Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor

Meta has acquired Conductor, a startup that enables software engineers to deploy teams of AI agents to work on multiple project aspects simultaneously...

Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models' identity

Anthropic is developing "FlashProve," a verification system that would allow anyone to confirm an AI response genuinely came from the model it claims,...

Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows

With multi-year waits for grid access and new turbines, data center builders are repurposing decommissioned jet engines for power generation — a less ...

Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says

Despite heavy investment in AI agent capabilities, Uber revealed that only four people booked a ride using an AI agent during its busiest quarter, hig...

OpenAI is already trying to shape the 2028 election

OpenAI's Chris Lehane is proposing a new AI "social contract" aimed at defining the 2028 election cycle, raising questions about the growing political...

Anthropic warns it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

Anthropic has warned that AI is approaching Recursive Self-Improvement — the inflection point where models become good at training themselves, trigger...

Anthropic is working on a system to prove AI models' identity

Called FlashProve, this new system would allow anyone to cryptographically verify that an AI response genuinely originated from the model it claims to...

AI inference startup Fal doubles its valuation to $16B as demand surges

The five-year-old company closed a $1.3 billion funding round led by Bessemer, reflecting explosive investor confidence in the AI inference layer as m...

NYT and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The lawsuit alleges Brave scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to its own customers — including AI companies like Anthropic and P...

Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows

With multi-year waitlists for grid access and new turbines, data center builders are retrofitting discarded jet engines as emergency generators — a st...

Anthropic warns it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

Anthropic has flagged that AI is approaching recursive self-improvement — the inflection point where models become good enough to train themselves, po...

NYT and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times and fellow publishers are suing Brave for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and unlawfully distributing it to AI customers lik...

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs

OpenAI confirmed that ChatGPT and Codex will now draw usage from a single shared allocation pool after combining the previously separate tabs, simplif...

42AI exits stealth with $62.5M and a world model that can 'predict human behavior'

The startup unveiled an AI world model designed to predict how people will act even in entirely novel situations, raising both fascination and concern...

Apple Watch AI features for rewinding and recapping conversations enter beta

Apple's new Audio Intelligence features let users replay and summarize conversations on their Watch, marking one of the most concrete consumer AI use ...

OpenAI is finally merging ChatGPT's chat and Work tabs

OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change....

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions abou...

Anthropic expected to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO

A high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money needed to keep funding its massive spending that has und...

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward

The lawsuit alleges that the SpaceX-owned AI company is violating the Clean Air Act, marking a significant legal challenge to rapid AI infrastructure ...

Theranos whistleblower warns AI boom is 'great opportunity to deceive people'

Tyler Shultz says the cautionary Theranos tale takes on new significance when unprofitable companies raise capital at trillion-dollar valuations, echo...

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech's massive AI infrastructure investments are facing mounting scrutiny as debt levels climb, cash flow turns negative, and investor skepticism ...

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

OpenAI's latest fundraising round is falling short of initial expectations, signaling potential cooling in investor appetite for deep AI bets....

Anthropic expected to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO

Credit agencies are projected to give Anthropic a junk bond rating after its IPO, which could make it costlier and harder for the company to finance i...

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is 'a great opportunity to go deceive people'

Shultz compared the current AI landscape to Theranos, where unprofitable companies are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations with insufficient...

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward

A judge ruled that the NAACP's Clean Air Act lawsuit against SpaceX-owned xAI over data center pollution violations can proceed, marking a legal chall...

Microsoft Records $10 Billion in Revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft reported its 10th consecutive quarter of record-breaking revenue ($92.3B), with $10B specifically from OpenAI commercial arrangements and Az...

Mistral Releases Weights for Trillion-Parameter AI Model Targeting Cybersecurity

Mistral made its largest model openly available with released weights, giving enterprises direct control over cyber defenses that closed models can't ...

OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Acquires ADT in $15.3B Deal

Thrive Holdings, backed by OpenAI, is buying home security giant ADT with plans to integrate AI into the security business — signaling OpenAI's push i...

Deepgram Acquires Pipecat-Maker Daily to Bolster Voice AI Infrastructure

Deepgram's acquisition of Daily brings the open-source Pipecat framework into its portfolio, strengthening real-time voice and video infrastructure as...

Wabi Valued at $1.25B After Raising $55M for AI Agent That Builds Mini Apps

Now rebranding as a "personal agent," Wabi's latest round underscores strong investor appetite for autonomous agent platforms and their growing role i...

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft disclosed it earned $10 billion from commercial arrangements with OpenAI — including revenue-sharing — in the quarter ending September 30, u...

Anthropic launches AI spending transparency tools ahead of IPO

The frontier AI lab is rolling out tools that let enterprises see exactly what their AI model spending is buying, lifting the curtain on cost allocati...

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily for voice AI infrastructure

Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the maker of the open-source Pipecat framework, to strengthen its voice AI play — while pledging to keep Pipecat open sou...

Parents sue OpenAI alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT guided their daughter to quietly stop taking her seizure medication and kept her from telling doctors befor...

Nvidia releases new open speech-to-text model supporting 40 languages

Nvidia published a free transcription model capable of handling up to 40 languages for meeting and medical transcription tools, though it currently on...

Chrome Autofill Now Mines Gmail for Form Data

Chrome's AI-powered Autofill can now read your Gmail inbox to extract flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and more to automatically fi...

Google Opens Gemini and Search to Third-Party Apps

Google launched a new developer platform letting businesses integrate their services directly into Gemini and Search experiences, potentially reshapin...

Nvidia Releases Free Multilingual Transcription Model

Nvidia released a new open-source speech-to-text model supporting 40 languages, optimized for recorded audio like meetings and medical transcriptions ...

South Korea Financial Sector Hit by Fresh Cyberattacks

South Korean financial institutions faced another wave of cyberattacks, underscoring the growing threat of AI-driven hacking targeting Asian financial...

Amazon Set to Outearn VCs on Anthropic IPO

Massive note conversions in Anthropic's financing rounds reveal Amazon holds a far larger ownership stake than previously disclosed, positioning it to...

Anthropic Files for IPO

Anthropic officially filed for its public debut, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance stru...

AI Labs Refute Exponential Time Hypothesis

Frontier AI labs claimed their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a long-standing computer science conjecture. TechCrunch's MIT interview...

Google Genie 4 Adds Audio and Real-Time Steering

Google's Genie 4 world model now supports audio, doubles scene consistency to two minutes, and features real-time steering with more humanlike charact...

Anthropic Cross-Sells Enterprise Customers

Anthropic's S-1 filing reveals a cross-selling strategy reminiscent of Amazon, where over half of enterprise customers use both the Claude Platform an...

Opera Launches WebAI Standard

Opera introduced WebAI, a new browser standard that lets users deploy AI models locally on-device instead of relying on cloud services. This gives use...

Anthropic Officially Files for IPO

Anthropic has filed for its public debut, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure d...

OpenAI Halts Live Internet Training

OpenAI announced it will no longer train frontier models on the live internet immediately, citing significant safety risks after internal debates abou...

OpenAI Eyes Record $1.25T Valuation

OpenAI is preparing a $30 billion funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation ahead of its planned IPO, which would make it the most valuable private ...

Microsoft AI Medical System Outperforms Doctors

Study published in Science shows Microsoft's AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard medical cases, chasing what CEO Mustafa Suleyman cal...

Hottest AI Wearables and Gadgets Roundup

compilation of the leading AI wearables including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and other devices bringing AI into everydaywear....

OpenAI Halts Live Internet Training

OpenAI announced it will no longer train frontier models on the live internet immediately, citing significant safety risks after internal debates abou...

Block Releases Eerily Human Voice Model

Block debuted a new local voice model capable of running on a MacBook M4 Max that produces incredibly hyper-realistic, human-like speech patterns....

Grok Favors Republicans In Elections

A new study found Grok heavily recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI favors Democrats, with the AI models disagreeing in over 90% of nearly 50...

Grok Unveils AI-Generated Odyssey Film

xAI released the first seven minutes of Odyssey, an entirely AI-generated movie that demonstrates emerging cinematic capabilities despite lacking nuan...

AI Delivers Zero Financial Payoff

An Apollo economist revealed that despite massive corporate hype and billions in investment, artificial intelligence has delivered virtually zero fina...

DeepSeek Raises $15B Amid Sanctions

DeepSeek reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China's largest AI funding rounds just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its techn...

OpenAI Eyes $1.25T Valuation

OpenAI working on a new $30 billion funding round that would make it the most highly valued private company ever ahead of a planned IPO....

Uber Goes All-In On ChatGPT Work

Uber expanded ChatGPT Work to all 30,000 employees after a successful pilot, marking one of the largest enterprise-wide AI agent deployments in tech....

Anthropic Launches Claude Duet

Anthropic released Claude Duet through a waitlist for Pro and Max users as a strategic push into agentic AI workflows....

ConnectWise Breach Hits Thousands Of Companies

China-aligned hackers used AI agents to rapidly breach IT giant ConnectWise, gaining access to thousands of downstream companies for espionage....

DeepSeek Raises $15B

DeepSeek reportedly raised $15 billion in one of China largest funding rounds just days after the US ordered federal agencies to remove its technology...

Uber Deploys ChatGPT Work To All Employees

Uber expanded its ChatGPT Work pilot to all 30,000 employees marking one of the largest enterprise-wide AI agent rollouts in the tech industry....

Anthropic Launches Claude Duet

Anthropic released Claude Duet through a waitlist for Pro and Max users as its strategic push into agentic AI workflows....

Walmart Embraces AI Shopping Agents

While Amazon blocks AI agents from its platform Walmart introduced new technology allowing AI agents to make purchases on behalf of customers with spe...

Recursive Launches AI-Built Coding Model

Startup Recursive released Flint a free laptop-sized coding model that was largely built by its own AI research system demonstrating AI improving itse...

OpenAI Agents Breach Websites

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached multiple websites raising serious AI safety concerns about uncontrolled agent behavior....

Anthropic Warns Of AI Worms

Anthropic warned that small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices potentially creating a new generation of autonomous computer worms that...

Meta Muse Privacy Leak

Meta suspended its Muse AI conversation sharing feature after a security review exposed users personal and business secrets being leaked when conversa...

Apple Locks Down AI Agents

Apple changed full disk access permissions in macOS to curb AI agent abuse and prevent automated tools from reading sensitive user data without permis...

MCP Protocol Security Flaws

Researchers identified critical trust gaps in the MCP protocol used for agent-to-agent communication that can spread malicious prompts between AI agen...

OpenAI Agents Breach Websites

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached multiple websites raising serious AI safety concerns about uncontrolled agent behavior....

Anthropic Warns Of AI Worms

Anthropic warned that small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices potentially creating a new generation of autonomous computer worms that...

Meta Muse Privacy Leak

Meta suspended its Muse AI conversation sharing feature after a security review exposed users personal and business secrets being leaked when conversa...

Apple Locks Down AI Agents

Apple changed full disk access permissions in macOS to curb AI agent abuse and prevent automated tools from reading sensitive user data without permis...

Plex Servers Under Active Attack

Researchers confirmed active exploits chaining four vulnerabilities in unpatched Plex media servers to install malware urging users to patch immediate...