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Amazon adds OpenAI’s latest models, Codex and AI‑agent tool to Bedrock
Amazon is no longer just a landlord for AI models, it’s now housing OpenAI’s crown jewels.
Netomi raises USD 110M with Accenture, Adobe backing for AI customer service
Netomi's $110 million funding round is almost a footnote. Look at the names writing the checks. Accenture will now embed Netomi's AI directly into its Fortune 100 accounts. Adobe plans to bake the tech into its own software.
Elon Musk testifies in OpenAI trial, referencing USD 38 M early investment
The initial investment was $38 million. The shared vision was grand, even delusional. Now, in a San Francisco federal courtroom, the man who signed that check is testifying about the rupture. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, the company he helped create.
MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab launches, funding over 500 students, and postdocs
Another major computing lab opens its doors this week. The promise, as always, is to redefine the future. But follow the money: the real story is in the checkbook.
Runway raises USD 860M, valued at USD 5.3B, eyes world models after AI video
$860 million is a serious round. For most companies, it's an exit. For Runway, it's a down payment.
White House drafts action to lift Pentagon’s Anthropic risk label
The Pentagon branded Anthropic a supply chain risk. Now the White House is drafting a single document to undo it. This bureaucratic quiet fix aims to resolve a very public fight over what an AI company will, and won't, build for the U.S. military.
Microsoft, OpenAI end pact; OpenAI can now sell on AWS and Google Cloud
Microsoft and OpenAI have torn up their exclusive cloud contract. That fact, reported by VentureBeat AI, is the key: OpenAI can now sell its AI models directly on Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
Nadella: AI success needs intense usage, Cloud hits USD 54.5B, Azure up 40%
Microsoft just posted $82.89 billion. Azure surged 40 percent. Twenty million are paying for Copilot. Yet in the earnings call, CEO Satya Nadella barely lingered on the figures.
Microsoft and OpenAI agree to let OpenAI see other cloud providers
For nearly two years, Microsoft and OpenAI were locked in an embrace so tight it defined the AI arms race. They built their fortress on Azure. Now, they are prying the door open.
China blocks Meta's USD 2 billion acquisition of Singapore‑based Manus
Beijing just flexed its regulatory muscle with surgical precision. Meta's planned $2-3 billion acquisition of the AI startup Manus is dead, officially blocked by Chinese authorities. The target was a specific corporate escape route.
David Silver raises USD 1.1 B to develop Ineffable AI that learns without data
What happens when one of the world’s most celebrated AI researchers vows to give every penny of his fortune to charity, and still convinces investors to hand over $1.1 billion?
OpenAI settles Microsoft dispute, gives AWS exclusive rights to Frontier
Microsoft’s lock on OpenAI is broken. Check an Amazon invoice.
Meta's Muse Spark Handles Visual STEM Queries, Entity Recognition, Localization
Most AI models can describe a picture of a refrigerator. Meta says its new Muse Spark can find the exact part inside it that’s broken. That’s the claim, anyway. The model is engineered from the start to interpret visuals, not just caption them.
Sam Altman’s ‘Our Principles’ post lists five rules on superintelligence power
Sam Altman sees two futures. In one, a few corporations own superintelligence. In the other, everyone does. His new set of principles aims for the second option.
Managers, Architects, and Media Urged to Prepare for Change Amid Hype‑Profit Gap
A familiar, sweeping forecast is back. Managers, architects, and media professionals face imminent disruption. Groundskeepers, construction workers, and hospitality staff do not.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI, sparking legal clash with Sam Altman over its future
For the second time this year, Elon Musk is hauling OpenAI into court. His goal? To unwind the entire operation. A jury in Oakland will hear the case starting late April, deciding if the company abandoned its founding ethos in a quest for profit.
The Vergecast: Tim Cook’s AirPods, Touch Bar legacy, Apple’s next, Xbox returns
Tim Cook is a product guy who sometimes makes bad products. Under his watch, Apple shipped both the AirPods, a category-defining smash hit, and the Touch Bar, a weird and forgettable strip of glass.
Project Maven shifts AI from satellite to drone video imagery
The drone feeds were drowning in data, miles of footage, hours of tedium, and analysts managing to scrutinize as little as 4 percent of what rolled in.
85% of firms run AI agents; 5% trust them to ship, Cisco adds zero‑trust limits
Eighty-five percent of enterprises are running AI agents. Five percent trust them to ship. That gap isn’t a bug, it’s the defining tension of the agentic era.
Microsoft adds ’vibe working’ to Word and Excel; Copilot Agent Mode now default
The ghost in the machine has finally learned to take orders. Microsoft’s Copilot, once a glorified search bar that could only whisper suggestions from the margins of your document, is now seizing the keyboard.
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