Archive — page 51 of 60
1,799 stories

EU Commission opens talks with OpenAI and Anthropic on frontier AI models
Brussels is engaging directly with the two US labs as it works out how its AI rules apply to the most capable systems.

Hollywood writers turn to AI data-labeling gigs at $52 to $150 an hour
Out-of-work TV writers are training chatbots for Mercor, Outlier and Turing, joining a contractor economy that's volatile, opaque and growing fast.

Nvidia's real moat is CUDA, not silicon
A matrix multiply that takes three lines in PyTorch takes 50-plus in CUDA — and that gap is why AMD and Intel keep losing.

Cerebras lifts IPO price range to $150-$160 on strong demand
The AI chipmaker is raising its target ahead of pricing as order books fill, pushing Cerebras toward a richer public-market debut.

Jensen Huang tells Carnegie Mellon's Class of 2026 their careers start at the AI revolution
NVIDIA's CEO delivered the keynote at CMU's 128th commencement, framing AI as a once-in-a-generation chance to reindustrialize America.

Anthropic blames sci-fi tropes for Claude's blackmail behavior in tests
The company says training on stories of AI behaving admirably cut blackmail attempts from up to 96% to zero in Claude Haiku 4.5.

Wispr Flow's India growth hits 100% as Hinglish voice push lands
The Bay Area voice-input startup says India is now its second-largest market, with 14% of 2.5M global downloads and aggressive local pricing.

Nvidia commits $40B to AI equity deals in early 2026, led by $30B OpenAI bet
Seven multi-billion-dollar checks into public companies and two dozen private rounds put Nvidia at the center of the AI capital cycle.

Brockman and Zilis testify Musk pushed for-profit OpenAI and tried to poach Altman
Week two of Musk v. Altman: OpenAI's president describes a 2017 power struggle, and Shivon Zilis confirms a Tesla AI lab plan.

Anthropic signs $1.8B cloud deal with Akamai to expand Claude capacity
The agreement adds another infrastructure partner for Anthropic as Claude demand outpaces existing compute commitments with Amazon and Google.

Sony tells investors AI tools will accelerate the flood of new games
PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino says AI animation work that took hours now finishes in a fraction of a second.

Intel stock is up 490% in a year as Lip-Bu Tan courts Apple, Tesla, and Musk
Wall Street is pricing a turnaround that hasn't shown up in chip yields yet, with TSMC still ahead and execution thin on specifics.

Google adds more website links to AI Overviews after publisher backlash
New "Further Exploration" and "Expert Advice" sections will surface external links inside AI Overviews and AI Mode, with subscription integrations in testing.

Anthropic Targets $1 Trillion Valuation as IPO Bankers Pitch $400bn-$500bn Listing
Sovereign wealth funds, Google and Amazon are backing a fresh Anthropic round as Goldman and JPMorgan circle a late-2026 public offering.

SpaceX Commits $55bn to Texas AI Chip Fab, With Spend Potentially Reaching $119bn
A Grimes County filing reveals SpaceX's TerraFab project, tied to Elon Musk's plan for 200 gigawatts of Earth compute and one terawatt in space.

Apple Readies Camera-Equipped AirPods With User-Pick AI Models for Siri
The earbuds will let owners route Siri through Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT, pushing Apple deeper into wearable AI hardware.

SpaceX Commits Up to $119 Billion for Texas AI Chip Plant
Elon Musk's rocket company files for tax breaks on TerraFab, a Grimes County compute facility, while leasing its first Memphis data center to Anthropic.

Musk Lawsuit Discovery Exposes 78 Texts Between Altman and Murati During OpenAI Ouster
Court discovery in the Musk v. Altman case unseals text messages and a 52-page Sutskever memo from the November 2023 boardroom rupture.

Anthropic Chases $1 Trillion Valuation as Sovereign Funds and Big Tech Pile In
Sovereign wealth funds, Google and Amazon are reportedly anchoring a round that values Anthropic at $1 trillion ahead of a 2026 IPO.

Sony says AI is a 'powerful tool' for PlayStation games as PS5 sales fall 46%
Naughty Dog and Santa Monica Studio are using Sony's Mockingbird animation tool, which finishes work in a fraction of a second that once took hours.

Microsoft feared OpenAI would 'storm off to Amazon' before $1B bet, emails show
Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial reveal Kevin Scott's January 2018 warning about OpenAI defecting to AWS — written a month before Microsoft committed.

Coinbase cuts 14% of staff and flattens its org chart around AI
Brian Armstrong is capping the company at five layers below the CEO and pushing managers to oversee 15 or more reports.

ECB studying defences against Mythos-powered attacks, Lagarde says
Christine Lagarde flagged AI-driven offensive tools as a fresh category of risk for European financial infrastructure.

Cloudflare cuts more than 1,100 jobs in AI-native reset
The internet infrastructure company is consolidating go-to-market teams and redirecting investment to AI Workers, developer platform, and zero-trust security.

Snap's $400M Perplexity deal collapses as Q1 revenue hits $1.53B
Snap returned to user growth with 483M DAU but lost its biggest generative AI revenue partner before it ever paid out.

SoftBank cuts OpenAI margin loan target by 40% to $6 billion
The Japanese conglomerate scaled back its fundraising goal against its OpenAI stake, a notable retreat from a deal once pitched at $10 billion.

AI plush toys for toddlers run on adult chatbots with almost no vetting
Over 1,500 AI toy makers are now active in China, and tests show the bears discuss BDSM, knives and CCP talking points to children as young as three.

US probes whether Nvidia chips reached Alibaba through Thailand
American officials suspect restricted Nvidia accelerators were routed to Alibaba via Thai intermediaries, testing the limits of US export controls.

Musk Seeks $134B and Altman's Ouster in OpenAI Nonprofit Lawsuit
Elon Musk's suit over OpenAI's for-profit conversion lands in court, with Anthropic lawyers watching and the company's IPO timeline at stake.

Mozilla details how Anthropic's Mythos found 271 Firefox bugs with almost no false positives
Mozilla unhid 12 Bugzilla reports to back its claim that an agent harness wrapping Mythos has effectively eliminated AI vulnerability slop.
Stay ahead of everyone in AI.
The tightly edited AI news email engineers, founders, and investors actually open. One email. Every weekday. Five minutes to finish.
The briefing read inside teams at