Coverage of model development, deployment policy, infrastructure economics, and the regulatory fights that will decide who profits and who pays.
OpenAI confirmed it will comply with President Trump's executive order requiring AI companies to submit models for federal benchmarking 30 days before release, with the company's head of countries calling government oversight "quite right."
Sara Montes de Oca · 54 DAYS AGO
A bipartisan pair of House lawmakers released a discussion draft of a national AI framework on Thursday, proposing to override state AI model development regulations for three years while expanding federal research and minimizing risks.
Sara Montes de Oca · 54 DAYS AGO
Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's Sam Altman, Microsoft's Mustafa Suleyman, and other AI leaders have signed an open letter urging Congress to mandate screening of synthetic DNA and RNA orders for sequences that could be used to engineer dangerous pathogens.
Jay Goldberg · 54 DAYS AGO
CISA Acting Director Nick Andersen said a binding operational directive implementing Trump's AI executive order will be released by week's end, as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman separately met with congressional leaders and White House officials in Washington.
Sara Montes de Oca · 55 DAYS AGO
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman met with House Speaker Mike Johnson, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Trump administration officials in Washington on Wednesday, following President Trump's signing of an executive order on artificial intelligence.
Jay Goldberg · 55 DAYS AGO
Uber is cutting 23% of its people division, including HR and recruitment staff, as CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the restructuring is "necessary" — even as the company insists the layoffs are not driven by AI.
Jay Goldberg · 55 DAYS AGO
Meta unveiled Meta Business Agent on Wednesday, an AI tool for businesses embedded across WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram, as the company works to reduce its roughly 98% dependence on advertising revenue.
Sara Montes de Oca · 55 DAYS AGO
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called Marvell Technology the "next trillion-dollar company" during a joint appearance at Computex Week in Taipei, sending Marvell shares up 32.52% — the stock's biggest single-day gain on record.
Jay Goldberg · 56 DAYS AGO
Microsoft unveiled two proprietary AI models at its Build developer conference — a coding model and a reasoning model — as it moves to reduce its reliance on OpenAI and offer developers lower-cost alternatives on Azure.
Jay Goldberg · 56 DAYS AGO
Nearly half of America's 857 unicorn startups have gone three years without fresh funding, PitchBook data shows, as the AI boom redirects capital toward AI-native firms and leaves pre-ChatGPT companies stranded with eroding valuations.
Jay Goldberg · 57 DAYS AGO
Nvidia's unveiling of the N1X PC processor at Computex, SoftBank's 75 billion-euro France AI commitment, and Wells Fargo's raised Microsoft price target converged on Monday to drive a broad rally in global technology stocks.
Sara Montes de Oca · 58 DAYS AGO
Cartoonist KC Green, creator of the "This is fine" meme, has settled with AI startup Artisan after the company used a version of his iconic dog-in-flames illustration in transit ads promoting its AI sales assistant Ava.
Sara Montes de Oca · 58 DAYS AGO
SoftBank Group plans to invest 45 billion euros over five years on AI data centers in France's Hauts-de-France region, part of a broader 75-billion-euro program representing the Japanese company's largest AI infrastructure commitment in Europe.
Sara Montes de Oca · 58 DAYS AGO
Microsoft is moving GitHub Copilot to token-based billing on June 1, replacing its flat subscription rate — a shift that some developers say could multiply their monthly costs by 10 to 60 times.
Sara Montes de Oca · 59 DAYS AGO
San Francisco startup Foundation Future Industries has tested humanoid robots in Ukraine and secured $24 million in U.S. government contracts, with CEO Sankaet Pathak targeting frontline military deployment within 18 months.
Jay Goldberg · 59 DAYS AGO
Illinois lawmakers passed SB 315, the nation's strongest AI safety law, requiring frontier AI firms to undergo independent third-party safety testing — a development that comes days after the Trump administration scrapped its own federal AI vetting plan.
Sara Montes de Oca · 61 DAYS AGO
Israel-based Wix is cutting roughly 20% of its workforce — just over 1,000 employees — with CEO Avishai Abrahami citing AI's rapid evolution and pressure from the strengthening Israeli shekel as key factors behind the decision.
Jay Goldberg · 61 DAYS AGO
Meta confirmed it will test two paid subscription tiers for its Meta AI app — Meta One Plus at $7.99 a month and Meta One Premium at $19.99 a month — beginning next month in Singapore, Guatemala, and Bolivia.
Jay Goldberg · 62 DAYS AGO
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