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Venture Capital Startups

Cartesia Raises $64M to Advance Real-Time Voice AI with Sonic 2.0

By Chris McKay • Mar 11, 2025

Cartesia, a real-time voice AI company, has secured $64 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins, fueling the development of Sonic 2.0, a low-latency voice model with superior voice cloning and real-time capabilities.

OpenAI

OpenAI Launches Responses API and Agents SDK for AI Agents

By Chris McKay • Mar 11, 2025

OpenAI has introduced the Responses API and Agents SDK, streamlining AI agent development with built-in tools for web search, file retrieval, and computer use.

OpenAI AI Infrastructure

OpenAI Bets Big on CoreWeave in a Five-Year, $11.9B Cloud Deal

By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025

OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion deal with CoreWeave to secure AI infrastructure, marking a major shift in its compute strategy and adding complexity to its partnership with Microsoft.

Google Gemini Enterprise AI

Google Adds Gemini AI Assistant to Calendar for Workspace Users

By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025

Google is testing Gemini AI in Google Calendar, allowing users to manage their schedules through conversational prompts, making it easier to check events, create meetings, and find key details.

Google Gemini

Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet

By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025

Google has launched an experimental Gemini-based text embedding model, offering state-of-the-art performance, increased language support, and improved efficiency for AI-powered search, classification, and retrieval tasks.

Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet

By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025

Manus China

Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions

By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025

Mistral

Mistral Unveils New OCR API With Advanced Document Understanding Capabilities

By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025

Alibaba China

Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning

By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025

OpenAI ChatGPT

GPT-4.5 Arrives for ChatGPT Plus Subscribers—Here’s What to Expect

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

AI Policy Geopolitics

Mutual Assured AI Malfunction: A New Cold War Strategy for AI Superpowers

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Google

Google Introduces “AI Mode” in Search, Expanding AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Amazon Media & Entertainment

Amazon’s Prime Video Begins AI Dubbing Pilot for Select Movies and Shows

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Venture Capital Startups

Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Accelerate AI Model Training

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Apple

Apple is Bringing AI-Generated App Review Summaries to iOS 18.4

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Microsoft OpenAI UK

UK Competition Watchdog Clears Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Google Ecommerce

Google Shopping Adds AI-Powered Fashion Search and Virtual Try-On

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Arm Chips AI Infrastructure

Malaysia Strikes $250M Deal with Arm to Jumpstart AI Chip Industry

By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025

Startups

CoreWeave Acquires Weights & Biases in a $1.7 Billion AI Cloud Play

By Chris McKay • Mar 4, 2025

Microsoft Healthcare

Microsoft Unveils Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Clinicians

By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025

Telecom Perplexity

T-Mobile Bets on AI with New Smartphone, Powered by Perplexity

By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025

Venture Capital Startups Fintech

Unique Raises $30M to Expand Its AI Agents for Financial Services

By Chris McKay • Feb 27, 2025

Startups

Inception Labs Launches Mercury, the First Commercial Diffusion-Based Language Model

By Chris McKay • Feb 26, 2025

Amazon Alexa

Amazon Unveils Alexa+: A Smarter, More Conversational AI Assistant

By Chris McKay • Feb 26, 2025

OpenAI

ChatGPT's Deep Research Now Available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise Users

By Chris McKay • Feb 25, 2025

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Cartesia Raises $64M to Advance Real-Time Voice AI with Sonic 2.0

OpenAI Launches Responses API and Agents SDK for AI Agents

OpenAI Bets Big on CoreWeave in a Five-Year, $11.9B Cloud Deal

Google Adds Gemini AI Assistant to Calendar for Workspace Users

Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet

Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet

Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions

Mistral Unveils New OCR API With Advanced Document Understanding Capabilities

Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning

GPT-4.5 Arrives for ChatGPT Plus Subscribers—Here’s What to Expect

Mutual Assured AI Malfunction: A New Cold War Strategy for AI Superpowers

Google Introduces “AI Mode” in Search, Expanding AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0

Amazon’s Prime Video Begins AI Dubbing Pilot for Select Movies and Shows

Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Accelerate AI Model Training

Apple is Bringing AI-Generated App Review Summaries to iOS 18.4

UK Competition Watchdog Clears Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership

Google Shopping Adds AI-Powered Fashion Search and Virtual Try-On

Malaysia Strikes $250M Deal with Arm to Jumpstart AI Chip Industry

CoreWeave Acquires Weights & Biases in a $1.7 Billion AI Cloud Play

Microsoft Unveils Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Clinicians

T-Mobile Bets on AI with New Smartphone, Powered by Perplexity

Unique Raises $30M to Expand Its AI Agents for Financial Services

Inception Labs Launches Mercury, the First Commercial Diffusion-Based Language Model

Amazon Unveils Alexa+: A Smarter, More Conversational AI Assistant

ChatGPT's Deep Research Now Available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise Users