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Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwardsChatGPT for TeachersCourtesy of OpenAIOpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT for Teachers, a version of its artificial intelligence chatbot that is designed for K-12 educators and school districts. Educators can use ChatGPT for Teachers to securely work with student information, get personalized teaching support and collaborate with colleagues within their district, OpenAI said. There are also administrative controls that district leaders can use to determine how ChatGPT for Teachers will work within their communities. OpenAI said it is initially launching ChatGPT for Teachers with a cohort of districts that represent roughly 150,000 educators. ChatGPT for Teachers will be free…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Computer chipmaker Nvidia is poised to release a quarterly earnings report Wednesday that is expected to either deepen a recent downturn in the stock market or prompt an sigh of relief among investors increasingly worried that the world’s most valuable company is perched atop an artificial intelligence bubble that’s about to burst.Nvidia’s report, due after the market closes, has turned into a pulse check on an AI boom that began three years ago when OpenAI released ChatGPT. That breakthrough transformed Nvidia from a mostly under-the-radar chipmaker — best known for making graphics chips for video games…

Views on sponsored videos on YouTube have risen 28% year-on-year, and the number of sponsored videos has grown by 54% year-on-year in the first half of 2025, according to a report from Tubefilter. What’s more, ad spend through creator channels has been steadily rising and is even set to outperform traditional media in some cases. Buoyed by these signals, Agentio, a startup that connects brands with YouTube creators for sponsored videos, has raised its third funding round of $40 million in as many years. The Series B round is led by consumer-focused VC Forerunner with participation from existing investors Benchmark,…

MP Materials surged Wednesday on a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Saudi Arabian Mining Company, Maaden, to develop a rare earth refinery in the kingdom. The U.S. rare earth miner’s stock was last up about 9%. MP and the Pentagon will hold a 49% stake in the joint venture, the company said. Maaden’s position will be no less than 51%. The Defense Department will finance the U.S. portion of the venture with MP providing technical and marketing expertise. The binding agreement to form the joint venture comes after MP and Maaden signed a memoranum of understanding…

 VCG | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesAlphabet stock jumped 5% on Wednesday after Google debuted its latest artificial intelligence model, Gemini 3, sparking optimism from investors. The new model is an improvement on its predecessor, Gemini 2.5, which Google released about eight months ago. Google said Gemini 3 allows users to get better answers to more complex questions and doesn’t need as much prompting to determine the context and intent behind their requests.Gemini 3 will be integrated into Google’s search products, the Gemini app and enterprise services.Analysts at D.A. Davidson said in a Tuesday note that they were quickly…

Waymo is taking the safety operators out of its fleet of robotaxis in Miami starting today, ahead of a commercial launch in 2026, the latest in a long series of steps taken this year to expand its nationwide footprint. The company said in a blog post Tuesday it will start offering fully autonomous trips to employees in Miami. Over the next few weeks, Waymo said it will do the same in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando. This latest move comes just one week after Waymo announced a major milestone: It is now offering paid rides on highways in Los…

On Tuesday morning, a big chunk of the internet went down or was not working properly, including ChatGPT, Claude, Spotify, X, and more due to an outage at internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.  Cloudflare said in its status page at around 8 a.m. ET it had identified the issues and was implementing a fix. Less than two hours later, Cloudflare said “a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal.” Around the same time, Cloudflare’s chief technology officer Dane Knecht explained that…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States, Britain and Australia announced sanctions Wednesday against a Russia-based web hosting service for allegedly running ransomware operations that are meant to help criminals evade detection by law enforcement. Media Land, which officials said is among the companies that sell access to servers and other computer infrastructure and enable such criminal activity, was penalized along with three members of its leadership team and three affiliated business in an operation coordinated with the FBI, according to the Treasury Department. Also cited was Hypercore Ltd., which the Treasury described as a front company of Aeza Group, an…

Indian edtech startup Physics Wallah ended its first day as a public company on a high, with its shares closing 44% higher than they were listed for, indicating that the country’s edtech sector may still recover after years of gloom. Priced at ₹109, the company’s shares climbed as high as ₹161.99 before closing at ₹156.49, valuing it at ₹448 billion (around $5 billion). That’s well above its listing valuation of ₹315 billion (approximately $3.6 billion), and roughly 79% higher than its last private valuation of $2.8 billion in September 2024. Physics Wallah raised ₹34.8 billion (around $393 million) in the IPO.…

Microsoft, Anthropic, and NVIDIA are setting a bar for cloud infrastructure investment and AI model availability with a new compute alliance. This agreement signals a divergence from single-model dependency toward a diversified, hardware-optimised ecosystem, altering the governance landscape for senior technology leaders.Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the relationship is a reciprocal integration where the companies are “increasingly going to be customers of each other”. While Anthropic leverages Azure infrastructure, Microsoft will incorporate Anthropic models across its product stack.Anthropic has committed to purchasing $30 billion of Azure compute capacity. This figure shows the immense computational requirements necessary to train and deploy…