Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
A Goldman Sachs report finds AI is already depressing hiring in call centers, software publishing, management consulting, and advertising, with entry-level workers bearing the heaviest burden across major developed economies.
Jay Goldberg · 31 DAYS AGO
Startup Nome uses a proprietary AI platform to build drug development roadmaps for ultra-rare disease patient groups, serving communities too small to attract traditional pharmaceutical industry investment.
Marc Sabatini · 32 DAYS AGO
Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion in financing for an OpenAI data center in Pike County, Ohio, according to a securities filing, with SB Energy building and managing the facility through a 20-year lease beginning in phases in 2028.
Marc Sabatini · 33 DAYS AGO
An Airtag hidden inside a rare book tracked a bulk order to an Amazon AI training facility in Las Vegas, where workers systematically destroy books after scanning them for AI training data, according to an investigation by 404 Media.
Jay Goldberg · 33 DAYS AGO
Flock Safety announced changes to its privacy and data retention policies Thursday as the AI-powered license plate reader company faces a growing wave of privacy lawsuits, terminated contracts, and civil liberties criticism across the country.
Jay Goldberg · 34 DAYS AGO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei rejected claims that his risk-focused AI warnings have fueled public backlash, arguing instead that skepticism toward AI reflects a decades-long erosion of trust in corporations and the tech industry broadly.
Jay Goldberg · 34 DAYS AGO
Rivian's Autonomy+ system has outpaced GM's Super Cruise in highway performance but still trails Tesla's FSD on city streets and point-to-point driving, according to a multi-hundred-mile comparative evaluation. Rivian says full point-to-point capability is expected before year's end.
Sara Montes de Oca · 35 DAYS AGO
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told investors Friday that the company's enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer ChatGPT products, with the annualized revenue run rate reaching $40 billion — ahead of the company's own internal forecasts.
Marc Sabatini · 36 DAYS AGO
Apple CEO Tim Cook and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick opened a new Houston manufacturing facility Thursday that will produce Mac Mini computers and AI servers, underscoring the company's ongoing push to expand its U.S. production presence.
TechEchelon Staff · 37 DAYS AGO
Meta and Nvidia each released open-weight AI models this week, joining a broader U.S. industry push to compete with Chinese laboratories as the debate over open-source AI regulation intensifies in Washington.
Sara Montes de Oca · 38 DAYS AGO
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's former chief operating officer and an eight-year veteran of the company, announced Tuesday he is departing to start a new venture, adding to a string of senior leadership exits at the AI lab.
Sara Montes de Oca · 39 DAYS AGO
London's King's Cross neighborhood, once one of the city's most troubled districts, has emerged as a global AI hub rivaling San Francisco and Beijing, drawing OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, and hundreds of startups as office vacancy rates fall to 0.9%.
Sara Montes de Oca · 41 DAYS AGO
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI has cut feature development time by as much as 60% and increased features shipped by nearly 80%, as the company prepares to begin testing a natural-language AI search toggle for users.
Marc Sabatini · 42 DAYS AGO
ByteDance is training an AI model with as many as 10 trillion parameters — three times the size of the largest Chinese model released to date — in a push to rival Anthropic's most advanced systems without relying on model distillation.
Sara Montes de Oca · 42 DAYS AGO
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky credited artificial intelligence as the primary driver of the company's strongest growth quarter in years, saying the company will spend "a lot more" on AI tokens than forecast as shares surged 15% on Friday.
Marc Sabatini · 43 DAYS AGO
Chinese AI models are closing the performance gap with U.S. frontier systems and gaining global adoption, but American compute dominance and export controls continue to constrain Beijing's ability to scale, analysts say.
Sara Montes de Oca · 43 DAYS AGO
SK Hynix said Friday it will spend $38.1 billion to build two new memory chip plants in South Korea, with construction on both facilities set to begin in early 2027 and production targeted for 2028 and 2029, as AI-driven demand strains global memory supply.
Sara Montes de Oca · 43 DAYS AGO
Grindr reported second-quarter revenue of $138 million, up 33% year over year, and raised its 2026 guidance as CEO George Arison said the company's AI investment is delivering measurable gains in engineering output and subscription growth.
Sara Montes de Oca · 44 DAYS AGO
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