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A Windsurf deal would allow OpenAI to own more of the full-stack coding experience (and it would be its most expensive acquisition to date).

Google's new Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model introduces adjustable "thinking budgets" that let businesses pay only for the reasoning power they need, balancing advanced capabilities with cost efficiency.

Google ramps up the competition in the enterprise data space claiming its AI innovation help it to leapfrog rivals.

New York AI startup 1Fort secures $7.5M in funding to streamline commercial insurance for small businesses with its broker-focused platform that cuts paperwork from hours to minutes.

Spexi is launching the LayerDrone Foundation and its decentralized network aimed at encouraging amateur drone pilots to capture high-res Earth imagery.

At GTC, NVIDIA unveiled major advancements – from the Blackwell Ultra AI platform to advancements in robotics and accelerated computing.

Based on hands-on comparisons and real-world tests, this guide unpacks what happens when you switch from OpenAI to Anthropic or Google’s Gemini and what your team needs to watch for.

OpenAI launches groundbreaking o3 and o4-mini AI models that can manipulate and reason with images, representing a major advance in visual problem-solving and tool-using artificial intelligence.

VoicePatrol is unveiling its real-time AI voice protection technology for game studios to make gaming communities safer.

404-GEN today announced it has become the first decentralized 3D model generation platform to integrate with Unity.

 Infinite Reality is paying $500 million for Touchcast, an agentic AI startup with 70 people. That's the AI boom for ya.

Not all AI scaling strategies are equal. Longer reasoning chains are not sign of higher intelligence. More compute isn't always the answer.

At TED 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced tough questions on AI ethics, artist compensation, and the risks of autonomous agents in a tense interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, revealing new details about OpenAI’s explosive growth and future plans.

Anthropic launches autonomous "agentic" research capability for Claude AI and Google Workspace integration, challenging OpenAI with faster results and enterprise-grade security for knowledge workers.

Moveworks said its AI Agent Marketplace will make it easier for organizations to think of new agentic use cases.

Cohere updated its model Embed 4 so enterprises can make embeddings from multimodal data sources and even longer documents.

Kore.ai announced a strategic partnership with Inception, a division of UAE-based G42, to jointly develop AI-powered products for the enterprise.

Amex GBT CISO David Levin is accelerating AI security, cutting false positives and speeding SOC response to anticipate and shut down threats.

OpenAI slashes GPT-4.1 API prices by up to 75% while offering superior coding performance and million-token context windows, triggering an industry-wide AI pricing war with Anthropic, Google, and xAI.

OpenAI launched a new family of AI models this morning that significantly improve coding abilities while cutting costs, responding directly to growing competition in the enterprise AI market. The San Francisco-based AI company introduced three models — GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano — all available immediately through its API. The new lineup performs better […]

Xaba, a startup building synthetic brains for industrial robots with zero code, announced it has raised $6 million.

Nvidia said it is working with its manufacturing partners to build factories that will produce AI supercomputers in the U.S.

Salesforce reveals how AI now writes 20% of its code but developers aren't vanishing — they're evolving into strategic architects who orchestrate AI systems while focusing on customer needs and business value.