Amazon closes $50B OpenAI deal

TechCrunch

Encore AI raised $30M to scale its AI voice agent platform that learns from analyzing successful customer interactions, positioning itself against larger CRM vendors by making conversation history the foundation of its agents rather than a secondary data point.

Financial Times

Amazon finalized a $50 billion investment in OpenAI, becoming one of the AI company's largest investors and intensifying competition among tech giants for AI market leadership.

Wall Street Journal

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in revenue growth and valuation as Claude Code gains enterprise traction, while investors grow wary of OpenAI's cash burn—marking a significant shift in AI market leadership.

SiliconANGLE

Meta and BlackRock are partnering on a $14 billion AI data center campus in El Paso as part of Meta's broader $145 billion infrastructure bet to power its agent-first strategy and emerging cloud business.

TechCrunch

Hint launches as an AI home management assistant co-founded by Martha Stewart, using expert guidance to deliver practical maintenance scheduling and property insights that demonstrate how domain expertise can improve AI accuracy and user trust.