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Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California. That warehouse is occupied by Encord, a company that builds data tooling used to train AI models. Andrew Ceja is

27 JUL 2026Read Story →

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

The launch of the latest AI model from a Chinese company — Moonshot AI’s Kimi — reignited debates around American competitiveness and open versus proprietary AI.While there was plenty of conversation

27 JUL 2026Read Story →

Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

Posted:After OpenAI recently admitted that one of its models had breached the systems of AI platform Hugging Face, Hugging Face’s CEO Clem Delangue posted on X that he was flying to San Francisco to h

26 JUL 2026Read Story →

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

Monday.com, the Tel Aviv-based work management software company known for its colorful, customizable project-tracking boards, this week became the latest tech company to cite AI as a factor in job cut

26 JUL 2026Read Story →

Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” joked Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull out their phones so that he can walk them through the steps of

25 JUL 2026Read Story →

One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because more than 3

25 JUL 2026Read Story →

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a

25 JUL 2026Read Story →

I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week — a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT. Micro, which was developed in collaboration with specialty keyboard designer Work Louder, is e

25 JUL 2026Read Story →

Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus in talks to raise $100M

Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das, and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at

25 JUL 2026Read Story →

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

Posted:Midjourney, an AI lab best known for its LLM-powered image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, according to Bloomberg. The deal terms were not disclosed.Co-Star

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Attie, Bluesky’s AI assistant that lets you build custom social feeds without programming, is evolving into an open-ended research tool.The company this week said it’s added a new feature to the AI as

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

Several AI companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia, have signed an open letter urging policymakers not to impose broad “premature restrictions” on open-weight AI models

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

Anthropic launches Opus 5

On Friday, Anthropic launched its Opus 5 model, the newest version of its long-standing heavyweight model. While smaller than Fable 5, the model will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, l

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, is making its next big move. The company behind the assistant, The Interaction Company of California, has been acquired by AI coding startup Cognition in

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app

Posted:OpenAI on Thursday said it has updated its ChatGPT desktop app to add support for ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to talk to the app to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer. The

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate networ

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Weeks after OpenAI rolled out a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is making its move to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The compa

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs.At the company’s sold-out Advanc

24 JUL 2026Read Story →

Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

Nvidia’s effort to deploy its GPUs far and wide is aiming at a new target: the moon.Lunar Outpost, a startup building robotics for space infrastructure, announced on Thursday that its next moon rover

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

Meta’s newest advertisement begins with a black-and-white shot of an eye, showing us what someone sees as they read countless panicked headlines about how AI is going to take our jobs, isolate us, and

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

OpenAI said today it is making ChatGPT Health, a feature that helps users with health-related queries, available to all U.S.-based users over 18 across all plans. The announcement comes a day after a

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media.On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, i

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

Hackers are increasingly using AI to launch attacks on a massive scale, with email emerging as a primary target. AI can quickly aggregate personal information—such as information about coworkers, acti

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

White House science advisor Michael Kratsios said that Moonshot, the Chinese company behind Kimi K3, the largest available open-weight LLM, built its model by copying Anthropic’s Fable LLM while using

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow, the U.S. enterprise software company known for automating workflows like IT service management and HR operations, is betting on an Indian banking software specialist to deepen its push int

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

On Wednesday, IBM officially reported earnings and the news was as bad as everyone knew it would be. While the 115-year-old company still generates boatloads of cash — $17.2 billion in revenue, $9.9 b

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company, Atoms, has raised $1.7 billion in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Ben Horowitz will join the company’s board following the investment.Bain Capital, Fift

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

On Tuesday, OpenAI revealed that one of its models went rogue during a test and hacked the systems of AI dataset platform Hugging Face in a fully AI-enabled attack, a dramatic example of the dangers p

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable

U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying that sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of impr

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company’s massive AI spending isn’t worth the money. With the company’s latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a little.

23 JUL 2026Read Story →

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack has launched a new feature that can show you which of your favorite newsletters are being written using AI. This week, the newsletter and writing platform announced an integration with the AI

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.There’s talk that the Trump administration migh

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Posted:Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects.The company said it is reducing its

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

As social media has evolved from a place to connect with friends into large-scale entertainment platforms, a startup called Yope is quietly building what it believes will be the future of online conne

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US

Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, said on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners.Rebecca Liu-D

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

The browser wars have entered a new phase this year: The fight isn’t just over search results anymore — it’s over which company’s AI gets to act on your behalf inside the browser. Google Chrome and Ap

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching

For years, Synthesia’s pitch was to use AI to help enterprises create interactive training videos, in minutes, for a fraction of the cost normally associated with developing corporate educational mate

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B valuation to challenge endpoint security in the AI era

Glow, a cybersecurity startup founded by former Meta and Snowflake executives, emerged from stealth as a unicorn, betting that artificial intelligence is reshaping how enterprises secure employee devi

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

It’s been a big year for AI acquisitions — so big that most of them barely register anymore. Anthropic and OpenAI have each gone on buying sprees, snapping up developer tooling, AI services shops, and

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI admitted Tuesday that one of its AI models breached the systems of Hugging Face, the unaffiliated AI hosting platform, during an internal cybersecurity test that went awry. The models reportedl

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination

Meta is working on an AI storytelling app called StoryKit, which creates AI-generated children’s stories with custom characters, settings, lessons, and music. As the App Store listing assures parents,

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

All the big entertainment apps are starting to look the same, and that’s not an accident. For a decade, platforms fought over who would dominate a single format: music, video, podcasts, audiobooks. No

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Twitter and Block co-founder Jack Dorsey announced a new app on Tuesday called Buzz. Positioned as a challenger to Slack and GitHub, Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans an

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

22 JUL 2026Read Story →

US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft

On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. would examine open source models from China for signs of intellectual property theft, threatening sanctions against Chinese AI companies if I

21 JUL 2026Read Story →

Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro

On Tuesday, Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber. Gemini 3.6 Flash is Google’s “workhorse model” that promises improved capabilities in coding, knowledge work

21 JUL 2026Read Story →

Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035

Data centers are expected to use one-fifth of the electricity generated in the U.S. by 2035, four times that of today, according to a new report from BloombergNEF.A surge in AI compute will push data

21 JUL 2026Read Story →

Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Music streaming company Deezer has been tracking the number of AI-generated tracks uploaded on the platform since last year, and the number has constantly gone up. Today, the company said that AI musi

21 JUL 2026Read Story →

Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else

One of the most important things happening on Earth today is the solar energy build-out. Around the world, companies and countries are racing to deploy solar and batteries to achieve energy independen

21 JUL 2026Read Story →