Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
Samsung Electronics has signed a memorandum of understanding with Broadcom covering memory chips, contract manufacturing, and advanced packaging in a collaboration projected to exceed $200 billion through 2030, bolstering Samsung's foundry ambitions against TSMC.
Jay Goldberg · 56 DAYS AGO
The EPA is considering a rule change that would let states decide how much public participation — if any — is required for air pollution permits covering diesel generators and gas plants used to power AI data centers.
Marc Sabatini · 56 DAYS AGO
Waymo will launch its own standalone app in Atlanta and Austin in January 2028, ending a three-year exclusivity arrangement that made Uber the sole platform for its robotaxi service in those two cities.
Sara Montes de Oca · 57 DAYS AGO
The Trump administration announced $5 billion in AI-focused "Genesis Mission" science grants Thursday, but researchers warn the initiative's venture-capital model fundamentally misunderstands how scientific discovery works.
Jay Goldberg · 57 DAYS AGO
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told investors that only 2% of the company's software is at risk of AI displacement, even as a 42% drop in mainframe revenue dragged down transaction processing software and prompted IBM to cut its full-year software growth forecast.
Jay Goldberg · 58 DAYS AGO
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott promoted the company's AI Control Tower and kill-switch capability on Wednesday, one day after OpenAI disclosed that one of its agents escaped a testing environment and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure.
Marc Sabatini · 59 DAYS AGO
OpenAI and Anthropic spent a combined $3.17 million on federal lobbying in Q2 2026 — a record for both companies and a 23% jump from the prior quarter — as the AI industry ramps up its Washington presence ahead of anticipated IPOs and midterm elections.
TechEchelon Staff · 60 DAYS AGO
Alphabet shares rose 1.51% Monday after reports emerged that Google is developing a specialized server chip called "Frozen v2," projected to deliver six to ten times the power efficiency of its current TPUs when running Gemini AI models.
Marc Sabatini · 61 DAYS AGO
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation just three months after the Trump administration appointed him, adding to growing uncertainty over U.S. AI policy leadership as Chinese AI models gain ground domestically.
TechEchelon Staff · 61 DAYS AGO
Moonshot AI and Alibaba unveiled rival frontier AI models this weekend, claiming performance comparable to OpenAI and Anthropic's best systems while making their models publicly available — a move that sharpens the U.S.-China AI rivalry.
Sara Montes de Oca · 61 DAYS AGO
Researchers and business school professors say workers who use AI to outsource critical thinking risk professional stagnation, eroded workplace trust, and a weakened sense of professional identity, even as adoption rates surpass 43% in the U.S.
Marc Sabatini · 62 DAYS AGO
Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3 sent the Nasdaq down roughly 1% on Friday and reignited debate over China's open source AI progress, drawing sharp reactions from U.S. policy figures and industry executives.
TechEchelon Staff · 63 DAYS AGO
Patreon has stopped relying on robots.txt requests and begun actively blocking AI training bots through a partnership with Cloudflare, after finding that scrapers were ignoring the platform's instructions entirely.
Marc Sabatini · 64 DAYS AGO
Amazon-owned Zoox has voluntarily recalled software in 105 robotaxis after one of its vehicles failed to detect heavy smoke and drove into an active fire scene in Las Vegas on June 20, drawing renewed federal scrutiny of the autonomous vehicle industry.
Marc Sabatini · 64 DAYS AGO
Anthropic is scheduling meetings with investors ahead of a potential IPO this year, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan Chase involved in planning. The Claude maker, last valued at $965 billion, confidentially filed its prospectus with regulators last month.
Sara Montes de Oca · 65 DAYS AGO
Bengaluru-based vibe-coding startup Emergent AI raised $300 million at a $1.5 billion valuation on Wednesday, becoming India's second AI unicorn in a month and underscoring the country's growing ambitions in the global AI race.
Marc Sabatini · 65 DAYS AGO
Citi raised its Microsoft Copilot adoption estimates Wednesday, projecting M365 Copilot net adds of 8 million in fiscal Q4 and forecasting accelerating revenue and EPS growth through fiscal 2030, even as it trimmed its price target to $570 from $620.
Jay Goldberg · 66 DAYS AGO
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a lawsuit alleging the company's AI-assisted layoff process discriminated against workers on protected medical or family leave by relying on metrics those employees could not accumulate while absent.
Marc Sabatini · 67 DAYS AGO
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