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OpenAI Group PBC today launched GPT-5.2, its newest and most capable large language model. The LLM is available in three versions: Instant, Thinking and Pro. OpenAI says that the latter two editions provide record-setting performance across many mathematical tasks. The company claims …
OpenAI nabs $1B investment from Disney as part of character licensing deal
OpenAI Group PBC has secured a $1 billion investment from The Walt Disney Co. as part of a deal that will also see it license key intellectual property from the entertainment giant. The companies announced the partnership today. According to OpenAI, Disney …
Google debuts managed MCP servers for BigQuery, other cloud services
Google LLC today introduced managed MCP servers that will enable artificial intelligence agents to interact with four of its cloud services. Until recently, giving AI agents access to an application required manually building an integration between the two workloads. That task can …
Adobe makes Photoshop, Acrobat and Adobe Express accessible in ChatGPT
Adobe Inc. today made three of its most popular applications available in ChatGPT at no charge. Two of the programs, Photoshop and Adobe Express, focus on graphic design tasks. Embedding them in ChatGPT, which has more than 800 million weekly users, could …
Amazon to invest $35B in India by 2030 with focus on AI, logistics
Amazon.com Inc. today announced plans to invest $35 billion in India through the end of the decade. Executives detailed the initiative at the sixth edition of a business event the company holds annually in New Delhi. According to Amazon, the investment will …
Multimodal AI provider fal nabs $140M amid rapid growth
Artificial intelligence startup fal today announced that it has raised $140 million through its third funding round of the year. Sequoia led the Series D investment. It was joined by the venture capital arms of Nvidia Corp., Salesforce Inc. and Shopify Inc. …
Identity management startup Saviynt closes $700M investment
Saviynt Inc., a startup that helps enterprises regulate how users and applications access their internal systems, has closed a $700 million funding round. The company disclosed in its announcement of the Series B deal today that KKR was the lead investor. Sixth …
Anthropic launches broad AI collaboration with Accenture
Anthropic PBC today announced that Accenture plc will broadly adopt its Claude series of large language models. The collaboration expands upon an existing partnership between the companies. Last May, Anthropic teamed up with Accenture to help companies deploy artificial intelligence software. That …
Google previews upcoming Android XR smart glasses equipped with Gemini
Google LLC has shared new details about its plan to launch smart glasses powered by the Android XR operating system. The search giant first announced the initiative at its Google I/O developer event in May. At the time, the Alphabet Inc. unit …
Jeff Bezos backs $475M seed round for chip startup Unconventional AI
Unconventional AI Inc., a chip startup led by former Intel Corp. executive Naveen Rao, launched today with a massive $475 million in seed funding. Lightspeed and Andreessen Horowitz led the investment. They were joined by more than a half-dozen other backers including …