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Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life

The founder of OpenAI and the designer behind the iPhone are teaming up on a gadget that they promise to ship out “faster than any company” ever has. What could go wrong?...

May 28, 2025

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to join this AI startup backed by Google, Amazon and Microsoft

Reed Hastings, Netflix's co-founder, has joined Anthropic's board of directors, appointed by its Long Term Benefit Trust. Hastings brings extensive te...

May 28, 2025

Elon Musk Tried to Block Sam Altman’s Big AI Deal in the Middle East

Musk warned those involved that President Trump wouldn’t bless the OpenAI data-center project in Abu Dhabi unless his xAI company was included in the deal, according to people familiar with the matter...

May 28, 2025

Tesla and xAI merger possible, predicts Musk biographer Isaacson

Walter Isaacson, biographer of Elon Musk, suggested in an interview on CNBC that a merger between Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) and xAI, Musk’s privately held combination of his artificial intelligence star...

May 28, 2025

Toncoin Soars Amid Telegram Musk xAI Deal, $1.5 Billion Bond Sale Report

The Telegram-linked altcoin rose after a report that Telegram is courting investors such as BlackRock as the firm aims to raise $1.5 billion....

May 28, 2025

Former Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Joins Board of AI Company Anthropic

Reed Hastings, the former CEO of Netflix that now serves as the streamer’s chairman, has been appointed to the board of directors of Anthropic, the AI company announced on Wednesday. Hastings has expe...

May 28, 2025

Instacart appoints business chief Chris Rogers its new CEO

May 28 (UPI) -- Instacart named Chris Rogers as its new CEO Wednesday, weeks after CEO Fidju Simo announced her departure for OpenAI. The grocery delivery company appointed Rogers, who had served as c...

May 28, 2025

Bluevine Partners With Stripe to Launch Invoicing and Payment Links for Small Businesses

Bluevine, the largest digital banking platform for small businesses in the U.S.*, today announced the launch of Invoicing and Payment Links. These new features allow Bluevine customers to create and s...

May 28, 2025

Ripple CEO donates ‘skull of Satoshi’ in surprise peace offering

Amid such intense rivalry, Brad Garlinghouse, the billionaire CEO of the blockchain tech and payments firm Ripple, has extended an olive branch to bridge the gap between different crypto communities....

May 28, 2025

Cerebras Beats NVIDIA Blackwell in Llama 4 Maverick Inference

Nvidia announced that 8 Blackwell GPUs in a DGX B200 could demonstrate 1,000 tokens per second (TPS) per user on Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick. Today, the same independent benchmark firm Artificial Analysis...

May 28, 2025

Telegram strikes $300M+ deal with xAI for Grok Integration

Telegram and Elon Musk’s xAI have reached a financial agreement to bring xAI’s chatbot, Grok, to the instant messaging platform. Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of Telegram, confirmed the news via posts ...

May 28, 2025

Duke Partners with OpenAI to Expand Suite of Secure, Duke-Managed AI Services

Duke University, in partnership with OpenAI, an artificial intelligence company, is launching a pilot program next week that provides free, secure access to ChatGPT-4o for students, faculty, and staff...

May 28, 2025

Elon Musk's xAI partners with messaging app Telegram in $300 million Grok deal

Elon Musk's startup xAI is paying the Dubai-based messaging platform Telegram $300 million to roll out its Grok artificial intelligence chatbot, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced in a post on Wednesd...

May 28, 2025

Apple rejected over 1.9 million apps submitted to App Store in 2024

Apple’s annual fraud analysis report comes on the heels of Epic Games’ Fortnite returning to the App Store after a protracted legal battle....

May 28, 2025

Databricks competitor Chalk raises $50 million series A

By Anna Tong SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Artificial intelligence infrastructure startup Chalk said Wednesday it had raised a $50 million Series A funding round, valuing the company at $500 million. Felic...

May 28, 2025

For the first time, Epic's State of Unreal will take place during Unreal Fest, with presentations from CEO Tim Sweeney and more

This State of Unreal show will include presentations from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, executive vice president Saxs Persson, director of creator relations Hannah Lowry, vice president and general manager of...

May 28, 2025

Ripple News: Analyst Projects XRP Price Could Hit $10 After Pullback

XRP price may be preparing for a sharp upward move, according to Dennis Liu, a well-known investor and host of the VirtualBacon podcast. In his latest market an...

May 28, 2025

Breaking: Telegram Partners with Elon Musks’s xAI, TON Price Jumps 23%

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announces a strategic collaboration with Elon Musk's xAI to bring Grok AI to the messenger users....

May 28, 2025

Brad Garlinghouse Calls For Peace As Ripple Makes Donation To Bitcoin Community

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has called for peace between BTC, XRP and other crypto communities following the 'Skull of Satoshi' donation....

May 28, 2025

Neuralink's $600M Brainwave and the Spinning SpaceX Starship: A Week in the Whirlwind of Tech

Meanwhile, over at SpaceX, the ninth Starship test flight reached for the stars and ended up spinning like my brain on a Monday morning. The mission saw the Starship separate from its Super Heavy boos...

May 28, 2025

S&P Global Expands Collaboration with Databricks with the addition of S&P Capital IQ Pro datasets via Delta Sharing

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) announced today the addition of several S&P Capital IQ Pro datasets available in Databricks. Powered by Databricks Delta Sharing, this enhanced collaboration between S&P Global...

May 28, 2025

Telegram, Musk's XAI Partner to Distribute Grok to Messaging App's Users

(Reuters) -Telegram CEO Pavel Durov said on Wednesday its messaging app and Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI have agreed to a partnership to distribute Grok to its more than billion use...

May 28, 2025

NewsBriefs - Telegram partners with Elon Musk's xAI for one-year deal to distribute Grok to its billion users

Telegram has entered into a one-year partnership with xAI to integrate and distribute the Grok platform to its user base exceeding one...

May 28, 2025

The Download: the story of OpenAI, and making magnesium

Plus: the US state department is weighing up vetting the social media accounts of overseas student visa applicants...

May 28, 2025

AI talent war: OpenAI, Google and xAI battle for superstar AI talent, shelling out millions

Recruiting top AI talent has escalated to professional athlete levels, with some companies offering yearly compensation packages hitting $20 million....

May 28, 2025

Move over, OpenAI! Opera Neon is a new AI browser that can surf the web and even build games while you sleep

But there’s more to it than that. With Neon, the Norwegian browser company is keen to build a one-stop shop for basically any sort of AI interactions — be it chatting to an AI agent or even getting it...

May 28, 2025

Konami’s new game is free on Epic Games Store within a week of release

Konami has made a surprising move as its brand-new title, Deliver At All Costs, is available completely free on the Epic Games Store just a week after its release on May 22, 2025....

May 28, 2025

Anthropic makes web search free for all Claude AI users, begins voice beta testing

With voice, web access, and more capable models now reaching free-tier users, the company is inching closer to parity with rivals like OpenAI and Google...

May 28, 2025

Former OpenAI VP says human taste will matter more in the world where AI is making slop

Even with everything that AI is capable of doing, there’s one thing it still can’t do properly, i.e., think and feel like a human. Krithika Shankarraman, former VP of marketing at OpenAI, believes — i...

May 28, 2025

Anduril Industries UK and Archer team up to test dual-use eVTOL cargo aircraft

Together, Anduril and its partners will explore civil and defence applications in the UK using Archer’s Midnight eVTOL aircraft. This includes explorations for Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) oper...

May 28, 2025

Anthropic Future-Proofs New AI Model With Rigorous Safety Rules

Anthropic’s AI Safety Level 3 protections add a filter and limited outbound traffic to prevent anyone from stealing the entire model weights....

May 28, 2025

Free ChatGPT Plus for all UAE residents? Here's what we know about OpenAI's viral deal

UAE becomes the first country to offer nationwide access to OpenAI's technology, a statement by the AI company said....

May 28, 2025