Anthropic and OpenAI’s aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.
Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
The four-year-old firm’s latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
Meta’s StoryKit app is only available in certain regions while the company tests how parents react to it.
OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.
Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.
AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify, Netflix, YouTube, and TikTok to become all-purpose entertainment destinations instead.
Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory
Sila’s fresh $300 million round will help it make enough of its silicon-carbon anode material to power more than 100,000 EVs.
Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking
The acquisition — Einride’s first as a publicly traded company — will expand its EV-charging ecosystem as it works to scale its electric trucking business.
Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs
The new leasing program is a big change for the hardware company, and comes as it looks to raise prices on many of its products.
Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
New data centers built through 2033 could consume as much electricity as India uses today.