Apple Taps Kim Vorrath to Bolster Siri and Apple Intelligence Efforts

By Chris McKay • Jan 24, 2025

Meta AI Infrastructure

Meta to Invest Up to $65 Billion in AI Infrastructure in 2025

By Chris McKay • Jan 24, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

AI Testing Platform Coval Raises $3.3M to Scale Agent Evaluation Tech

By Chris McKay • Jan 23, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

Anthropic Launches “Citations” API for More Trustworthy responses from Claude

By Chris McKay • Jan 23, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI Launches Operator: A New AI Agent that Can Use Your Computer to Browse the Web

By Chris McKay • Jan 23, 2025

Perplexity

Perplexity Launches AI Assistant for on Android

By Chris McKay • Jan 23, 2025

Google Anthropic Startups

Google Invests Another $1 Billion in Anthropic

By Chris McKay • Jan 22, 2025

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OpenAI Releases o3-Mini, Bringing Smarter, Faster, and Cheaper Reasoning AI to Free Users

ElevenLabs Raises $180M Series C, Triples Valuation to $3.3B

Anthropic’s CEO Defends U.S. Export Controls, Calls DeepSeek’s Advances “Expected”

Clutch Security Raises $20M Series A to Tackle Machine Identity Protection

OpenAI and Microsoft Signal Ambitious Next Phase in AI Partnership

Alibaba Announces Qwen2.5-Max, Claims it's Better than DeepSeek

1X Acquires Kind Humanoid, Strengthening its Position in Home Robotics

Atomicwork Raises $25M to Bring AI-Native Service Management to Enterprises

Skild AI Eyes Major Funding from SoftBank

OpenAI Announces ChatGPT Gov: A Secure AI Platform for U.S. Government Agencies

Spanish AI Medical Imaging Startup Quibim Secures $50M to Expand in U.S

Manas AI Launches With $24.6M to Tackle Cancer Through AI-Driven Drug Discovery

Chinese AI Upstart DeepSeek Triggers Historic Tech Selloff

Meta AI Rolls Out New Memory and Personalization Features

6 Key AI Conversations from Davos 2025

Paul McCartney Warns UK's AI Copyright Plans Could 'Rip Off' Young Musicians

Reliance to Build Massive 3GW Data Center in India, Signaling AI Infrastructure Push

Character.AI Claims First Amendment Protects AI Chatbot Speech in Teen Suicide Case

Apple Taps Kim Vorrath to Bolster Siri and Apple Intelligence Efforts

Meta to Invest Up to $65 Billion in AI Infrastructure in 2025

AI Testing Platform Coval Raises $3.3M to Scale Agent Evaluation Tech

Anthropic Launches “Citations” API for More Trustworthy responses from Claude

OpenAI Launches Operator: A New AI Agent that Can Use Your Computer to Browse the Web

Perplexity Launches AI Assistant for on Android

Google Invests Another $1 Billion in Anthropic