Work management platform Asana has acquired StackAI, a no-code AI agent-building startup, in a move aimed at strengthening its position in the rapidly evolving AI productivity market. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Editorial credit: aileenchik / Shutterstock StackAI is known for its platform that allows users to build and deploy AI agents without writing code, enabling businesses to automate workflows such as data processing, customer support, research tasks,

CNN has filed a lawsuit against AI search startup Perplexity AI, accusing the company of unlawfully copying and distributing its copyrighted journalism through AI-generated search responses. Editorial credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock The lawsuit, filed in a New York federal court, alleges that Perplexity copied thousands of CNN articles, videos, and images to power its AI products, then redistributed “identical or substantially similar” content that directly competes with C

Anthropic is in advanced discussions to rent cloud servers powered by Microsoft’s custom-designed AI chips. The high-stakes negotiations arrive just months after Microsoft committed a blockbuster $5 billion investment to Anthropic, signaling a profound realignment in the tech industry as major AI developers aggressively secure alternative computing power to sustain the global expansion of generative AI. Navigating the global compute crunch with custom silicon The potential ha

Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the AI giant will provide $2 million worth of API credits to every single startup in the current Y Combinator (YC) batches. The announcement, made during a closed-door YC event, has completely upended the traditional dynamics of startup acceleration. Editorial credit: FotoField / Shutterstock Rather than cash, OpenAI is leveraging its most valuable resource (compute) as a new form of corporate currency. The move effectively pos

Google has completely unified its creative artificial intelligence ecosystem, unveiling Gemini Omni, a new family of "any-to-any" multimodal models, at its annual Google I/O 2026 developer conference. The launch, officially introduced by Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis on May 19, 2026, marks the first time a top-tier AI company has collapsed separate text, image, audio, and video pipelines into a single, unified architecture. The first model in the lineup, Gemini Omni Flas