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Amazon has acquired Bee, a startup creating AI-powered wearable devices that record and summarize users' daily activities. Bee's main product is a $49.99 wrist device with an accompanying Apple Watch app that functions as a personalized AI assistant. Founded by former Twitter employees Maria de Lourdes Zollo and Ethan Sutin, Bee emphasizes privacy protection and had previously raised $7 million from investors. The acquisition gives Amazon entry into the growing wearable AI market, with the company promising to maintain Bee's approach to privacy and user control. While financial terms weren't disclosed, all Bee employees have been offered positions at Amazon.

Elon Musk's xAI is seeking $12 billion in funding to compete with leading AI companies, following a recent $10 billion round. The capital will primarily purchase NVIDIA chips for a new data center to power its Grok chatbot. Valor Equity Partners is facilitating negotiations. Despite facing controversy over its Grok 4 model and environmental concerns about its proposed facilities, xAI continues aggressive expansion. If successful, this funding could boost the company's valuation to $200 billion, up dramatically from $18 billion earlier this year.

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their Stargate initiative with an additional 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity across the US, bringing the total to over 5 gigawatts. This $500 billion investment will support more than 2 million chips for AI processing and create over 100,000 jobs. The project advances OpenAI's commitment to develop 10 gigawatts of US AI infrastructure within four years. Stargate I in Abilene, Texas is already operational with early workloads, and Oracle has started delivering Nvidia GB200 racks to power next-generation AI models. The partnership, which includes SoftBank, aims to maintain US leadership in global AI development.

Google and OpenAI made history at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad when their AI systems achieved gold medal scores. Both Gemini and ChatGPT solved five out of six problems, earning 35/42 points. While impressive, humans still dominated with five perfect scorers. Google's entry was officially validated by IMO officials, while OpenAI self-reported their results. This milestone demonstrates AI's growing reasoning capabilities, though the top human mathematicians remain unmatched in this prestigious competition held in Queensland, Australia.