SAN FRANCISCO (TechGenez) – OpenAI has announced that its ChatGPT Ads business has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, marking a major milestone in the company’s push to diversify its income beyond subscriptions. The announcement comes as OpenAI continues to expand its advertising offerings to new markets and…

BEIJING (TechGenez) – Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek released the official API version of its V4 Pro model on Wednesday, delivering a significant leap in AI agent performance. The new version of the model is now fully compatible with the Responses API and integrates with Codex, opening new possibilities for…

BERLIN (TechGenez) – Germany’s engineering association VDMA has urged the European Union to place humanoid robotics at the top of its political agenda and build resilient domestic supply chains for the critical components needed to produce these advanced robots. The call comes as the global race for leadership in humanoid…

LOS ANGELES (TechGenez) – Video game giant Electronic Arts, maker of EA Sports FC, The Sims, Madden NFL, and Battlefield, has been taken private in a $55 billion deal. The acquisition was led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) together with private equity firms Silver Lake Partners and Affinity…

NEW YORK (TechGenez) – Hackers have stolen more than $100 million worth of Bitcoin from users of Coldcard hardware wallets in what is now one of the largest crypto thefts in recent years. The attack targeted a vulnerability in Coinkite’s Coldcard firmware that allowed attackers to guess users’ seed phrases…

NEW YORK (TechGenez) – Elon Musk’s social media platform X has begun offering its X Money banking service to all U.S. subscribers of the paid Premium and Premium+ tiers. The move marks a significant step in Musk’s long-standing goal of turning X into a comprehensive “everything app” that combines social…

WASHINGTON (TechGenez) – President Donald Trump has sharply criticised the European Union after it imposed a record €890 million ($1 billion) fine on Google, saying Washington would launch a formal trade investigation into what he called the bloc’s “robbing” of American companies. In a post on social media on Friday,…

BRUSSELS (TechGenez) – The European Union’s record fine against Google has sparked a fresh wave of private lawsuits across the continent, with rivals demanding as much as $10 billion in damages for alleged abuse of its dominant position. The penalty, announced on July 23, is the first major action taken…

PARIS (TechGenez) – French lawmakers have approved a new law banning social media access for children under 15, putting France at the forefront of similar efforts across Europe. The bill passed the National Assembly on Tuesday by 279 votes to 81. President Emmanuel Macron immediately hailed the decision as a…

WASHINGTON / BEIJING (TechGenez) – The United States and China will hold talks on artificial intelligence in September. The discussions follow the Trump–Xi summit in May and mark a key step as the two rivals work to manage the risks from each other’s increasingly powerful frontier AI models. The meetings…