A new AI research lab called Flapping Airplanes has launched with $180 million in seed funding from major venture capital firms including Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index. The lab aims to develop less data-hungry trai...
Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will begin shipping new AI models and products in 2025, with a focus on agentic commerce tools leveraging the company's access to personal user data. Meta's capital expenditures are pr...
Anthropic is raising its venture capital funding target from $10 billion to $20 billion due to strong investor demand, which would value the AI company at $350 billion. The company, known for its Claude AI assistant and...
Yann LeCun has left Meta to found AMI Labs, a startup focused on developing 'world models' that understand the physical world rather than relying on language-based AI approaches. The company, with Alex LeBrun as CEO, aim...
Google DeepMind has hired the CEO and approximately seven engineers from voice AI startup Hume AI through a licensing agreement, aiming to improve Gemini's voice features with emotional intelligence capabilities. This "a...
In 2025, global consumer spending on non-game mobile apps exceeded game spending for the first time, reaching $85 billion (21% YoY increase), largely driven by generative AI applications. AI app revenue tripled to over $...
Non-technical users are increasingly building their own "micro apps" or "fleeting apps" for personal use using AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT, which allow them to describe desired functionality in natural language. The...
Three top executives abruptly left Mira Murati's Thinking Machines lab to join OpenAI, with two more departures expected soon. Simultaneously, Anthropic recruited Andrea Vallone, a senior safety researcher specializing i...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch of Meta Compute, a new initiative to significantly expand the company's AI infrastructure with plans to build tens of gigawatts of energy capacity this decade and hundreds of...
CES 2026 demonstrated a significant industry pivot from software-based AI (chatbots and image generators) to "physical AI" and robotics applications. Major demonstrations included Boston Dynamics' redesigned Atlas humano...
