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OpenAI bought back $7 billion of shares from employees in a tender offer that valued the private company at $852 billion. Bloomberg reported the deal, which matched the valuation from OpenAI’s March fundraising round and followed that financing’s $122 billion capital raise. OpenAI filed confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in June to […]

Google has launched the Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL, with pre-orders opening now and shipments scheduled to begin on August 20. The Pixel 11 Pro starts at $1,099 and the Pro XL starts at $1,299. Both base models come with 256GB of storage and 12GB of RAM, with 512GB and 1TB storage […]

Google unveiled the Pixel 11 Pro Fold at its Made by Google event, pricing the foldable phone at $1,899 with shipments and in-store availability set for August 20. Pre-orders are open now, and Google priced the rest of the Pixel 11 lineup at $899 for the Pixel 11, $1,099 for the Pixel 11 Pro and […]

SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.6 on Wednesday, and Elon Musk said future versions will be trained on “the sum total of all SpaceX information,” including employee output and thinking. Grok 4.6 scored 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 by one point. SpaceXAI said the performance […]Read More

Disney+ has acquired global streaming rights to the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, with the new deal starting in the 2026/27 season. The agreement covers official Formula E events in more than 140 territories worldwide. In the United States, races will stream on both Disney+ and ESPN+. The deal also allows Formula E to […]

OpenAI has launched a preview version of a dedicated ChatGPT desktop app for Linux, expanding the software to what it said was one of its most-requested platforms. The company said on Tuesday that the worldwide release lets users access ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work and Codex on supported Linux distributions. “Linux has been one of the most-requested […]

In May 2026, Patrick Ryan, founder of Mobius Consulting, stood before a closed room of more than thirty senior C-suite executives, technology directors, and risk officers in London. When he asked how many of their organizations were actively running corporate AI tools in production, almost every hand in the room shot up. But when the […]

Banks are replacing legacy infrastructure, deploying AI, and securing data platforms. The KPMG 2025 Banking Survey: Technology shows executives are concurrently addressing core modernization, GenAI, and cybersecurity. These overhauls fail when core systems, data management, CRM, AI, and product delivery are treated as disconnected IT projects. Marat Mullagaliev, a banking transformation expert with 15+ years […]

Teams rolling out AI-assisted data labeling almost always watch one number: how many labels get produced per hour. Once a project scales, that number stops meaning much. A model can repeat a pattern all day long, but it can’t tell you whether the pattern was ever agreed on in the first place. “Label counts measure […]

Anthropic has added Claude Cowork to its Claude for Chrome browser extension, allowing users to run the tool from the Chrome sidebar. Conversations held in the side panel will be saved to a user’s history, and existing skills and connectors will work automatically in the browser. Users can also start tasks in a Claude app […]