Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI After $2.7 Billion Return
Google's Gemini co-lead and transformer paper co-author Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI, two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to hire him back.
Google's Gemini co-lead and transformer paper co-author Noam Shazeer is joining OpenAI, two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to hire him back.
Apple rebuilt Siri from scratch with Google Gemini at WWDC 2026. iOS 27 adds a new Siri AI app, Claude support, and AI features across Photos and Safari.
ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly users in May 2026, faster than TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube ever managed - even as its market share quietly dropped.
Nine days after the US export ban, Claude Fable 5 remains offline. Anthropic promised restoration "within days" on June 18 - that deadline has passed.
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Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in annualized revenue, hitting $30 billion against OpenAI's $24 billion - driven almost entirely by enterprise API adoption.
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the startup behind AI coding assistant Cursor, for $60 billion - the largest purchase of a venture-backed startup on record.
NASA's Roman Telescope launches August 30 on SpaceX Falcon Heavy, eight months early. Scientists expect up to 100,000 exoplanet finds.
Anthropic has disabled Claude Fable 5 for all users after a US government national security directive claimed a jailbreak vulnerability had been found.