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Startups

This 6-month-old AI startup just sold to Wix for $80 million

By Chris McKay • Jun 19, 2025

Wix acquired six-month-old AI coding platform Base44 for $80 million, highlighting how AI tools are enabling tiny teams to build valuable companies faster than ever.

Amazon

Amazon CEO tells Staff AI will Shrink Company's Workforce in Coming Years

By Chris McKay • Jun 17, 2025

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s internal memo lays out an aggressive generative-AI roadmap—from Alexa+ to the new Nova models—and bluntly predicts a smaller corporate workforce as software agents take over rote work.

OpenAI Military & Defense

OpenAI Awarded $200M US Defense Contract, Announces OpenAI for Government

By Chris McKay • Jun 17, 2025

OpenAI has clinched a one-year, $200 million contract—its first with the U.S. Defense Department—kicking off a new “OpenAI for Government” program and intensifying the race to supply generative AI to national-security agencies.

AI Policy

NY Lawmakers Pass Landmark Bill Targeting Frontier AI Risks

By Chris McKay • Jun 13, 2025

A first-of-its-kind New York bill would make OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic publish safety playbooks and report incidents—or face fines up to $30 million.

Meta Scale

Meta Bets $14.3 Billion on Scale AI—and Its CEO—to Lead New Superintelligence Lab

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

Meta has acquired a 49% stake in data-labeling startup Scale AI for $14.3 billion, bringing CEO Alexandr Wang on board to lead a new "superintelligence" lab as the company scrambles to catch up in the AI race.

Barbie Could Get an AI Upgrade Thanks to Mattel's New OpenAI Partnership

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

Google

Google's AI Can Now Predict Hurricane Paths 15 Days Out — and the Hurricane Center Is Using It

By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025

OpenAI Op-ed

Sam Altman says the Singularity is Here, and it's Disappointingly Boring

By Chris McKay • Jun 11, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI Just Made o3-pro Available to More People and Cut the Price by 87%

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

Enterprise AI Venture Capital Startups

Glean Doubles Down on AI Agents with $150M Raise as Enterprise Adoption Explodes

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s "Climate in a Bottle" AI Model Can Simulate Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution

By Chris McKay • Jun 10, 2025

AI Infrastructure Chips

Qualcomm to Buy Alphawave Semi for $2.4B

By Chris McKay • Jun 9, 2025

Op-ed Apple

Do Airplanes Fly? Do Submarines Swim? Does AI Think?

By Chris McKay • Jun 9, 2025

Google Gemini

Google Just Quietly Upgrated Gemini 2.5 Pro

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Anthropic Military & Defense

Anthropic's New Government AI Models Signal the Defense Tech Gold Rush is Real

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Google

Google’s AI Future: Expansive, Ambitious, and Full of Questions

By Chris McKay • Jun 5, 2025

Amazon AI Infrastructure

Amazon Drops $10B on North Carolina Data Centers to Power Its AI Push

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

OpenAI Enterprise AI

ChatGPT Can Now Search Your Files, Emails, and Meeting Notes

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

Anthropic

Reddit Sues Anthropic for Allegedly Scraping Its Data Without Permission

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

Mistral Enterprise AI

Mistral Launches All-in-One Coding Assistant, Mistral Code

By Chris McKay • Jun 4, 2025

Snowflake Enterprise AI

The Biggest Announcements from Snowflake Summit 2025

By Chris McKay • Jun 3, 2025

OpenAI

OpenAI's Codex Gets a Major Upgrade: Internet Access, Voice Dictation, and Smarter PRs

By Chris McKay • Jun 3, 2025

OpenAI Snowflake

Sam Altman and Sridhar Ramaswamy Say the Quiet Part Out Loud About Enterprise AI

By Chris McKay • Jun 3, 2025

Google

Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Share AI-Powered Notebooks With a Link

By Chris McKay • Jun 3, 2025

Neuralink Raises $650M to Expand Brain-Computer Interface Trials

By Chris McKay • Jun 3, 2025

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Leading in the Intelligence Age

This 6-month-old AI startup just sold to Wix for $80 million

Amazon CEO tells Staff AI will Shrink Company's Workforce in Coming Years

OpenAI Awarded $200M US Defense Contract, Announces OpenAI for Government

NY Lawmakers Pass Landmark Bill Targeting Frontier AI Risks

Meta Bets $14.3 Billion on Scale AI—and Its CEO—to Lead New Superintelligence Lab

Barbie Could Get an AI Upgrade Thanks to Mattel's New OpenAI Partnership

Google's AI Can Now Predict Hurricane Paths 15 Days Out — and the Hurricane Center Is Using It

Sam Altman says the Singularity is Here, and it's Disappointingly Boring

OpenAI Just Made o3-pro Available to More People and Cut the Price by 87%

Glean Doubles Down on AI Agents with $150M Raise as Enterprise Adoption Explodes

NVIDIA’s "Climate in a Bottle" AI Model Can Simulate Global Climate at Kilometer-Scale Resolution

Qualcomm to Buy Alphawave Semi for $2.4B

Do Airplanes Fly? Do Submarines Swim? Does AI Think?

Google Just Quietly Upgrated Gemini 2.5 Pro

Anthropic's New Government AI Models Signal the Defense Tech Gold Rush is Real

Google’s AI Future: Expansive, Ambitious, and Full of Questions

Amazon Drops $10B on North Carolina Data Centers to Power Its AI Push

ChatGPT Can Now Search Your Files, Emails, and Meeting Notes

Reddit Sues Anthropic for Allegedly Scraping Its Data Without Permission

Mistral Launches All-in-One Coding Assistant, Mistral Code

The Biggest Announcements from Snowflake Summit 2025

OpenAI's Codex Gets a Major Upgrade: Internet Access, Voice Dictation, and Smarter PRs

Sam Altman and Sridhar Ramaswamy Say the Quiet Part Out Loud About Enterprise AI

Google’s NotebookLM Now Lets You Share AI-Powered Notebooks With a Link

Neuralink Raises $650M to Expand Brain-Computer Interface Trials