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Why Is OpenAI Building a Web Browser

OpenAI, the company that ignited the artificial intelligence race with ChatGPT, is now preparing to launch its own AI-powered web browser. According to a recent report from Reuters, the browser is designed to directly challenge Google's market-dominating Chrome and fundamentally change how people interact with the internet. The
Why Is OpenAI Building a Web Browser

How a Niche Memory Chip Dethroned Samsung in the AI Race

Samsung Electronics Co., a titan of the technology world, just saw its operating profit plummet by 56%, a shocking result that wiped billions from its bottom line. The culprit wasn’t slumping smartphone sales or a weak TV market. The crisis stems from its failure to lead in a highly
How a Niche Memory Chip Dethroned Samsung in the AI Race

How Private Credit Is Powering the AI Revolution

Meta is reportedly in talks to raise a staggering $29 billion, not from the public markets, but from private credit giants like Apollo Global Management and KKR. The purpose: to finance its all-in push into artificial intelligence. The move is the latest and one of the most dramatic signs that

With Robotaxis on the Road, What's Behind Tesla's Bet Against Lidar?

Tesla rolled out its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin this week, a landmark moment CEO Elon Musk called the "culmination of a decade of hard work." The deployment of driverless Model Ys carrying paying customers puts Tesla squarely in the autonomous ride-hailing market. But within hours of the
With Robotaxis on the Road, What's Behind Tesla's Bet Against Lidar?

Why Is Apple Eyeing Perplexity? It's About More Than AI

Apple, a company that has historically shied away from mega-acquisitions, is now internally discussing a potential blockbuster deal for the AI search startup Perplexity. This move isn't just about bolstering its AI capabilities, where it is admittedly behind rivals. It's a direct, strategic response to a
Why Is Apple Eyeing Perplexity? It's About More Than AI

Why Is Big Tech 'Acquiring' AI Startups Without Actually Buying Them?

Last week, Meta Platforms Inc. announced a stunning $14.3 billion investment for a 49% stake in Scale AI, one of the key startups providing data-labeling services for training AI models. As part of the deal, Scale’s founder and CEO, 28-year-old Alexandr Wang, will join Meta to work on
Why Is Big Tech 'Acquiring' AI Startups Without Actually Buying Them?

Apple's Research Reveals the Limits of the AI Reasoning Model

For the past year, the AI industry has been captivated by a new frontier: reasoning models. Led by OpenAI's powerful "o-series" and Google's Gemini, these models promised to do more than just generate text; they could "think," breaking down complex problems and
Apple's Research Reveals the Limits of the AI Reasoning Model

What's Behind DeepSeek's R1 Model Upgrade and Its Rapid Ascent?

Just months after triggering a trillion-dollar stock market meltdown with its debut, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is again proving it can compete with Silicon Valley’s best. The latest version of its reasoning model, R1, recently tied for first place with models from Google and Anthropic in a real-time coding
What's Behind DeepSeek's R1 Model Upgrade and Its Rapid Ascent?

Nvidia-backed Startup Bets on Synthetic Data for AI

This week, SandboxAQ, an artificial intelligence startup spun out of Alphabet and backed by Nvidia, released a trove of 5.2 million “synthetic” molecules. The data, generated by computers rather than discovered in a lab, is designed to train other AI models to drastically speed up the discovery of new
Nvidia-backed Startup Bets on Synthetic Data for AI

Why Is Nvidia Courting China Despite US Chip Sanctions?

In a move that Beijing hailed as a “vote of confidence,” US semiconductor giant Nvidia confirmed it will attend China’s flagship supply chain expo in July. The appearance comes even as Washington intensifies a campaign to hobble China’s technological advancement, implementing sweeping export controls aimed squarely at Nvidia’