One deployment after another, Apple continues to exploit the huge opportunity it has been given as enterprises consider the cost consequences of upgrading legacy equipment to Windows 11. It seems clear the forced need to upgrade Windows is motivating many business users to move to the Mac instead. This trend has been ongoing for some time, but seems to have

If you own Microsoft stock, you’ve got to be happy. Microsoft’s latest financial results for the quarter ending June 30, 2025 were robust: Revenue reached $76.4 billion (up 18% year-over-year), with net income at $27.2 billion (up 24%). The primary driver was robust growth in Microsoft’s cloud and AI businesses. Azure’s revenue, which has finally

A leak suggests that OpenAI is about to launch a powerful new open-source AI model, potentially within hours. The evidence comes from a trail of digital breadcrumbs, eagerly pored over by developers. At the centre of it all are screenshots showing a series of model repositories with names like yofo-deepcurrent/gpt-oss-120b and yofo-wildflower/gpt-oss-20b. The repos have

Deep Cogito has released Cogito v2, a new family of open-source AI models that sharpen their own reasoning skills. Released under an open-source licence, the new Cogito v2 lineup includes four hybrid reasoning AI models: two mid-sized at 70B and 109B parameters, and two large-scale versions at 405B and 671B.  The largest, a 671B Mixture-of-Experts

AI innovator SiMa.ai has raised $85 million in an oversubscribed funding round, led by Maverick Capital and joined by new investor StepStone Group. This latest investment brings SiMa.ai’s total capital raised to an impressive $355 million. With the round led by Maverick Capital, existing investors also participated, reinforcing their confidence in the company’s vision. Physical

OpenAI, the developer behind the groundbreaking ChatGPT, has successfully raised $8.3 billion, reaching an impressive valuation of $300 billion. The funding round, led by Dragoneer Investment Group’s notable $2.8 billion investment, was significantly oversubscribed, highlighting intense investor interest months ahead of schedule. This recent influx forms part of OpenAI’s ambitious strategy to raise a total

Strategic partnership with global QSR technology leader Acrelec unlocks new revenue opportunities and accelerates AI adoption in restaurants worldwide SoundHound AI, Inc. (Nasdaq: SOUN), a global leader in voice artificial intelligence, and Acrelec, a world leader in quick service restaurant (QSR) technology, today announced a strategic partnership to bring advanced, voice-enabled drive-thru systems to restaurants

Well, it finally happened. AMD just dropped a bombshell at the intersection of AI and personal computing — and if you’ve been itching for true local AI model generation on your laptop (without offloading tasks to the cloud), this might just be your lucky day. The chipmaker has introduced the first-ever implementation of Stable Diffusion

There’s a certain kind of electricity in the air when an open-source darling gets the kind of backing usually reserved for cloud giants and headline-grabbing AI unicorns. That’s exactly what happened this week as Anaconda, the Austin-based AI startup best known for its popular Python data science platform, closed a Series C round at a

Ourdream.ai is an AI‑companion platform that lets you build and interact with a personalized virtual partner. You pick appearance, personality, voice style, interests—and even fantasies. It supports uncensored image and short video generation, so your companion feels visually real as well as conversationally alive. Their memory system keeps track of past chats so conversations evolve