Meta’s $7.99-and-$19.99 chatbot tiers and OpenAI’s push into advertising mark the moment the AI revenue-model question becomes a cross-cutting collision. Meta’s decision to begin selling consumer subscriptions to its Meta AI chatbot at $7.99 and $19.99…
Three days after the Vatican called for AI to be ‘disarmed’, the Mistral CEO defended his company’s defence-AI work, arguing Europe cannot afford unilateral restraint. Arthur Mensch, the chief executive of French AI startup Mistral, pushed back directl…
At its first annual conference in Paris, Mistral formally rolled out the physics-aware AI stack it built around the Emmi acquisition, with Airbus, BMW and EDF as launch customers. Mistral AI used its first annual conference in Paris on Thursday to form…
Liu Qiangdong’s pledge to safeguard JD.com’s workforce from automation sits uncomfortably with his own ‘unmanned era’ vision and a flagship warehouse already running on four employees. Liu Qiangdong, the founder of Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com, vowe…
SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right. Elon Musk has clarified that SpaceX did not commit to…
Michele Spagnuolo allegedly traded under the handle ‘AlphaRaccoon’, netting $1.2m on Google’s Year-in-Search outcomes. It is the second federal criminal case tied to Polymarket. Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Mich…
The five-year deal consolidates scattered Microsoft 365 and cloud subscriptions for the Defense Department, intelligence community and Coast Guard. Dell, not Microsoft, is the prime contractor. The US Department of Defense has awarded Dell a five-year,…
Jay Shetty, the former Hindu monk turned self-help podcaster, has signed a deal to bring the video version of his show On Purpose exclusively to Spotify and Netflix. The arrangement is worth as much as $100 million over multiple years, according to peo…
Meta is selling subscriptions to its AI chatbot for the first time, introducing two paid tiers that put it in direct competition with OpenAI and Google for consumer AI revenue. Meta One Plus costs $7.99 per month and Meta One Premium costs $19.99 per m…
ElevenLabs has struck a deal with Stan Lee Universe to add Stan Lee’s voice and likeness to its platform, making the late Marvel co-creator the latest deceased cultural icon to be digitally resurrected by AI. The partnership puts Lee’s voice on the Ele…