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Top Story SpaceX Acquires xAI in Historic $1.25 Trillion Merger Elon Musk combined SpaceX and xAI in a deal that values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion, creating the largest merger in history. The record-setting transaction values SpaceX at $1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, according to
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Top Story OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform that helps enterprises build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can do real work, marking its most aggressive move into the corporate world yet. "What we're fundamentally doing is basically transitioning agents into true AI co-workers," said Barret
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Top Story OpenAI announced its new enterprise platform called Frontier on Thursday, designed to help companies build, deploy and manage AI agents across their organizations. The platform acts as an intelligence layer that connects disparate systems and data within enterprises, supporting both OpenAI-built agents and third-party tools. CFO Sarah Friar
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Top Story OpenAI launched Frontier, a new enterprise platform designed to help companies build, deploy, and manage AI agents, marking the company's most aggressive push into corporate markets. The platform connects enterprise systems - data warehouses, CRM tools, and internal apps - so AI agents can work with
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Top Story Google Parent Doubles Down on AI with Record $180 Billion Infrastructure Bet Alphabet announced its 2026 capital expenditures would land in a range of $175 billion-$185 billion, roughly double the $91.4 billion the company invested in 2025. Analysts tracked by Bloomberg expected Alphabet, Google's
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Top Story Waymo, the Alphabet-owned autonomous vehicle company, has raised $16 billion as it plans to grow its fleet of driverless taxicabs this year to more than a dozen new cities internationally, including London and Tokyo. Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital led the funding round, which now
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Top Story Waabi secured the largest funding round in Canadian history with a $750 million Series C round co-led by Khosla Ventures and G2 Venture Partners, plus up to $250 million more from Uber tied to robotaxi deployment milestones. The Toronto-based autonomous driving company, founded in 2021, is pioneering what
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Top Story Software companies are facing their first major reckoning of the AI era as investors demand proof of profitability from AI features. After two years of betting on AI integration promises, the first earnings season of 2026 has triggered a violent rotation away from general software providers toward hardware
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Top Story The "Show Me the Money" Era Arrives for Enterprise AI 2026 is emerging as the "show me the money" year for AI, as enterprises move from experimental budgets to demanding measurable returns on their AI investments, with business leaders at Davos focusing more than
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Top Story China's Ministry of Commerce announced it will investigate Meta's $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus to assess its compliance with export control laws. Meta acquired Singapore-based Manus last month as the U.S. tech giant looks to integrate advanced automation into its consumer
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Top Story Google Launches Revolutionary AI Browsing Agent in Chrome Google rolled out major updates to Gemini in Chrome yesterday, transforming the browser from a passive tool to an active agent layer with "auto browse" capabilities that can perform multi-step tasks like researching options, filling out forms, and
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Top Story Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has ushered in 2026 with a new technical paper that proposes a rethink of the fundamental architecture used to train foundational AI models. The paper introduces what DeepSeek calls "Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections," or mHC, a training approach designed to scale models without them