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Nvidia’s market capitalization has soared past $3.34 trillion, dethroning Microsoft to become the world’s most valuable company as overwhelming demand for its AI chips continues to reshape the global tech hierarchy.

OpenAI has secured a multi-year partnership with TIME magazine, allowing ChatGPT to access and display real-time news and content from the publisher’s extensive 101-year archive with direct attribution. The deal aims to enhance the AI’s reliability while providing the media company with a new revenue stream and access to AI tools.

Alphabet’s self-driving unit, Waymo, has officially partnered with Uber Eats to launch a fully autonomous food delivery service. The new collaboration uses Waymo’s driverless vehicles to deliver orders from select merchants to customers in the Phoenix, Arizona area.

OpenAI has acquired real-time analytics database company Rockset in a major stock deal, signaling a strategic push to enhance the infrastructure powering its AI models and enterprise products.

AI-powered search startup Perplexity has secured over $600 million in a new funding round, tripling its valuation to $3 billion as it intensifies its challenge against Google’s dominance in the search market.

Anthropic has released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its fastest and most cost-effective model to date, which outperforms competitor models like GPT-4o and introduces a new interactive workspace called Artifacts.

AI robotics startup Figure has officially deployed its general-purpose humanoid robots at a BMW manufacturing facility in the United States, launching a landmark partnership to integrate automated physical labor into automotive production.

The European Union is intensifying its scrutiny of Big Tech’s influence in the AI sector, formally requesting information from Microsoft regarding its partnership with French AI startup Mistral AI to assess potential anti-competitive effects.

Keen Technologies, an AI research and product lab founded by co-authors of the influential ‘Attention Is All You Need’ paper, has secured nearly $100 million in funding to develop next-generation AI models and products.