Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Max subscription, priced at $500 per month, has surfaced inside the platform's subscription interface, featuring "Fastest Work and Codex" access, 100GB of file storage, and the company's most capable frontier models.
Sara Montes de Oca · 39 DAYS AGO
Meta's Muse AI personal agent has topped Apple's App Store and sent Meta's stock up more than 20% since launch, but Amazon has blocked the agent from its platform, citing terms-of-service violations — a conflict that analysts say may define the future of agentic commerce.
Marc Sabatini · 40 DAYS AGO
President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet Thursday, with AI safety, Nvidia chip export controls, and allegations of AI "distillation" shaping a high-stakes but likely inconclusive summit agenda.
TechEchelon Staff · 41 DAYS AGO
Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chipset family on Tuesday, built on TSMC's 2-nanometer process and designed for on-device AI workloads, as the global smartphone market is projected to shrink 14% in units shipped in 2026.
Sara Montes de Oca · 42 DAYS AGO
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei are set to address the UN Security Council on Wednesday as AI safety concerns reach a boiling point, even as President Trump told the General Assembly he will "encourage" the technology with minimal guardrails.
Marc Sabatini · 42 DAYS AGO
President Trump said the DOJ will rein in AI risks "if we have to," even as newly unsealed statements from OpenAI and Microsoft executives dealt a blow to the companies' fair-use defense in the ongoing New York Times copyright lawsuit.
Marc Sabatini · 43 DAYS AGO
The Congressional Black Caucus said at least 60 of its 62 members would vote for AI regulation legislation, as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent separately proposed a bilateral U.S.-China AI notification system ahead of potential Trump-Xi talks.
Sara Montes de Oca · 43 DAYS AGO
A Brookings Institution fellow is calling for dedicated "robot relations" departments as AI scheduling, monitoring, and management tools draw scrutiny from legislators, labor unions, and workers across U.S. industries.
Marc Sabatini · 44 DAYS AGO
The U.S. Department of the Navy has released an updated five-category technology priorities list, covering applied AI, quantum information science, advanced networking, electromagnetic spectrum operations, and digital engineering — with the explicit goal of steering private investment toward defense-relevant sectors.
Jay Goldberg · 45 DAYS AGO
Waymo announced plans to launch a commercial robotaxi service in Singapore by 2028, with vehicles set to arrive in the coming months for mapping and testing ahead of a 2027 safety review process.
Jay Goldberg · 46 DAYS AGO
Anthropic published three metrics Thursday — covering AI-led R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation — designed to help AI companies measure and report on how quickly they are developing, following CEO Dario Amodei's call for an industry slowdown.
TechEchelon Staff · 47 DAYS AGO
Palantir CEO Alex Karp called for nationalization of AI labs and civil and criminal liability for irresponsible developers, while Pentagon CTO Emil Michael argued against government stakes or new regulations for the AI industry.
Marc Sabatini · 47 DAYS AGO
Snap is partnering with Nvidia, Amazon Web Services, and Salesforce to push its $2,195 Specs augmented reality glasses into the enterprise market, while also launching a new consumer AI assistant called Specs Intelligence.
Sara Montes de Oca · 48 DAYS AGO
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC the tech industry has done a "tone deaf" job explaining AI risks, calling for substantive debate over politically motivated framing as concerns about recursive self-improvement mount at OpenAI and Anthropic.
Sara Montes de Oca · 48 DAYS AGO
A new report from the Progressive Policy Institute finds that Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft collectively account for more than half of a key U.S. capital investment benchmark, driven almost entirely by AI infrastructure spending.
Jay Goldberg · 48 DAYS AGO
Semiconductor shares, data center REITs, and AI-linked stocks fell Monday as industry warnings over AI development pace rattled markets, even as President Trump called the backlash a "hoax" and Digital Realty's CEO said any slowdown is "not end of the world" for data center real estate.
Jay Goldberg · 49 DAYS AGO
A proposal by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to slow frontier AI model development triggered broad declines in infrastructure and energy stocks Monday, raising fresh questions about the durability of the U.S. data center buildout.
TechEchelon Staff · 49 DAYS AGO
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan reaffirmed the company's AI semiconductor revenue forecasts of $115 billion in fiscal 2027 and $230 billion in fiscal 2028, even as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call for slower AI development rattled chip stocks Monday.
Marc Sabatini · 50 DAYS AGO
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