BREAKINGOpenAI closes $40B round at $340B valuation — largest private tech raise ever·MODELSAnthropic ships Claude Opus 4 with extended thinking and agentic capabilities·FUNDINGxAI raises $6B Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz for Grok infrastructure·REGULATIONEU AI Act enters full enforcement — high-risk systems must comply now·AGENTSGoogle DeepMind open-sources Gemini Agent Framework for autonomous task completion·RESEARCHStanford HAI: Enterprise AI adoption hits 78% globally, GenAI in production at 45%·WARNINGUS Senate passes AI Transparency Act — content labeling required at scale·PRODUCTMeta releases Llama 4 Maverick open-weight model rivaling proprietary alternatives·MODELSDeepSeek V3 scores within 2% of GPT-4o on MMLU at 1/10th the inference cost·FUNDINGMistral AI raises €600M Series B at €6B valuation for European AI sovereignty·BREAKINGOpenAI closes $40B round at $340B valuation — largest private tech raise ever·MODELSAnthropic ships Claude Opus 4 with extended thinking and agentic capabilities·FUNDINGxAI raises $6B Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz for Grok infrastructure·REGULATIONEU AI Act enters full enforcement — high-risk systems must comply now·AGENTSGoogle DeepMind open-sources Gemini Agent Framework for autonomous task completion·RESEARCHStanford HAI: Enterprise AI adoption hits 78% globally, GenAI in production at 45%·WARNINGUS Senate passes AI Transparency Act — content labeling required at scale·PRODUCTMeta releases Llama 4 Maverick open-weight model rivaling proprietary alternatives·MODELSDeepSeek V3 scores within 2% of GPT-4o on MMLU at 1/10th the inference cost·FUNDINGMistral AI raises €600M Series B at €6B valuation for European AI sovereignty·
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Odd Lots: Google’s Liz Reid on Search in an AI World (Podcast)
Apr 23, 2026Bloomberg Technology
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Not too long ago, search engines were the dominant form of querying the internet. But that’s changing since the rise of large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google’s Gemini. More and more people are getting their online info through AI, effectively bypassing the search bars of old and cre
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