AI News & Articles

India doubles down on state-backed venture capital, approving $1.1B fund

India’s $1.1B fund-of-funds will invest through private VCs to support deep-tech and manufacturing startups....

Airbnb plans to bake in AI features for search, discovery and support

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said the company wants to increase its use of large...

Airbnb says a third of its customer support is now handled by AI in the US and Canada

Airbnb was poised to introduce an app that doesn't just search for you, but...

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company...

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several...

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company...

Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10

The numbers suggest that Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials, combined with Anthropic's recent release of...

Elon Musk suggests spate of xAI exits have been push, not pull

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in...

Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify...

Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot....

IBM will hire your entry-level talent in the age of AI

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, but these...

Musk needed a new vision for SpaceX and xAI. He landed on Moonbase Alpha.

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting...

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on ‘agentic’ autopilot

Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s...

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying...

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development....

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the...

xAI lays out interplanetary ambitions in public all-hands

On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation...

AI inference startup Modal Labs in talks to raise at $2.5B valuation, sources say

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according...

OpenAI disbands mission alignment team

The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while...

AI forecasting model targets healthcare resource efficiency

An operational AI forecasting model developed by Hertfordshire University researchers aims to improve resource...

What Murder Mystery 2 reveals about emergent behaviour in online games

Murder Mystery 2, commonly known as MM2, is often categorised as a simple social...

Agentic AI drives finance ROI in accounts payable automation

Finance leaders are driving ROI using agentic AI for accounts payable automation, turning manual...

Newsweek CEO Dev Pragad warns publishers: adapt as AI becomes news gateway

Author: Dev Pragad, CEO, Newsweek As artificial intelligence platforms increasingly mediate how people encounter...

How e& is using HR to bring AI into enterprise operations

For many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or...

Alibaba enters physical AI race with open-source robot model RynnBrain

Alibaba has entered the race to build AI that powers robots, not just chatbots....

AI deployment in financial services hits an inflection point as Singapore leads the shift to production

AI deployment in financial services has crossed a critical threshold, with only 2% of...

Google identifies state-sponsored hackers using AI in attacks

State-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with...

Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns

Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion...

How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs

Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts...

Red Hat unifies AI and tactical edge deployment for UK MOD

The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has selected Red Hat to architect a unified...

Chinese hyperscalers and industry-specific agentic AI

Major Chinese technology companies Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei are pursuing agentic AI (systems that...