DuckDuckGo saw a significant spike in US app installs after Google unveiled a sweeping AI-focused search overhaul at its I/O conference.
By Chris Borden Google DeepMind is acquiring a minority stake in the studio behind the space MMO EVE Online and plans to use the game to test AI models. At the same time, developer CCP Games is buying itself out from its South Korean owner Pearl Abyss for $120 million — less than the $225 million Pearl Abyss paid for the studio in 2018 — and rebranding as Fenris Creations.
By Chris Borden Samsung shares jumped more than 15%, pushing the company’s market capitalization above $1 trillion. That makes Samsung only the second Asian company after TSMC to cross the trillion-dollar mark.
By Chris Borden U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is bringing together leading defense contractors and representatives from Palantir and Anduril to improve interoperability between systems and enable deeper AI integration, Bloomberg reports.
By Alex Rowland Anthropic has doubled the five-hour usage limits for Claude Code across its Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.
By Chris Borden Anthropic has reportedly committed to spending around $200 billion on Google Cloud over the next five years, according to The Information.
By Chris Borden According to the Financial Times, deepseek ai is on the verge of a funding round that could value the Chinese AI lab at around $45 billion. The talks are being led by the state-backed China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund — known as the "Big Fund" — which has previously financed semiconductor companies such as SMIC and Yangtze Memory. Tech conglomerate Tencent is also in discussions to take a stake, four people familiar with the talks told the publication.
By Daniel Mercer OpenAI, together with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA, has developed a new networking protocol called MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection). It is designed to make data transfer between GPUs in large AI supercomputers faster and more stable — and, in particular, to improve AI training performance.
By Chris Borden By 2028, AI systems capable of independently designing and training their own successors — without human involvement — could appear on the market. That's the forecast from Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark.
By Chris Borden The Solana Foundation, in partnership with Google Cloud, has launched Pay.sh — a payment system designed for AI agents. Built on an open standard, the protocol allows agents to discover APIs, access them, and pay for usage in stablecoins on the Solana network.
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