How to fill Congress’s AI knowledge gap
U.S. lawmakers are struggling to keep pace with rapid AI advancements, introducing over 1,300 state-level AI bills this year while lacking independent technical expertise. Programs like the Conservati…
OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
U.S. lawmakers are struggling to keep pace with rapid AI advancements, introducing over 1,300 state-level AI bills this year while lacking independent technical expertise. Programs like the Conservati…
Visa's collaboration with OpenAI signals that agentic commerce is moving from experimental to infrastructure-ready, but travel booking reveals a critical gap: most agent-commerce tooling assumes stabl…
Deutsche Bank's investment bank CIO Denis Roux said AI is slashing tech project timelines from two years to three to six months, and clearing backlogs in weeks instead of months. The bank has 9,000 te…
Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy including catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government…
Microsoft shareholders filed a securities class action lawsuit in Seattle federal court, alleging the company misled investors about its AI and cloud business performance. The suit claims Microsoft do…
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously cleared the No Fakes Act by voice vote on Thursday, creating a legal right for individuals to authorize use of their voice and likeness in AI-generated conte…
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…
Democratic operatives Shaunna Thomas and Leah Hunt-Hendrix launched the Guardrails Alliance, a super PAC backed by tech workers and labor unions, to support AI legislation with $5 million. The PAC aim…
Modelparams.dev launched an open, community-maintained catalog of LLM model parameters, offering a UI, API, and NPM package. The database currently covers 191 models from providers like OpenAI, detail…
Go's runtime is well-suited for production AI agents, which are long-running, concurrent, I/O-bound processes. The language's goroutines, channels, and single-binary deployment enable teams to build a…
Silicon Valley wealth advisers report a surge in activity from tech employees and early investors at SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic expecting major liquidity events. Advisers say clients are strategica…
Ironsmith, a free open-source macOS menu bar app, lets users generate native SwiftUI apps by describing what they want, using local or hosted AI models. It builds real Mac apps without Electron, suppo…
Microsoft is evaluating a range of open and open-weight models, beyond DeepSeek, for its Copilot Cowork agentic work app, aiming to enable flexible model swapping based on task type, cost, and latency…
OpenAI's website is using a proof-of-work system called Anubis to block AI scrapers, causing delays for legitimate users. The system, inspired by Hashcash, aims to make mass scraping more expensive wh…
A developer built a scanner that fires prompt-injection probes at a self-hosted AI agent and tested it across five model backends, finding leak rates ranging from 0% to 90% depending solely on the mod…
SpaceX acquired Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding platform Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal announced June 16, positioning the newly public aerospace giant as a direct competitor to Op…
Yann LeCun, the 'godfather of AI' and founder of AMI Labs, called Elon Musk's xAI a failure and warned of an AI bubble, citing high costs and talent issues. LeCun, who is selling an alternative AI app…
California anticipated a multibillion-dollar tax windfall from IPOs of SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but modern compensation structures like single-trigger RSUs, tender offers, and loans-against-shar…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over a cybersecurity jailbreak vulnerability, marking the first time Washington has targeted a comm…
OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively hired over 85 former Salesforce employees in 2026, primarily in sales and marketing roles, as the AI firms shift from research labs to enterprise revenue engines…