Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Jeff Dean is leaving Google after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop alongside Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals, and Quoc Le, extending a string of senior AI researcher departures even as Google Cloud reported 82% revenue growth in the second quarter.
Jay Goldberg · 44 DAYS AGO
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced that OpenAI and former subsidiary Statsig signed a $3.2 million settlement covering alleged immigration law violations, placing both companies under three years of federal oversight of their green-card hiring practices.
Jay Goldberg · 45 DAYS AGO
Google announced a sweeping AI leadership shake-up on Wednesday, with chief scientist Jeff Dean departing after 27 years to start a new company and Demis Hassabis stepping back from the CEO role at Google DeepMind to become its chairman and Alphabet's new chief scientist.
Jay Goldberg · 45 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration's AI model-testing framework excludes open-source models entirely, sets a 30-day government review window for closed models, and leaves key terms like "national security risk" undefined, raising questions about the initiative's practical reach.
Sara Montes de Oca · 45 DAYS AGO
Anthropic has named Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, a former California Supreme Court justice and Carnegie Endowment president, as its first chief global affairs officer, as the Claude developer faces ongoing U.S. government tensions including a Pentagon blacklisting and export controls on its top AI models.
Sara Montes de Oca · 46 DAYS AGO
Palantir posted second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, with U.S. commercial revenue surging 149% to $764 million, prompting the AI software company to raise its full-year guidance and sending its stock up 12%.
Jay Goldberg · 47 DAYS AGO
Archewell Philanthropies, the charitable organization of Prince Harry and Meghan, is urging Congress to act on AI deepfake legislation and accusing Big Tech of retaliating against child safety measures.
Marc Sabatini · 47 DAYS AGO
June, a startup founded by former Salesforce executives, exited stealth Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures to help large enterprises automate the complex process of deploying AI tools within existing corporate systems.
TechEchelon Staff · 47 DAYS AGO
Apple's MacBook Air is now facing supply constraints tied to the global memory chip shortage, with delivery times slipping into late August and September as AI infrastructure spending by major tech companies strains semiconductor availability.
Sara Montes de Oca · 48 DAYS AGO
Apple is expected to debut its first foldable iPhone alongside the iPhone 18 Pro models next month, with IDC predicting it will capture 34 percent of the foldable market by value in its first year, potentially pulling the long-niche category toward the mainstream.
Marc Sabatini · 48 DAYS AGO
Pippa, a text-to-video startup that launched in May, pays artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video each time their style is used — but its models still rely on open training data scraped without creators' consent.
Jay Goldberg · 48 DAYS AGO
Uber has built a network of more than 30 autonomous vehicle partners over two years, spanning robotaxis, self-driving trucks, and delivery robots across multiple continents, according to a comprehensive deal tracker published Friday by TechCrunch.
Marc Sabatini · 49 DAYS AGO
A discarded SpaceX upper stage is expected to strike the moon Wednesday at 5,400 mph near Einstein Crater, an unintentional collision that scientists say will produce observable data on space debris risks to future lunar missions.
Jay Goldberg · 50 DAYS AGO
AI spending among the largest technology companies is projected to reach $765 billion in 2026 and nearly $1.2 trillion in 2027, as Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all reported deteriorating cash positions amid a worsening memory chip shortage.
Sara Montes de Oca · 50 DAYS AGO
The Model Context Protocol's largest update since its remote launch rewrites its core as a stateless architecture, targeting the scalability and reliability gaps that have kept enterprise adoption limited.
Marc Sabatini · 51 DAYS AGO
Amazon-owned Zoox received a temporary NHTSA exemption on Thursday allowing it to deploy up to 2,500 vehicles annually and begin charging fares, with paid robotaxi rides in Las Vegas set to launch next month.
Marc Sabatini · 51 DAYS AGO
Samsung Electronics reported a record second-quarter operating profit of 89.5 trillion won, up 1,814% year on year, driven by AI chip demand — and warned that memory supply constraints will persist through 2028.
Sara Montes de Oca · 51 DAYS AGO
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the tension between leasing excess AI computing capacity to outside customers and preserving it for internal model development, as the company raised the low end of its 2026 capex guidance to $130 billion and reported free cash flow fell 90% year over year.
TechEchelon Staff · 52 DAYS AGO
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