04_meta_spark_pricing.md
Mark Zuckerberg spent the day before the launch telling anyone who would listen that Meta’s new model would be the cheapest serious option on the market. On July 10, the…
03_altman_microsoft_tokens.md
The question came from the audience on July 9, and Sam Altman paused before answering: with compute and memory costs climbing, how does OpenAI protect its margins? The chief executive’s…
01_google_ai_ad_disclosure.md
The checkbox appears at the top of the ad-creation screen, one line above the budget field: “Created or edited with AI.” From July 9, Google will not run a commercial…
Anthropic Brings Claude Cowork to Mobile and Web
The AI coding assistant is leaving the developer’s desk. Anthropic said it is expanding Claude Cowork, its agentic programming tool, from the integrated development environment where it was born to…
SpaceX, ispace Agree on First Commercial Lunar Rideshare on Starship
The payloads will ride to the moon in a ship that has never carried a commercial lunar customer before. SpaceX and Japanese lunar exploration company ispace have agreed that ispace’s…
SpaceX Stock Slides to Post-IPO Low as Hype Cools
The shares that couldn’t stop climbing in June can’t stop falling in July. SpaceX, which completed the largest initial public offering in history on June 12, has seen its stock…
SambaNova Raises $1 Billion at $11 Billion Valuation in AI Chip Bet
The last time SambaNova’s name was in the papers, it was the subject of an acquisition rumor with a price tag of roughly $1.6 billion. On Wednesday, the AI chip…
Microsoft Pushes Its Own AI Models to Cut Costly Dependence
Microsoft is quietly shifting more of its artificial-intelligence workloads onto models it built itself, a move designed to cut its dependence on outside providers and rein in a cost line…
Meta Rolls Out Muse Image Generator as Users Question Training Data
Meta’s newest image generator arrived with a splash and a question mark. The company launched Muse Image this week, an AI tool woven into Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp that…
Blue Origin Raises $10 Billion in First Outside Funding at $130 Billion Valuation
The New York Times reported the numbers first, and the reaction inside the space industry was immediate: after 26 years of being bankrolled by a single billionaire, Blue Origin is…
