The A.I. Super Bowl ads showed us that ChatGPT is losing the chatbot wars.
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The AI threat wrecked software stocks. Now financial stocks look next with LPL closing 8% lower
Traders work at the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 10, 2026. NYSE Shares of financial services firms…
Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI
Other recent high-profile xAI departures include general counsel Robert Keele, communications executives Dave Heinzinger and John Stoll, head…
Alphabet to sell rare 100-year bond to fund AI expansion, bookrunner memo shows
Alphabet (GOOGL-Q, GOOG-Q) is set to price a rare 100-year bond, a memo from the lead manager showed,…
Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and…
Alphabet sells bonds worth US$20 billion
Alphabet has sold bonds worth US$20 billion in a seven-part offering, tapping the debt market to fund its…
OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
OpenAI will not use the name “io” for its forthcoming line of AI hardware devices, according to a…
Anthropic closes in on $20B round
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350…
Chinese AI company unveils $173K ‘biometric’ robot built for human companionship
Chinese robotics company DroidUp has created a ‘fully biometric’ robot named ‘Moya’ that’s blurring the lines between science…
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs as sensor consolidation continues
Lidar-maker Ouster has acquired StereoLabs, a company that makes vision-based perception systems for robotics and industrial applications, for…
Can a machine ever love you?
While the concept of romantic love may mean somewhat different things to different people, in recent decades scientists…
Modem closes $4.4-million USD pre-seed round to help developers ship faster
Co-founders from Sentry, Cohere back Toronto startup’s AI product management platform.
Before AI, software developers already had…