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OpenAI Launches Atlas Browser to Challenge Google's Web Dominance
OpenAI has launched Atlas, a new web browser designed around chat-based AI interaction, directly challenging Google Chrome and the traditional search model. With ChatGPT's 800 million weekly users potentially switching t...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Atlas Browser with Integrated AI Agent to Challenge Google Chrome
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered browser for MacOS with other platforms coming soon, featuring integrated ChatGPT functionality, contextual sidebar assistance, and browser history tracking for personalize...
Former OpenAI and Google Brain Researchers Launch AI-Powered Materials Science Startup with $300M
Periodic Labs, founded by OpenAI's Liam Fedus and Google Brain's Ekin Dogus Cubuk, emerged from stealth with a $300 million seed round to automate materials science discovery using AI. The startup combines robotic synthe...
Anthropic Expands Claude Code AI Coding Assistant to Web Platform
Anthropic launched a web-based version of Claude Code, its AI coding assistant that allows developers to create and manage AI coding agents from their browser. The tool, available to Pro and Max subscribers, has grown 10...
Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 4.5: Fast, Cost-Efficient Model for Multi-Agent Deployment
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller AI model that matches Claude Sonnet 4 performance at one-third the cost and over twice the speed. The model achieves competitive benchmark scores (73% on SWE-Bench, 41%...
OpenAI Partners with Broadcom for Custom AI Accelerator Hardware in Multi-Billion Dollar Deal
OpenAI announced a partnership with Broadcom to develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerator hardware to be deployed between 2026 and 2029, potentially costing $350-500 billion. This follows recent major infrastructure...
Google Announces $15 Billion AI Infrastructure Investment in India with 1-Gigawatt Data Center Hub
Google is investing $15 billion over five years to build a 1-gigawatt data center and AI hub in Visakhapatnam, India, marking its largest investment outside the U.S. The facility will offer Google's AI infrastructure inc...
Reflection AI Raises $2B to Build Open-Source Frontier Models as U.S. Answer to DeepSeek
Reflection, founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, raised $2 billion at an $8 billion valuation to build open-source frontier AI models as an American alternative to Chinese labs like DeepSeek. The startup, backe...
OpenAI Plans to Transform ChatGPT into Third-Party App Platform and Operating System
OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, revealed plans to transform ChatGPT from a conversational interface into an operating system-like platform hosting third-party applications, drawing inspiration from how web browser...
OpenAI's Sora Video Generation App Achieves Massive Launch Success, Rivaling ChatGPT Adoption
OpenAI's video-generating app Sora recorded approximately 627,000 iOS downloads in its first week in the U.S. and Canada, nearly matching ChatGPT's first-week performance of 606,000 U.S. downloads. Despite being invite-o...