Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate...
U.S. lawmakers have concerns about Apple-Alibaba deal
The Trump administration and congressional officials are scrutinizing a deal between Apple and Alibaba...
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be...
MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
MIT says that due to concerns about the “integrity” of a high-profile paper about...
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1M to hire three AI agents as employees
Y Combinator startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees, after...
OpenAI’s planned data center in Abu Dhabi would be bigger than Monaco
OpenAI is poised to help develop a staggering 5-gigawatt data center campus in Abu...
Google I/O 2025: What to expect, including updates to Gemini and Android 16
Google I/O, Google’s biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. Scheduled...
AI startup Cohere acquires Ottogrid, a platform for conducting market research
AI startup Cohere has acquired Ottogrid, a Vancouver-based platform that develops enterprise tools for...
AI video startup Moonvalley lands $53M, according to filing
Roughly a month after Moonvalley, a Los Angeles-based startup developing AI tools for video creation,...
Is $1 billion a lot of money these days?
Databricks just snatched up another AI company. This week, the data analytics giant announced...
OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most...
xAI blames Grok’s obsession with white genocide on an ‘unauthorized modification’
xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that...
Sam Altman’s goal for ChatGPT to remember ‘your whole life’ is both exciting and disturbing
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT...
Vibe-coding startup Windsurf launches in-house AI models
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced...
Fake fired Twitter worker ‘Rahul Ligma’ is a real engineer with an AI data startup used by Harvard
The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two...
Programmers bore the brunt of Microsoft’s layoffs in its home state as AI writes up to 30% of its code
Microsoft's Washington layoffs hit coders hardest as the tech giant embraces AI....
Anthropic’s lawyer was forced to apologize after Claude hallucinated a legal citation
A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s...
Google rolls out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to...
Cognichip emerges from stealth with the goal of using generative AI to develop new chips
Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don’t hit...
Hedra, the app used to make talking baby podcasts, raises $32M from a16z
Hedra, which offers a video generation and editing suite powered by its Character-3 model,...
AI transforms Bitcoin price prediction and market strategy
AI is transforming industries worldwide, and its growing impact on digital finance is becoming...
Will the AI boom fuel a global energy crisis?
AI’s thirst for energy is ballooning into a monster of a challenge. And it’s...
Can the US really enforce a global AI chip ban?
When Huawei shocked the global tech industry with its Mate 60 Pro smartphone featuring...
Congress pushes GPS tracking for every exported semiconductor
America’s quest to protect its semiconductor technology from China has taken increasingly dramatic turns...
Why Microsoft is cutting roles despite strong earnings
Microsoft is cutting about 7,000 jobs, or 3% of its workforce. The move isn’t...
AI in business intelligence: Caveat emptor
One of the ways in which organisations are using the latest AI algorithms to...
AI tool speeds up government feedback, experts urge caution
An AI tool aims to wade through mountains of government feedback and understand what...
Alibaba Wan2.1-VACE: Open-source AI video tool for all
Alibaba has unveiled Wan2.1-VACE, an open-source AI model designed to shake up how we...
US slams brakes on AI Diffusion Rule, hardens chip export curbs
The Department of Commerce (DOC) has slammed the brakes on the sweeping “AI Diffusion...
Saudi Arabia moves to build its AI future with HUMAIN and NVIDIA
Saudi Arabia’s new state subsidiary, HUMAIN, is collaborating with NVIDIA to build AI infrastructure,...
FDA AI deployment: Innovation vs oversight in drug regulation
The US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has stated that it wants to accelerate...
Google’s AI Futures Fund may have to tread carefully
Google’s recent announcement of an AI Futures Fund shows the company wants to invest...