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Top Stories Perplexity AI Hit with Class-Action Lawsuit Over Data Sharing with Meta and Google Perplexity AI Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of surreptitiously sharing the personal information of its users with Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google in violation of California privacy laws. As soon
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Top Stories OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Round at $852B Valuation OpenAI announced it closed a record-breaking funding round at a post-money valuation of $852 billion, with the round totaling $122 billion of committed capital, up from the $110 billion figure announced in February. Amazon invested up to $50 billion,
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Top Stories Mistral AI Secures $830M Debt Financing for European Infrastructure Independence French AI startup Mistral has secured $830 million in debt financing. The funds will go towards operating a data center near Paris. The announcement comes as Mistral increasingly invests in building out AI infrastructure. The financing will be
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Top Stories OpenAI Shuts Down Sora Video App After Six Months OpenAI is winding down Sora, the video generation app it launched to much fanfare last year that signaled a bigger push into creative tools and social media. OpenAI is shuttering the standalone app to focus on other priorities, the
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Top Stories Salesforce Launches AI Foundry for Enterprise System-Level AI Development Salesforce AI Research announced AI Foundry on March 26, 2026, an initiative focused on developing transformative AI innovation for enterprise applications. Chief Scientist Silvio Savarese emphasized that "the problems that matter most for businesses don't live
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Top Stories SoftBank Secures Record $40 Billion Loan for OpenAI Investment SoftBank Group announced Friday it secured a $40 billion unsecured bridge loan to fund its growing investment in OpenAI, with the facility maturing in March 2027. The loan was arranged by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Mizuho Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui
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Top Stories RAG Systems Reach Enterprise Production Scale March 26, 2026, was a busy day in the RAG space. Fifteen announcements in a single day, spanning platform updates, research findings, partnerships, governance features, and open source releases, shows just how much activity is happening in this part of enterprise AI.
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Top Stories Eli Lilly Launches LillyPod - Pharma's Most Powerful AI Supercomputer Eli Lilly and Company today announced it is building the most powerful supercomputer owned and operated by a pharmaceutical company, in collaboration with NVIDIA. LillyPod was inaugurated Wednesday at a ribbon-cutting in Indianapolis. Computational power that
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Top Stories Oracle Plans Massive 20,000-30,000 Job Cuts to Fund AI Infrastructure Oracle is planning to eliminate thousands of jobs as part of moves to handle a cash crunch from massive AI data center expansion, with cuts potentially affecting 20,000 to 30,000 positions - roughly 12-18%
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Top Stories Tesla Unveils $25 Billion "Terafab" Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility Tesla and SpaceX have unveiled "Terafab," a joint $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, that Elon Musk claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually. It would be the largest semiconductor fab ever
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Top Stories Meta Considers Massive 20% Workforce Reduction to Fund AI Infrastructure Meta is reportedly planning layoffs affecting at least 20% of its workforce - potentially over 15,000 employees - to offset rising AI infrastructure costs projected between $115-135 billion for 2026. The cuts would support Meta's
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Top Stories OpenClaw Reaches ChatGPT-Level Viral Adoption OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant developed by an Austrian software developer, has achieved viral adoption after being unknown just three months ago. The project became the most-starred repository on GitHub in early March, surpassing both React and Linux. While ChatGPT showed consumers AI