Latest Artificial Intelligence Updates and Stories
Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI secured $450 million in Series A funding led by Premji Invest, reaching a $1.7 billion valuation, to develop foundational robotics models trained on publicly available internet videos using its 'Direct Video Action' approach—aiming to give robots the generalization ability that teleoperation alone cannot provide.
Google announced a sweeping expansion of Gemini AI capabilities across its Workspace suite, including a new in-Docs chat window for generating fully formatted drafts, AI-powered spreadsheet creation in Sheets, Gemini-generated slides, and an AI Overview search feature in Drive—rolling out first to Google AI Ultra and Pro subscribers.
Anthropic launched Code Review for Claude Code, a multi-agent AI tool that automatically analyzes GitHub pull requests for logical errors, prioritizes findings by severity, and costs $15–$25 per review—addressing the growing bottleneck caused by the surge in AI-generated code in enterprise environments.
Oracle reported fiscal Q3 2026 results that surpassed Wall Street estimates, with cloud revenue up 44% year-over-year to $8.9 billion and remaining performance obligations quadrupling to $553 billion, as the company raised its fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to $90 billion on surging AI infrastructure demand.
Nvidia announced a multiyear strategic partnership with Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab, including a significant undisclosed investment and a commitment for the startup to deploy at least one gigawatt of Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin systems starting in 2027.
AMI Labs, the Paris-based AI startup co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop world models—AI systems that learn from physical reality rather than language alone.
More than 30 employees from Google DeepMind and OpenAI, including Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, filed an amicus brief warning that the Pentagon's blacklist of Anthropic threatens the entire U.S. AI industry's global competitiveness and could trigger a broader revolt of tech workers.
Microsoft filed an amicus brief in federal court supporting Anthropic's lawsuit against the Pentagon, urging a judge to issue a temporary restraining order blocking the DOD's supply chain risk designation and warning the ban could 'hamper U.S. warfighters' by disrupting AI systems already in use.
