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Tech Competition is Helping Americans. Here's How.
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Wednesday • July 9, 2025
OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome
Launch Intensifies OpenAI’s Competition with Google in AI Race
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s, opens new tab market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone of Google’s success: user data.
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Tuesday • July 1, 2025
Surge AI Reportedly Targeting $1 Billion in First-Ever Fundraise
Data Labeling Company Surge AI is Reportedly Planning a $1 Billion Funding Round
The firm has hired advisors for the capital raise, which would be the company’s first, Reuters reported Tuesday (July 1), citing sources familiar with the matter. Those sources said Surge, founded by former Google and Meta engineer Edwin Chen, is aiming for a valuation of more than $15 billion.
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Sunday • June 22, 2025
Perplexity’s AI-powered browser opens up to select Windows users
The Company’s CEO Teased that a Windows Build for Comet is Ready for Beta Testers
Aravind Srinivas posted on X that the Windows build of Comet is ready and has sent out invites to early testers already. When Comet is released, the agentic browser will face competition from Opera Neon and similar offerings from Google and OpenAI.
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Wednesday • May 21, 2025
OpenAI’s Biggest Data Center Secures $11.6 Billion in Funding
The Eight-Building Texas Project is a Central Piece of OpenAI’s Efforts to Reduce its Reliance on Microsoft for Computing Power
A Texas data center that the startup Crusoe is building for OpenAI has secured $11.6 billion in new funding commitments, expanding a site that is core to increasing the ChatGPT maker’s long-term computing capabilities.
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Friday • March 14, 2025
Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is Limiting Access to Tools that Boosted its Rivals, but Larger Customers Like DuckDuckGo Say They Won’t be Affected
Microsoft quietly announced earlier this week that it plans to shut down a long-standing tool supplying search engine startups and other software developers with a raw feed of Bing search results. The Bing Search APIs, or application programming interfaces, were once vital to many niche Google alternatives, but fell out of favor more recently as Microsoft hiked fees for the service and restricted its use.
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Monday • February 24, 2025
Apple Vows to Build A.I. Servers in Houston and Spend $500 Billion in U.S.
The Company Pledged the Multibillion-Dollar Investment Over the Next Four Years and Said it Would Create 20,000 Jobs
Days after Apple’s chief executive met with President Trump, the company said on Monday that it planned to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people in the United States over the next four years and open a factory in Texas to make the machines that power the company’s push into artificial intelligence.
“We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and we’re proud to build on our longstanding U.S. investments,” Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, said in a statement. The company made similar, smaller pledges during the Biden administration and Mr. Trump’s first term, though it has not yet followed through on some of those promises.
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