Mistral AI used its first-ever company conference in Paris to announce a major expansion into industrial engineering, a new data center south of the French capital, and a rebranding of its consumer assistant. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the moves collectively signal the three-year-old startup’s ambition to become the preferred AI provider for enterprises …
Canadian AI company Cohere has unveiled Command A+, a large language model designed for complex reasoning, document processing, and autonomous workflows. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model is available for free on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, making it the first Cohere model that anyone can use, modify, and commercialize without …
Amazon MGM Studios has launched a new initiative to fund and produce AI-assisted TV shows and movies. The studio announced the GenAI Creators’ Fund, which provides grants and access to AI production tools to filmmakers, digital creators, and tech startups. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that three animated series have already been greenlit for Prime …
Anthropic has raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, pushing its post-money valuation to $965 billion. The San Francisco company has now surpassed OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup. OpenAI’s last valuation stood at $730 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. A broad …
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, a new version of its most advanced publicly available AI model. The update arrives just 41 days after its predecessor, Opus 4.7, and brings measurable improvements in coding performance, agentic tasks, and — notably — honesty. The model is available immediately at the same price as before. Standard pricing …
ElevenLabs has launched Music v2, a new version of its AI music-generation model that can switch between genres within a single track. Ivan Mehta reports for TechCrunch that the model is built to handle complex vocals and compositions, arriving nearly ten months after the company released its first music-generation model. According to ElevenLabs, the model …
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has defended his company’s AI-driven transformation of Search while acknowledging growing publisher concerns about vanishing web traffic. Nilay Patel posts for The Verge’s Decoder podcast an in-depth conversation with Pichai after Google’s annual I/O developer conference, covering everything from internal restructuring to the timeline for artificial general intelligence (AGI). …
A new startup called Trajectory is building a platform that helps AI products improve continuously by learning from real user interactions. Maxwell Zeff reports for WIRED that the company was founded by researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, and OpenAI, and has raised a $15 million seed round at a $115 million valuation. …
YouTube is making it easier for viewers to identify AI-generated content on its platform. Todd Spangler reports for Variety that the platform is introducing automatic AI content labels and moving existing disclosures to more visible positions on the page. Until now, YouTube required creators to manually disclose AI use. Going forward, YouTube will also apply …
A new generation of AI tools is reshaping how software is built and, according to their most devoted users, how work itself is done. Steven Levy reports for WIRED on the rapid rise of AI agents, tracing how two tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and the open-source project OpenClaw — have ignited what many in …