- Apple, Nvidia Are in Talks to Invest in OpenAI (WSJ)…Financing would value OpenAI at more than $100 billion
- OpenAI said on Thursday that ChatGPT now has more than 200 million weekly active users — twice as many as it had last November.
- GitHub Copilot competitor Codeium raises $150M at a $1.25B valuation
- Generative AI coding startup Magic lands $320M investment from Eric Schmidt, Atlassian and others
- “…Amazon’s revamped Alexa due for release in October ahead of the U.S. holiday season will be powered primarily by Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models, rather than its own AI, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters…Amazon plans to charge $5 to $10 a month for its new “Remarkable” version of Alexa…”
- Gmail users on Android can now chat with Gemini about their emails
- Day in the Life of a Developer With Google’s Gemini Code Assist: Part 1
- Amazon Q: “…The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer-days to just a few hours. We estimate this has saved us the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work…”
- The rise and fall of OpenSea
- Lego plans to make half the plastic in bricks from renewable materials by 2026
- Midjourney says it’s ‘getting into hardware’
- Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
- Intuitive Machines wins $116.9M contract for a moon mission in 2027
- Intel is looking for ways to save its business…The company plans to reduce capital expenditures by over $10 billion in 2025