Intel Chips Intel unveils Panther Lake, first Core Ultra on 18A Process By Chris McKay • Oct 9, 2025 Intel begins production of Panther Lake processors on its 18A process in Arizona, marking a technical milestone for the struggling chipmaker even as fundamental questions about its foundry strategy remain unanswered.
Google Figma taps Google’s Gemini for Faster, Enterprise-Ready AI Inside its Design Platform By Chris McKay • Oct 9, 2025 Figma is integrating Google’s Gemini models and Imagen 4 to accelerate AI image generation and editing across its platform, emphasizing lower latency and enterprise controls.
Microsoft Enterprise AI Copilot Now Built Into Microsoft 365 Apps — No Extra License Needed By Chris McKay • Oct 1, 2025 Microsoft has completed the rollout of Copilot Chat to all Microsoft 365 Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote), now bundling it at no extra charge for most users.
Startups Venture Capital Periodic Labs launches with $300M to build an “AI scientist” By Chris McKay • Sep 30, 2025 Periodic Labs has raised $300 million from a16z, DST, NVentures, Accel, Bezos, Schmidt, Dean, and others to build autonomous labs and “AI scientists” aimed at accelerating discovery in the physical sciences.
OpenAI Sora OpenAI launches Sora 2 — and a TikTok-style app to use it By Chris McKay • Sep 30, 2025 OpenAI released Sora 2, a more physically accurate video-and-audio generator, and a new invite-only iOS app that lets people create and remix short AI videos—complete with verified “cameos” of themselves—starting in the US and Canada.
OpenAI Ecommerce OpenAI launches in-chat Shopping for ChatGPT, Partners with Stripe on Open-Source Payment Protocol By Chris McKay • Sep 30, 2025
Anthropic Claude Anthropic Says Claude Sonnet 4.5 Is the World's Best Coding Model By Chris McKay • Sep 30, 2025
AI Policy Gov. Newsom Signs SB 53, Establishing AI Safety Reporting Requirements By Chris McKay • Sep 29, 2025
NVIDIA Chips China China just Banned its Tech Giants from Buying NVIDIA Chips By Chris McKay • Sep 17, 2025
Google Learn Your Way: Google's New AI Transforms Static Textbooks Into Interactive, Personalized Lessons By Chris McKay • Sep 16, 2025
OpenAI GPT-5-Codex Arrives with Deeper IDE, GitHub, and Cloud Integration By Chris McKay • Sep 16, 2025
Venture Capital Startups TwinMind Aims to Be Your “Second Brain” — Raises $5.7M and Announces Breakthrough Speech Model By Chris McKay • Sep 10, 2025
NVIDIA Chips NVIDIA Unveils Rubin CPX: A GPU Designed Specifically for Massive AI Context Windows By Chris McKay • Sep 10, 2025
Microsoft Anthropic Microsoft is Bringing Anthropic's Claude to Office 365 Copilot By Chris McKay • Sep 10, 2025
Grammarly Adds AI Writing Support for Spanish, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese By Chris McKay • Sep 9, 2025
Anthropic Judge Pumps the Brakes on Anthropic's Record $1.5B Book Piracy Settlement By Chris McKay • Sep 8, 2025
Startups Venture Capital Cognition AI Raises $400 Million at a $10.2 Billion Valuation By Chris McKay • Sep 8, 2025
Anthropic Anthropic's $1.5 Billion Copyright Settlement Is a Pyrrhic Victory for Authors By Chris McKay • Sep 5, 2025
OpenAI Research AI Hallucinations Are a Test-Taking Problem, Says OpenAI By Chris McKay • Sep 5, 2025
