Thinking Machines Startups Venture Capital Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Raises $2B Seed Round By Chris McKay • Jul 15, 2025 Mira Murati's six-month-old AI startup Thinking Machines Lab closed a historic $2 billion seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, setting a new record for early-stage funding despite having no product or revenue.
Google Google Launches Featured Notebooks in NotebookLM: Expert Insights Made Easy By Chris McKay • Jul 15, 2025 Google is partnering with top experts to launch featured notebooks in NotebookLM, offering users ready-made, high-quality sources for AI-driven research and learning.
Startups Cognition Acquires Windsurf After Google's Talent Raid Left it Gutted By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025 Cognition, maker of AI coding agent Devin, is acquiring Windsurf after Google hired away the startup's CEO and co-founder in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire deal.
Amazon Amazon takes on GitHub Copilot with Kiro, an IDE that Goes Beyond "Vibe Coding" By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025 Amazon launched Kiro, an AI-powered IDE that tackles "vibe coding" chaos by adding formal specs and automated hooks to bridge the gap between quick AI prototypes and production-ready systems.
Military & Defense Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI just scored the DoD’s Biggest AI Deal Yet By Chris McKay • Jul 14, 2025 The Pentagon’s Chief Digital and AI Office has inked prototype contracts worth up to $200 million apiece with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI to push frontier AI tools directly into defense workflows.
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
OpenAI Inside OpenAI's Security Lockdown: Fingerprint Scanners and Offline Computers By Chris McKay • Jul 8, 2025
Microsoft Healthcare Research Microsoft's MAI-DxO Crushes Doctors at Medical Diagnosis while Cutting Costs By Chris McKay • Jun 30, 2025
Meta Meta Goes All-In on ‘Superintelligence’ with Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang at the Helm By Chris McKay • Jun 30, 2025
Google Biotech & Health Research DeepMind Launches AlphaGenome to Better Understand Gene Regulation By Chris McKay • Jun 26, 2025
Meta Court Sides with Meta: Training AI on Books Ruled Legal Under Fair Use By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025
Google Gemini Google Launches Gemini CLI, an open source AI Agent in your terminal By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025
Enterprise AI Airtable Bets Big on AI Agents with Omni, Reboots as an ‘AI-Native’ App Platform By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025
Healthcare Venture Capital Startups Abridge Raises $300M Series E at $5.3B Valuation By Chris McKay • Jun 25, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Legal AI Upstart Harvey Raises $300 Million, Rockets to a $5 Billion Valuation By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025
Startups Research Databricks Co-founder Launches Laude Institute, Stakes His Own $100 Million By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025
Apptronik Robotics Apptronik Spins off Elevate Robotics to Build "Superhuman" Industrial Robots By Chris McKay • Jun 24, 2025
