Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner has made four music datasets — containing as many as 12 million tracks and used to train AI models — fully searchable by the public, revealing that artists from Lady Gaga to Radiohead appear in AI training pipelines.
Sara Montes de Oca · 38 DAYS AGO
Reliance Industries unveiled Jio Call Agent, an AI phone assistant for its 500 million-plus subscribers, alongside a home display device and sector-specific AI tools, while disclosing that Jio Platforms' board has approved a draft IPO prospectus for up to 270 million new shares.
Jay Goldberg · 39 DAYS AGO
OpenAI is hiring Google DeepMind researcher Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI official Dean Ball as the company builds out its policy and research ranks ahead of a public offering.
Jay Goldberg · 39 DAYS AGO
Amazon is investigating three engineers who testified before the Seattle City Council in support of a one-year moratorium on AI data center construction, prompting a civil rights complaint alleging the company violated a local ordinance protecting employee political speech.
Sara Montes de Oca · 40 DAYS AGO
Waymo has recalled nearly 3,900 robotaxis after 13 incidents in which vehicles entered closed freeway construction zones in Phoenix and San Francisco, marking the company's second voluntary recall in just over a month.
Sara Montes de Oca · 40 DAYS AGO
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimously Thursday to allow AI data centers and other large power users to connect more quickly to the U.S. electric grid, advancing a Trump administration priority amid rising public concern over electricity costs and grid reliability.
Sara Montes de Oca · 40 DAYS AGO
A new study by climate risk analytics firm First Street finds that 79% of global data center capacity is exposed to acute climate hazards including flooding, extreme winds, and wildfires, with the Asia-Pacific region carrying the highest share of risk.
Sara Montes de Oca · 41 DAYS AGO
Allbirds rebranded to Smartbird and named Nadia Carlsten — former head of AWS's quantum computing center — as its new CEO, sending shares up 39% as the company deepens its pivot from footwear to AI infrastructure.
Sara Montes de Oca · 41 DAYS AGO
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led international AI coalition at a closed-door G7 summit meeting in France on Wednesday, joined by roughly a dozen tech executives including OpenAI's Sam Altman.
Sara Montes de Oca · 41 DAYS AGO
CEOs from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google joined G7 world leaders in Evian-les-Bains on Wednesday for a working lunch on AI policy, as export control disputes and frontier model risks dominate the geopolitical agenda.
Sara Montes de Oca · 41 DAYS AGO
Databricks reported annualized revenue of $6.9 billion, up more than 80% year over year, but CEO Ali Ghodsi warned that margins will continue to shrink as AI agent deployments drive higher infrastructure costs.
Jay Goldberg · 42 DAYS AGO
Intel has entered risk production on its most-advanced chip node, 18A-P, at the VLSI Symposium in Honolulu, moving the company closer to a potential deal to manufacture chips for Apple and other outside customers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 42 DAYS AGO
Snap launched Specs, its first AR glasses for mainstream consumers, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit. CEO Evan Spiegel is betting on a shift away from smartphone screens, even as analysts warn of a tough market and the company has yet to turn a profit.
Jay Goldberg · 42 DAYS AGO
Mobileye Global said it will deploy an initial 100-vehicle robotaxi fleet in a major U.S. city in 2027, with plans to scale to roughly 17,000 vehicles over five years, placing the self-driving supplier in direct competition with its own customers.
Sara Montes de Oca · 42 DAYS AGO
Real estate executives including Coldwell Banker's Kamini Lane and Ryan Serhant are warning that buyers and sellers using ChatGPT and other general-purpose AI tools to price properties are disrupting deals, as Zillow pushes a more context-aware alternative.
Jay Goldberg · 42 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration's sudden order forcing Anthropic to take Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline for foreign users has intensified calls from the UK, France, Canada, and others to build domestic AI capacity and reduce dependence on American technology.
Jay Goldberg · 43 DAYS AGO
The White House reportedly suspects a China-linked group accessed Anthropic's powerful Mythos AI model, adding a national security dimension to the administration's recent export restrictions on the system. Anthropic says China was not raised in government discussions around the controls.
Sara Montes de Oca · 44 DAYS AGO
KPMG has pulled a report on agentic AI after UBS, the NHS, Swiss Federal Railways, and Transport for London said its claims about their AI usage were inaccurate, with research group GPTZero attributing the errors to AI hallucinations.
Jay Goldberg · 45 DAYS AGO
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