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ComfyUI, a startup offering precise control over AI-generated images, video, and audio, has raised $30 million in a new funding round at a $500 million valuation. Marina Temkin reports for TechCrunch that Craft Ventures led the round, with Pace Capital, Chemistry, and TruArrow also participating. The company began as an open-source project in 2023. Its …
Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in AI startup Anthropic, deepening a relationship between two companies that compete directly in the AI market while also depending on each other commercially. Google will commit $10 billion immediately, valuing Anthropic at $350 billion. An additional $30 billion may follow if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, …
Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI begins this week in Oakland, California. A nine-person jury will hear claims that Altman betrayed the company’s founding mission by transforming OpenAI from a nonprofit into a for-profit enterprise. Dara Kerr and Nick Robins-Early report for The Guardian. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 alongside Altman and others. …
China’s top economic planning body, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), has ordered Meta to reverse its acquisition of AI startup Manus. The deal was valued at over $2 billion when Meta completed it in late 2025. The NDRC said it would “prohibit foreign investment in Manus in accordance with laws and regulations” and …
Anthropic’s valuation has surged to $1 trillion on secondary markets, overtaking rival OpenAI in investor demand despite being valued at less than half of OpenAI’s $852 billion in their most recent funding rounds. Business Insider reports that the AI company’s shares are now trading above $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange. …
Canadian AI company Cohere has agreed to acquire German AI firm Aleph Alpha. The deal values the combined company at around $20 billion. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed, and the deal remains subject to regulatory approval. Cohere will retain its name and operate with dual headquarters in Canada and Germany. Aleph …
OpenAI is rapidly building out its advertising business inside ChatGPT, and the cost of running ads there is already falling. The rate advertisers pay per thousand users — known as a CPM — dropped from $60 at launch to as low as $15 in some cases, depending on the platform used to buy the ads. …
Deezer now receives nearly 75,000 fully AI-generated tracks every day, making up 44% of all new music uploaded to the platform. An official press release states that this figure has grown from 10,000 daily uploads in early 2025 to its current level in roughly one year. Despite the volume, AI-generated music accounts for only 1 …
US tech companies successfully convinced the European Union to keep environmental data from individual datacenters hidden from the public. Ajit Niranjan reports for The Guardian that Microsoft, alongside industry groups DigitalEurope and Video Games Europe, lobbied EU officials to classify all datacenter performance indicators as confidential commercial information. The lobbying effort was strikingly effective. The …
Mistral AI, one of Europe’s leading artificial intelligence companies, has published a detailed policy playbook calling on European governments and institutions to take urgent action to build a self-reliant AI ecosystem. Arthur Mensch, co-founder and CEO of Mistral AI, warns that without decisive steps, Europe faces economic decline, reduced strategic influence, and growing dependence on …