The Atlantic's Books Briefing reviews Sarah Bakewell's book 'Humanly Possible' amid concerns that AI advancements threaten independent thought, quoting Eric Schmidt on AI as a material improvement to …
General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab spun out of gaming-clip platform Medal, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. The company trains AI agents on Medal's data…
General Intuition, an AI lab that spun out of gaming clip platform Medal after rejecting a $500 million offer from OpenAI, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. Back…
General Intuition, a New York-based startup building a foundation model for AI agents, is in talks to raise $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, eight months after spinning out of Medal with a $134…
Rachel Dratch, as her 'SNL' character Debbie Downer, delivered a commencement speech at Dartmouth College on Sunday, humorously warning graduates about AI eliminating jobs and data centers causing wat…
College graduates across the U.S. are booing pro-AI commencement speakers, signaling widespread rejection of the technology among Gen Z. At multiple universities, students heckled executives like Eric…
The US Department of Commerce awarded a $500 million grant to SandboxAQ, an AI startup spun out of Alphabet, to discover new chipmaking materials under the CHIPS Act. The company will use AI to find a…
The US Department of Commerce awarded AI startup SandboxAQ $500 million under the CHIPS Act to develop new semiconductor materials, reducing reliance on Chinese supply chains. The government takes an …
Genesis AI, a French startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, unveiled Eno, a humanoid robot designed around human capability rather than human appearance. Eno may lack a head or legs, but fe…
AGI House, the Hillsborough, California community founded by Rocky Yu in 2023, is shifting its programming toward AI agents and automation with a series of build events in San Francisco, including a J…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled general-purpose robot with two arms and an adjustable body, on June 16, 2026. CEO Zhou Xian said the company plans to produce dozens of robots by year-end and begin …
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with two arms and no legs, on Tuesday. The startup plans to produce dozens by year-end for manufacturers, logistics firms, and labs, aiming to become a dominan…
Dozens of Stanford University graduates walked out of their commencement ceremony as Google CEO Sundar Pichai began his keynote address, protesting the company's work with the US government on AI. The…
Over 100 Stanford students walked out of Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech, chanting 'Free, free Palestine' and booing, to protest Google's cloud contract with the Israeli government unde…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered an optimistic commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, but scores of graduates walked out in protest over the company's $1.2 billion cloud-computing con…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoided discussing artificial intelligence during his commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, instead urging graduates to 'choose optimism' amid widespread stude…
University of Washington alumna and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Mary E. Brunkow will address graduates at UW's 151st Commencement on June 13, 2026, amid a wave of student protests against tech execu…
Microsoft President Brad Smith responded to growing student distrust of artificial intelligence, acknowledging concerns about job security while asserting that human creativity will remain valuable in…
Ukraine launched a "Logistics Lockdown" campaign using AI-guided Hornet kamikaze drones, developed by US company Swift Beat LLC with backing from former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to strike Russian fuel…
Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of millions of AI agents interacting online without human oversight, warning that the mass deployment of autonomous agents creates a new …