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China’s Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets

Moonshot's annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid…

Spotify wants to become the home for AI-generated personal audio

Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify.…

Spotify’s AI DJ now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese

Spotify's AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.…

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken G…

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force n…

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly…

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. …

How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a com…

SpaceX may spend up to $119B on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

The project would be a "multi-phase, next-generation, vertically integrated semiconductor manufactur…

DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trai…

Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, thi…