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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Tuesday • September 2, 2025
Anthropic Completes New Funding Round at $183 Billion Value
Anthropic Will Use the New Funding to Meet Growing Enterprise Demand, Further Safety Research, and Accelerate Plans for International Expansion
Anthropic has closed a deal to raise $13 billion from investors in a new funding round that nearly triples its valuation to $183 billion, including dollars raised — a larger-than-expected haul that makes the artificial intelligence company one of the most valuable startups in the world.
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Thursday • August 28, 2025
Microsoft starts testing AI model that could escalate competition with OpenAI
Microsoft’s MAI-1-preview Model is the Software Company’s First Model Trained Internally From Start to Finish
Microsoft has largely relied on OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models to power AI features in its key products. It’s trying to lessen that dependence. The software company said Thursday that it’s begun publicly testing a homegrown AI model that could lead to enhancements to its Copilot assistant for consumers. The MAI-1-preview model is being tested on LMArena, a website where people can conduct evaluations.
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Wednesday • August 27, 2025
GenAI retail traffic surges 4,700%, reshaping the path to purchase
Online Retail Traffic from Generative AI (genAI) Sources is Exploding, Highlighting How AI Tools are Intercepting and Guiding the Product Search Journey
Growing confidence in AI is narrowing the gap between AI-assisted shoppers and traditional shoppers. AI is also becoming more embedded in mobile shopping, including voice assistant and on-the-go shopping queries: 26% of genAI-driven retail traffic came through mobile in July, per Adobe, up from 18% in January.
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Monday • August 25, 2025
Perplexity AI Browser Becomes Publishing’s New Revenue Stream
Perplexity AI’s Comet Browser Will Become a Source of Income for Publishers Through a New Subscription Service Launched Monday
The service, Comet Plus, gives Perplexity users access to premium content from a group of publishers and journalists. The company set aside a $42.5 million fund to distribute to participating publishers. It will be distributed among publishers whose content is used and found through its AI-powered search results.
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Thursday • August 21, 2025
OpenAI Is Challenging Google—While Using Its Search Data
OpenAI Has Quietly Used Google Search Data Scraped by SerpAPI to Power ChatGPT
As it tries to unseat Google, OpenAI is relying on search data from an unlikely source: Google. OpenAI has been using Google search results scraped from the web to help power ChatGPT responses, according to two people with knowledge of it.
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Wednesday • August 20, 2025
Microsoft and NFL announce multiyear partnership to use AI to enhance game day analysis
The Partnership will Upgrade the NFL’s Sideline Viewing System by Equipping 32 Teams with More Than 2,500 Custom-built Microsoft Surface Copilot Tablets
“Enhancing the league is a responsibility we take seriously, and Microsoft has been a trusted sideline technology partner for over a decade. With Microsoft’s AI technologies, including Copilot, we see tremendous opportunities to elevate the gameday experience for our clubs and deliver an even more compelling product to our fans,” NFL Chief Information Officer Gary Brantley said in a press release.
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