Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Microsoft unveiled two proprietary AI models at its Build developer conference — a coding model and a reasoning model — as it moves to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and offer developers lower-cost alternatives on Azure.
Jay Goldberg · 154 DAYS AGO
Nearly half of America's 857 unicorn startups have gone three years without fresh funding, PitchBook data shows, as the AI boom redirects capital toward AI-native firms and leaves pre-ChatGPT companies stranded with eroding valuations.
Jay Goldberg · 156 DAYS AGO
Nvidia's unveiling of the N1X PC processor at Computex, SoftBank's 75 billion-euro France AI commitment, and Wells Fargo's raised Microsoft price target converged on Monday to drive a broad rally in global technology stocks.
Sara Montes de Oca · 156 DAYS AGO
Cartoonist KC Green, creator of the "This is fine" meme, has settled with AI startup Artisan after the company used a version of his iconic dog-in-flames illustration in transit ads promoting its AI sales assistant Ava.
Sara Montes de Oca · 156 DAYS AGO
SoftBank Group plans to invest 45 billion euros over five years on AI data centers in France's Hauts-de-France region, part of a broader 75-billion-euro program representing the Japanese company's largest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe.
Sara Montes de Oca · 157 DAYS AGO
Microsoft is moving GitHub Copilot to token-based billing on June 1, replacing its flat subscription rate — a shift that some developers say could multiply their monthly costs by 10 to 60 times.
Sara Montes de Oca · 157 DAYS AGO
San Francisco startup Foundation Future Industries has tested humanoid robots in Ukraine and secured $24 million in U.S. government contracts, with CEO Sankaet Pathak targeting frontline military deployment within 18 months.
Jay Goldberg · 158 DAYS AGO
Illinois lawmakers passed SB 315, the nation's strongest AI safety law, requiring frontier AI firms to undergo independent third-party safety testing — a development that comes days after the Trump administration scrapped its own federal AI vetting plan.
Sara Montes de Oca · 159 DAYS AGO
Israel-based Wix is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce — just over 1,000 employees — with CEO Avishai Abrahami citing AI's rapid evolution and pressure from the strengthening Israeli shekel as key factors behind the decision.
Jay Goldberg · 159 DAYS AGO
Meta confirmed it will test two paid subscription tiers for its Meta AI app — Meta One Plus at $7.99 a month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 a month — beginning next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia.
Jay Goldberg · 160 DAYS AGO
Amazon is licensing the AI shopping technology behind Alexa for Shopping to other retailers through AWS, with Kate Spade among the first customers, as the company works to position its infrastructure at the center of AI-driven commerce across the web.
Jay Goldberg · 160 DAYS AGO
Robinhood unveiled Agentic Trading and an Agentic Credit Card on Wednesday, allowing AI agents to execute stock trades and make purchases on retail users' behalf with minimal human involvement.
Jay Goldberg · 161 DAYS AGO
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, calls for global oversight of artificial intelligence and an end to the AI arms race, arguing that technology concentrated among elites cannot serve the common good.
Jay Goldberg · 162 DAYS AGO
U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking compact AI tools that can operate without cloud connectivity, with voice control and autonomous planning agents among the top priorities outlined at SOF Week 2026 in Tampa.
Sara Montes de Oca · 163 DAYS AGO
Xreal CEO Chi Xu showcased Project Aura — wired OLED smart glasses tethered to a pocket-sized computing puck — at Google I/O, with a commercial launch planned for later in 2026 and an IPO expected before year's end.
Jay Goldberg · 163 DAYS AGO
Ferrari and IBM have teamed up to rebuild the Scuderia Ferrari HP fan app using enterprise AI, targeting personalized storytelling and year-round engagement for a fanbase that F1 says is 75% new arrivals.
Sara Montes de Oca · 164 DAYS AGO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Saturday that the company's $200 billion CPU market forecast includes China, even as U.S. export controls and a lack of Chinese regulatory approval have blocked H200 chip deliveries to the country.
Sara Montes de Oca · 164 DAYS AGO
Repeated outages at Microsoft's GitHub unit, fueled by a delayed migration to Azure and surging AI-driven usage, have opened the door for rivals like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code to chip away at the platform's dominance among developers.
Jay Goldberg · 166 DAYS AGO
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