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Claude creator Anthropic reportedly hits $350 billion valuation as it raises another $10 billion

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, is raising $10 billion at a valuation of $350 billion - nearly double its $183 billion valuation from just four months ago. Singapore's sovereign ...
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Elon Musk's xAI closes 20 billion dollar funding round

Elon Musk's AI company xAI has raised $20 billion in a Series E financing round, with investors including Valor Equity Partners, Fidelity, the Qatar Investment Authority, and strategic partners NVIDIA ...
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Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics models will power Boston Dynamics' Atlas for industrial tasks

Boston Dynamics and Google Deepmind are joining forces to bring advanced AI to humanoid robots, announcing a strategic partnership at CES 2026 that will integrate Google's Gemini robotics models into ...
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Project Gumdrop: OpenAI's first AI gadget could send handwritten notes to ChatGPT

OpenAI has reportedly shifted production of its first AI hardware device from Luxshare to Foxconn. The company wants to avoid manufacturing in China, according to Taiwanese business newspaper Economic ...
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Kling 2.6 adds voice control and motion upgrades as AI video tools race toward realism

Kuaishou has updated its AI video generator Kling 2.6 with native audio features, voice control, and improved motion control. Users can now precisely set spoken content, upload their own voices, and ...
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GPT-5.2 lands to top Google's Gemini 3 in the AI benchmark game just four weeks after GPT-5.1

OpenAI has launched GPT-5.2 in three versions—Instant, Thinking, and Pro—claiming it is the first AI model to achieve expert-level performance in knowledge work tasks. The most notable progress is in ...
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OpenAI insists its shopping suggestions shouldn't be seen as advertising

Paid users of ChatGPT recently saw a prompt asking them to connect their account with Target for shopping, which some interpreted as an advertisement. But an OpenAI product manager denied that any ...
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Altman memo: new OpenAI model coming next week, outperforming Gemini 3

OpenAI is rushing to launch a new reasoning model that outperforms Google’s Gemini 3 in internal tests. Other projects like ads and AI agents are delayed so the company can focus on improving ChatGPT ...
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DeepseekMath-V2 is Deepseek's latest attempt to pop the US AI bubble

Chinese AI start-up Deepseek has introduced DeepseekMath-V2, an AI model that achieves gold medal-level results in the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). The model can evaluate and iteratively ...
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Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

Alibaba's Qwen3-VL, launched in September, outperforms GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on benchmarks that require solving math questions using images, analyzing videos, and understanding documents. The ...
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Google Cloud aims to capture ten percent of Nvidia's annual revenue with TPUs

Google is in talks with Meta and several other companies about letting them run Google's TPU chips inside their own data centers, according to a report from The Information. One person familiar with ...
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As Google pulls ahead, OpenAI's comeback plan is codenamed 'Shallotpeat'

According to an internal memo from The Information, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned staff that Google's recent AI progress with Gemini 3 could create "temporary economic headwinds" for the company, as ...