Meta acquires robotics AI startup as it makes the push into humanoid machines
Meta bought Assured Robot Intelligence (ARI) and says the team will bolster its work on AI for robot control and self-learning.
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Meta says usage of its business AI across messaging apps has grown 10x since the start of the year as it expands access and lays groundwork for monetization.
The longtime partnership is becoming less exclusive: OpenAI can ship products on other clouds, while Microsoft’s revenue share now runs to 2030 with caps.
Uber is expanding beyond rides and eats with in-app hotel booking plus a bundle of travel features, and the company says agentic coding tools helped cut development time.
The new YouTube experiment blends video results with AI-generated summaries and follow-up Q&A, initially limited to U.S. Premium users.
The agreement highlights a growing shift toward CPUs and custom silicon for running AI agents after models are trained.
The company said it plans to reduce headcount by about 10% and keep investing heavily in AI infrastructure.
Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran who helped build the Apple Watch, AirPods, and Vision Pro, is expected to push AI-powered devices rather than competing directly with frontier model labs.
The layoffs, effective May 20, will eliminate roughly 10% of Meta's global headcount alongside 6,000 open roles, as the company funnels billions into AI infrastructure.
Alphabet will inject $10 billion immediately at a $380 billion valuation, with $30 billion more contingent on Anthropic hitting performance benchmarks.
Workers whose combined age and years of service at Microsoft total 70 or more are eligible for the early retirement package, which covers up to 7% of the company's domestic workforce.
At its annual Las Vegas conference, Google consolidated its AI products under a unified enterprise agent brand and announced a $750 million fund to help cloud partners sell AI agents to businesses.
The deal includes a $5 billion upfront commitment plus $20 billion tied to milestones, and requires Anthropic to spend $100 billion on AWS over the next decade.
The 16 percent reduction in Snap's global workforce is expected to save more than $500 million annually by the second half of 2026, as AI now generates more than 65 percent of new code at the company.
Snap's AR-focused hardware subsidiary Specs deepened its hardware relationship with Qualcomm as the company simultaneously cut 16 percent of its workforce to fund a more focused bet on AI-enabled consumer devices.
Internal investor documents reveal ChatGPT's early ad pilot crossed $100 million in annualized revenue within six weeks, with projections scaling to $11 billion by 2027 and $53 billion by 2029.
The cumulative commitment cements Mississippi as one of the largest sites of AI infrastructure investment in the United States, with new campuses and a 616-megawatt renewable energy buildout.
The experimental app runs speech recognition entirely on-device without a subscription, competing directly with Wispr Flow and other AI transcription tools.
The three tech giants are committing to gigawatts of gas generation capacity to feed insatiable AI energy demand, raising questions about long-term resource and climate exposure.
Elon Musk's aerospace company, internally codenamed 'Project Apex,' has lined up 21 underwriting banks for what would be the largest IPO in history — more than triple Saudi Aramco's 2019 record.
Oracle employees across the US, India, Canada, and Mexico received termination emails on March 31, as the company redirects billions toward AI cloud infrastructure at the cost of its headcount.
The investment, announced following a meeting between Brad Smith and Thailand's prime minister, combines cloud infrastructure construction with programs to upskill 150,000 Thai workers.
Mark Gurman's Power On newsletter reveals Apple is reframing its AI strategy around platform ownership rather than model development, while paying rare bonuses to retain iPhone designers.
Wall Street's willingness to extend a 12-month, unsecured $40 billion loan to SoftBank implies that lenders expect OpenAI to go public before the debt comes due.
Winter testing of the VW ID.EVERY1 using Rivian's software and electrical architecture has cleared a contractual milestone, bringing total Volkswagen investment in Rivian past $4 billion.
The iPhone maker will let ChatGPT, Gemini, and other third-party models plug directly into Siri, reframing Apple as an AI platform rather than a single-model gatekeeper.
Meta says its new AI enforcement systems detect twice the adult sexual solicitation content and reduce error rates by more than 60 percent compared to human review teams, while flagging around 5,000 scam attempts daily.
The Chinese tech giant's new agentic business tool, currently in invitation-only testing, can autonomously handle document editing, meeting transcriptions, and research tasks across a unified interface.
The British AI infrastructure company's $2 billion raise adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board, positioning it for a potential 2026 IPO with OpenAI and Microsoft as anchor customers.
The job reductions will affect divisions across the company and may begin this month, with some cuts targeting roles Oracle expects AI to make redundant.
The MacBook Neo uses Apple's A18 Pro mobile processor — a first for any Mac — targeting Chromebook and Windows users with a breakthrough entry price.
Mobile World Congress kicked off with device makers showcasing on-device AI chips, foldables, and a functional robot phone with an autonomous tracking camera.
The new MacBook Air doubles base storage to 512GB and gains Wi-Fi 7, while the MacBook Pro gains M5 Pro and M5 Max chips with larger base storage.
Jack Dorsey announced Block will slash more than 4,000 jobs — nearly halving its headcount — citing AI-driven automation, and predicted most companies will make comparable structural changes within a year.