Sources: Perplexity is seeking funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its fundraising round in July 2025 and $520M in January 2024
But Not Only — An AI-Centric Bunch Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai : Gemini 90%, GPT-5 79% — DeepSeek retreats to Nvidia; Google turns on memory Chaitanya Kohli / MEDIANAMA : From Defender to Buyer: Wh...
Reddit says it will block the Internet Archive from indexing every page but its homepage, after catching AI companies scraping its data from the Wayback Machine
it was illegally collected by AI companies Andrew Nusca / Fortune : Ford's new EV strategy includes $2 billion U.S. investment Amanda Yeo / Mashable : Reddit is blocking Wayback Machine from archiving...
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
Meta defines the types of AI systems that it deems too risky to release, including ones capable of aiding in cybersecurity, chemical, and biological attacks
here's what that means Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : Meta May Restrict Access to High-Risk AI Following Misuse of LLaMA Models Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Meta won't release high-risk AI models—but ...
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month plan with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, and more, plus an o1 version that uses more compute for better responses
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1 Alan Velasco / HotHardware : OpenAI Unveils A Turbocharged $200 ChatGPT Pro Tier For AI Power Users Reece Rogers / Wired : Here's What OpenAI's $200 Monthly ChatGPT Pro Subscr...
OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Search to let paid users search for timely information using GPT-4o, after testing the feature in July 2024, a direct challenge to Google
and I'm shocked by the results Anthony Cuthbertson / The Independent : OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a search engine Hayden Field / CNBC : OpenAI launches ChatGPT search, competing with Google and Microso...
The European Court of Justice rules against Google, keeping a 2017 decision for a €2.4B fine for Google abusing monopoly power to crush rival shopping services
and an existential crisis Verdict : Apple and Google lose EU court battles over combined $17bn Tom Jowitt / Silicon UK : Google Must Pay €2.4bn Fine, EU Court Rules Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : Google Fai...
Apple unveils Apple Intelligence for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, with text and image generation across apps, cross-app task orchestration, App Intents, and more
Apple soon will be taking a huge bite … Aman Gupta / Livemint : Is Apple Intelligence coming to your iPhone, iPad or Mac? Check full list of compatible devices Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac : There's an ...
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market
How to use, top features, more Moneycontrol : Jio Financial Services launches ‘JioFinance’ app in beta version Jio Financial Services Ltd. : Jio Financial Services Ltd. unveils “JioFinance” … Business...
Jio Financial Services, part of Reliance, launches the JioFinance app to provide digital banking, bill payments, and other services in a crowded Indian market
How to use, top features, more Moneycontrol : Jio Financial Services launches ‘JioFinance’ app in beta version Business Today : Jio Financial launches beta version of JioFinance app; UPI, digital bank...