Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century â from âBatman: Year 100,â in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to âBattling Boy,â with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But itâs been more than a decade since Popeâs last major comics […]
Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAIâs former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.
The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 […]
ChatGPT, OpenAIâs text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership […]
Karandeep Anand comes to Character.AI with experience running advertising products that reached billions of users on Meta's apps.
Deezer announced on Friday that it will start labeling albums that include AI-generated tracks as part of its efforts to combat streaming fraud. The company reports that about 18% of the music uploaded each day — more than 20,000 tracks — is now fully AI-generated. Although most of these tracks don’t go viral, Deezer says […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever ultimately turned Meta down, according to CNBC, but the company is now in talks to hire Safe […]
The investing conglomerate is looking to team up with TSMC on the initiative as SoftBank continues to pour money into AI.
After months of rumors, Meta has officially announced its next pair of smart glasses with Oakley.
It’s already been a tumultuous year for the U.S. semiconductor industry. The semiconductor industry plays a sizable role in the “AI race” that the U.S. seems determined to win, which is why this context is worth paying attention to: from Intel’s appointment of Lip-Bu Tan to CEO â who wasted no time getting to work […]
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments.
Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. How will 2025 compare?
Across hundreds of thousands of years of human existence, an impossible question has befuddled our species: why is the baby crying?! Sam Altman, who is both the father of a three-month-old and CEO of OpenAI, hopped on OpenAI’s new podcast today to talk about how his company is impacting his experience with fatherhood. Altman, who […]
In Base44's six months as a stand-alone company, it reportedly grew to 250,000 users and nearly $200,000 in monthly profits.
Multiplier raised Series A and seed funding from Lightspeed and Ribbit Capital.
Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generation startups, announced on Wednesday the launch of its much-anticipated AI video generation model, V1. V1 is an image-to-video model, in which users can upload an image â or take an image generated by one of Midjourney’s other models â and V1 will produce a set of […]
OpenAI is phasing out its work with Scale AI and cutting ties with the data provider following Meta’s deal with the startup, an OpenAI spokesperson told Bloomberg on Wednesday. Sarah Friar, the chief financial officer of OpenAI, previously suggested the company would continue its work with Scale AI. Now, it appears OpenAI has changed its […]
The Colossus data center was allegedly operating as many as 35 gas turbines without pollution controls in a region that already had poor air quality.
OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations â the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans â OpenAI researchers were able […]
âThe OpenAI Files,â an archival project from the Midas Project and the Tech Oversight Project, are a âcollection of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.â
Digg launched its iOS app to testers who are a part of its Groundbreakers community of early adopters.
Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode.
Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy, even as the technology industry has spent years attempting to make friends with the Vatican.Â
The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it occurred over âthe most legendary party that never happened."
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta tried to poach its employees with nine-figure offers, but failed to recruit OpenAI's best people.
The contract could put the model maker in competition with the OpenAI services that Microsoft wants to sell to the DoD.
AI companies are battling to dominate the industry, but sometimes, they’re also battling in Pokémon gyms. As Google and Anthropic both study how their latest AI models navigate early Pokémon games, the results can be as amusing as they are enlightening — and this time, Google DeepMind has written in a report that Gemini 2.5 […]
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy expects that AI automations will both change how people work and change the number of people needed.
Meta is reportedly working on a pair of AI smart glasses with Prada.
Rumors of these layoffs began back in April as Intel looks to refocus on its core business units and shed additional bloat.
Anysphere launched a new $200-a-month subscription plan for its popular AI coding tool, Cursor, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The new plan, Ultra, offers users 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI compared to the company’s $20-a-month subscription plan, Pro. Anysphere also says Cursor users […]
Chatbots are increasingly looking to keep people chatting, using familiar tactics that we’ve already seen lead to negative consequences. Sycophancy can make AI chatbots respond in a way that’s overly agreeable or flattering. And while having a digital hype person might not seem like a dangerous thing, it is actually a tactic used by tech […]
Elon Musk's xAI company is looking to raise $4.3 billion in equity funding, adding onto the $5 billion it's seeking in debt funding.
The digital health startup says it secured the fresh capital to update its valuation and finance acquisitions.
Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1 billion, almost doubling in three years from its last round in 2022. With the influx of cash, the startup is looking to expand its engineering base in India and develop its AI agent. […]
The tech industry talks a lot about how AI is going to transform work. Legal startup Crosby, which just came out of stealth, is an extreme example.
OpenAI and Microsoft have an increasingly strained relationship, according to a recent WSJ report.
ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking, according to a recent feature in The New York Times.
Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources needed to build AI chips, due to Taiwanese export controls.
Metaâs massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startupâs biggest customers pause. Reuters reports that Google had planned to pay Scale AI $200 million this year but is now planning to cut ties with the startup and is having conversations with its competitors.
Alphabet-owned robotaxi company Waymo is limiting service due to Saturdayâs scheduled nationwide âNo Kingsâ protests against President Donald Trump and his policies.
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
The sales automation startup doubles its valuation a month after launching a tender offer at $1.5 billion.
Google Search is testing Audio Overviews for certain search queries, the company announced on Friday.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he isn't confident that the U.S. will change its mind on chip export restrictions anytime soon.
Data-labeling firm Scale AI confirmed on Friday that it has received a "significant" investment from Meta that values the startup at $29 billion.
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.
Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he left Tesla.
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced several AI features, such as a workout coach, live translation, and more.
Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toy-making and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.