Alphabet shares started 2025 with investors questioning whether Google could keep up with ChatGPT maker OpenAI in the AI race. By year’s end, the stock had notched its best performance since 2009. Google got its AI mojo back. Much of that was driven out of DeepMind, the British company Google acquired in 2014 for around…
Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI sent a letter Thursday to investors and banking partners warning that it expects Elon Musk to make “deliberately outlandish, attention-grabbing…
Riccardo Milani | Afp | Getty Images Wikimedia announced new deals with several artificial intelligence companies in a blog post on Thursday, including Amazon, Meta and Perplexity, as part of the company’s 25th anniversary. Through the new partnerships under Wikimedia Enterprise, companies will pay Wikipedia to use its data to help develop and train AI…
A logo of CLOUDFLARE sits outside the company’s house on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, January 20, 2025. Yves Herman | Reuters Cloudflare is acquiring artificial intelligence data marketplace Human Native, the company said Thursday, as it expands its push to develop transactions…
In this photo illustration, a person holds a smartphone showing Ani, an anime-style virtual assistant character featured in the Grok 4 AI chatbot developed by xAI, with the Grok logo visible in the background on July 16, 2025 in Chongqing, China. Cheng Xin | Getty Images Elon Musk‘s xAI is now facing an investigation in…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Oculus Touch controllers during the Oculus Connect 3 event in San Jose, California, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images A little over four years after Mark Zuckerberg changed Facebook’s name to Meta, reflecting his…
OpenAI has acquired the health-care technology startup Torch, the company announced on Monday. OpenAI purchased Torch for roughly $60 million, according to a source familiar with the deal who asked not to be named because the details are confidential. Torch was building a “unified medical memory” for artificial intelligence that aimed to bring a patient’s…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California on May 20, 2025. Camille Cohen | Afp | Getty Images Google parent company Alphabet has become the fourth member of the $4 trillion club. Alphabet shares popped 1% Monday, after Apple said it would use Google’s…
The Google logo displayed on a smartphone alongside a shopping cart. Rafael Henrique | SOPA Images | LightRocket via Getty Images As retailers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence tools to lure shoppers and run key parts of their business, Google wants to make sure it’s in the center of the action. At the kickoff of…
SAN FRANCISCO — Daniela Amodei has an energy that’s hard to place — warm, unhurried, immediately present. She swept into a sunlit room on the ground floor of Anthropic‘s headquarters in December, sat down, and immediately apologized for her mug. “Is my, like, gigantic novelty mug going to be distracting if I have it?” she…
