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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has offered every startup in the current Y Combinator batch $2 million — paid not in cash but in OpenAI tokens — in exchange for equity, a move that could tie hundreds of…
Investor conversations at JPMorgan's annual Boston tech conference have pivoted away from AI model makers like Anthropic and…
At Google I/O, the company unveiled AI agents inside Search and effectively merged it with Gemini — the boldest structural change…
SpaceX — set for what is reportedly the largest IPO in U.S. history in mid-June — will acquire AI coding tool maker Cursor just…
Google has launched a 'Universal Cart' at I/O 2025 that aggregates products from multiple retailers across Search, Gmail, Gemini,…
Google DeepMind is paying $80–90 million to hire more than 20 researchers from Contextual AI — including CEO Douwe Kiela — and…
Microsoft reportedly acknowledges GitHub Copilot has lost ground to Anthropic and Cursor, but is betting that ~100,000 in-house…
Andrej Karpathy — OpenAI co-founder and ex-Tesla AI director — is joining Anthropic, calling the next few years at the LLM…
Rising inference costs at frontier AI labs like Anthropic are reportedly prompting developers to consider open-source…
