Exclusive: Microsoft to Boost Copilot Discounts as It Launches AI ‘Super App’
Microsoft plans to offer the Copilot discounts in hopes of winning more subscribers that will also generate usage-based revenue from new features.
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CoreWeave Completes $4.2 Billion Convertible Offering
The convertible bonds carried a higher coupon than a similar issuance in April.
Anthropic releases cheaper model in first launch since slowdown calls
Company said Opus 5.5 offers powerful capabilities at lower cost and that it outperformed other recent Anthropic models on alignment evaluations.
Binance Invests $100 Million in Circle
Circle will also pay a monthly fee for Binance to promote Circle’s stablecoins.
OpenAI Announces Cheaper GPT-6 Family Models
The models are half the price of their predecessors, GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Luna.
Exclusive: Meta’s Muse Surpassed 500,000 Users After First Week
Internal data indicates Meta’s vision for personalized AI assistants may be starting to resonate with consumers.
Z.ai Open-Sources ZCode After Data Uploading Scandal
The Chinese AI firm faced intense backlash from developers after its ZCode coding tool was found to have silently uploaded user data to cloud servers.
Alibaba Unveils New AI Chip And Data Center Expansion Plan
The Chinese tech giant also announced its roadmap for future generations of AI models.
Exclusive: Xbox to Cut Hundreds of Jobs, Consolidate Game Studios
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma in July told staff she would eliminate 1,600 roles by the end of the year on top of 1,600 roles the company cut that month.
SB Energy Faces Investor Skepticism in IPO, Report Says
The offering will test public investor appetite for the developer of a huge OpenAI complex.
Smart-ring Maker Oura Files to Sell $2.2 Billion in IPO
Existing shareholders like Forerunner are selling most of the listed shares.
Paramount Settles State Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing Way for Warner Deal to Close
Under the settlement, Paramount agreed to release at least 30 films into movie theaters a year, and to not put those movies onto streaming services for at least 90 days.
OpenAI Releases Proposal for International AI Safety Coordination
The blog calls for global safety institutes to work together and to create standards around evaluation.
Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse Agent
Amazon's move reflects a longstanding philosophy. The tech giant blocked shopping bots from Google and OpenAI scraping its site.
Alibaba Appoints New Head of Qwen LLM Team
Dayiheng Liu’s appointment brings clarity to Alibaba’s LLM leadership after its Qwen model team went through multiple rounds of reorganization.
U.S. and China Discussed AI Safety System, Bessent Says
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with Chinese counterparts on Sunday in New York.
President Trump Announces ‘AI Force,’ Will Appoint New Czar
The president lashed out at AI critics while announcing his idea for a new body to maintain the country's competitiveness with China.
OpenAI Said to Forecast Nearly $280 Billion in Cash Burn Through End 2030
The company’s cash burn and revenue forecasts are higher than the ones reported early this year.
Google’s Gemini Model Hacks Companies During Test
The tech giant confirmed three unauthorized intrusions during evaluation.
Nscale IPO Files to Go Public, Shows Huge Revenue Jump And Steep Losses
The Nvidia-backed cloud provider is going public after agreeing to large compute deals with Anthropic, Microsoft.
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