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xAI to Buy $2.8B Turbines, $2B Gas Deal, NAACP Suit

Elon Musk’s AI venture xAI is set to invest $2.8 billion in turbines for its data‑center power, including a $2 billion purchase of mobile gas turbines. The NAACP has sued the company, arguing the poll

Google News Technology · 3mo ago

Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup

At a YC event, Sam Altman announced a $2 million OpenAI token grant to each of the 169 startups, a move that deepens OpenAI’s foothold in the next generation of AI firms. The offer comes as OpenAI tri

TechCrunch · 3mo ago

Xreal Project Aura: Android XR's Maximalist Smartglasses

Xreal previewed Project Aura, its Android XR-powered smartglasses with a 70-degree display, hand-tracking cameras, and a tethered processing puck, at Google I/O ahead of a formal launch later this yea

OpenAI Files IPO, Odds Jump to 83% vs Anthropic

OpenAI is poised to file a confidential IPO as early as this Friday, targeting a September listing, a move confirmed by multiple outlets including the WSJ, CNBC, FT and TechCrunch. The filing sent pre

CNBC · 3mo ago

Anthropic and OpenAI take their beef to the midterm elections

AI giants are turning the 2024 midterm race into a battlefield, with OpenAI‑backed super PAC Leading the Future and Anthropic’s rival spending millions to shape policy. New York Democrat Alex Bores ev

The Verge · 3mo ago

Google Adds AI Remix to YouTube Shorts

Google is rolling out an AI-powered remix tool for YouTube Shorts that uses Gemini Omni to restyle clips — turning them into anime, pixel art, or inserting users directly into other creators' videos.

SpaceX Files for Record IPO on Nasdaq as SPCX

SpaceX filed publicly for what stands to be the largest-ever IPO, choosing Nasdaq under ticker SPCX, with Elon Musk's shares giving him 85.1% of voting power and the S-1 revealing billions in losses a

Google Uses Gemini to Generate Search Ad Descriptions

Google is folding its Gemini AI into Search advertising, generating custom product descriptions for sponsored results and testing new conversational ad formats inside its AI Mode chatbot experience.

OpenAI Targets September IPO, Filing Imminent

OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday, targeting a September public listing and working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley as lead banks.

Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stable Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Stability AI, the creator of Stable Diffusion, unveiled Stable Audio 3.0, a suite of audio generation models trained on licensed data. Its flagship model can compose songs up to six minutes long, a ma

Google News Technology · 3mo ago

Google Cuts AI Ultra to $200, Bundles YouTube Premium

Google overhauled its AI subscription tiers at I/O 2026, cutting the top-tier AI Ultra 20x price from $250 to $199.99 per month and bundling YouTube Premium across its premium plans as it competes wit

Google adds SynthID, C2PA checks to Chrome, Search

Google is embedding SynthID watermark and C2PA provenance checks into Chrome and Search, while OpenAI adds SynthID to its image outputs, marking a high‑stakes test of AI labeling tools against deepfak

GitHub Breach Leaks 3,800 Repos via VS Code Extension

GitHub confirmed that a malicious Visual Studio Code extension installed by an employee exposed roughly 3,800 internal repositories, prompting a ransom demand from the hacker group TeamPCP while assur

OpenAI to file confidential IPO by Friday

OpenAI is set to file a confidential registration for a public offering as early as Friday, with a target listing date in September, a move that has been reported across dozens of outlets.

Google Pushes AI Agents Hard at I/O 2026

Google used I/O 2026 to unveil a sweeping AI agent push — headlined by the consumer-facing Gemini Spark and the Gemini 3.5 model — betting that its scale and deep integration across its own services c

Students Boo AI-Praising Commencement Speakers Nationwide

Students at multiple U.S. universities heckled and booed commencement speakers delivering optimistic pitches about AI, including former Google CEO Eric Schmidt in Arizona, who was shouted down after c

Hacker News · 3mo ago

Google adds AI search bar, Gemini agents Universal Cart

Google’s I/O rollout turns its classic search bar into an AI‑powered all‑in‑one assistant, adding dynamic suggestions, on‑the‑fly summaries, custom agents and a cross‑app Universal Cart. The upgrades

Google Unveils Gemini 3.5 Flash and Omni AI at I/O

Building on earlier coverage of Google’s push to embed Gemini AI across Chrome and Mac, the I/O 2026 keynote unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash as the new default model, introduced the multimodal Gemini Omni f