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OpenAI

Meta Plans 20% Layoffs as AI Infrastructure Costs Mount
AI

Meta Plans 20% Layoffs as AI Infrastructure Costs Mount

The Facebook parent is weighing cuts to offset spending on AI acquisitions and compute
5 min read a month ago
Microsoft Copilot Pits GPT Against Claude in New Researcher Upgrade
AI

Microsoft Copilot Pits GPT Against Claude in New Researcher Upgrade

New Critique feature uses GPT to draft responses and Claude to fact-check them, achieving a 57.4% score on deep research benchmarks
6 min read 2 months ago
SoftBank's $40 Billion Loan Signals OpenAI IPO Coming This Year
AI

SoftBank's $40 Billion Loan Signals OpenAI IPO Coming This Year

Wall Street giants JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs extend unsecured 12-month loan that bets on one of history's largest public listings
6 min read 2 months ago
Google Backs Anthropic's $5B Texas Data Center in AI Arms Race
AI

Google Backs Anthropic's $5B Texas Data Center in AI Arms Race

Tech giant offers construction financing for 500MW campus as Claude creator locks in compute capacity advantage over smaller rivals
8 min read 2 months ago
SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment
AI

SoftBank Secures $40 Billion Loan to Fund OpenAI Investment

The unsecured 12-month bridge loan signals lenders expect OpenAI's public listing to happen within the year, giving SoftBank liquidity to settle the debt.
7 min read 2 months ago
AI Policy in 2026: The Year States and Feds Go to War
AI

AI Policy in 2026: The Year States and Feds Go to War

Federal preemption, child safety lawsuits, and the end of voluntary governance are reshaping the regulatory landscape.
12 min read 2 months ago
Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't
AI

Every AI Is 'Too Dangerous to Release' Until It Isn't

From GPT-2 in 2019 to Mythos in 2026, AI labs keep warning us their models are too powerful for public release. Then they release them anyway. At some point you have to wonder if this is safety or marketing.
6 min read 2 months ago
Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026
AI

Apple to Unveil Siri as 'Systemwide AI Agent' at WWDC 2026

Rebuilt Siri gains deep app integration, conversational chat interface, and web-sourced summaries to compete with Perplexity and Google Gemini.
4 min read 2 months ago
Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October
AI

Anthropic Eyes $60B IPO in October

The Claude maker is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley. At $60 billion, it would dwarf OpenAI's expected offering later this year.
4 min read 2 months ago
Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27
AI

Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, Grok in iOS 27

OpenAI's exclusive partnership ends. Users will choose their preferred chatbot through new Extensions settings. Apple is also building its own chatbot Siri based on Gemini.
5 min read 2 months ago
Amazon Building Another AI Phone After Fire Phone Disaster
AI

Amazon Building Another AI Phone After Fire Phone Disaster

The Fire Phone lasted one year. Alexa devices lost $25 billion. Now Amazon's ZeroOne team thinks AI can change the math.
7 min read 2 months ago
Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence
Opinion

Rocky and Grace: What Project Hail Mary Gets Right About the Limits of Intelligence

Andy Weir's blockbuster rests on a quietly radical thesis: that all intelligent civilizations hit the same ceiling, discover the same technologies, and face the same existential threats. Two writers argue about what this means for AI.
12 min read 2 months ago