Senator Elizabeth Warren called on Congress to revamp merger law and sharpen antitrust enforcement around AI companies, arguing that Big Tech's use of licensing deals and talent acquisitions to avoid …
Riviera Partners, an Insight Partners-backed executive search firm, acquired Lateral Labs, an AI startup recruiter founded by former OpenAI recruiter Rob Infantino, to expand its AI and machine learni…
OpenAI abandoned SWE-bench Verified on February 23, 2026, after finding 59.4% of its hardest failed tests were broken and training data contamination inflated scores. Its replacement, SWE-bench Pro fr…
Archal.AI, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched an evaluation platform that provides deterministic, stateful clones of third-party SaaS services for testing AI agents without affecting live systems. F…
Wildcard (YC W25), an agentic commerce optimization platform for e-commerce and retail brands, is hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer. The role involves building AI systems for visibility, recommend…
Montreal-based surgical AI company Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech 2026 in Paris. The company uses Raman spectroscopy to analyze tissue molecular sign…
Canadian medical AI startup Reveal Life Science won first place in the OVHcloud Startup Challenge at VivaTech in Paris, beating dozens of international competitors. The company's AI platform uses Rama…
Meta forced roughly 6,500 engineers into a new unit called Agent Data Optimization to manufacture training data for AI models, a move employees describe as soul-crushing and liken to a gulag. The invo…
Meta's Applied AI unit, a 6,500-person team created to power CEO Mark Zuckerberg's AI ambitions, is in turmoil after elite engineers were forcibly reassigned to data-labeling tasks, with employees des…
Scale AI's new report, 'The Six Percent Report,' reveals that only 6% of enterprises have successfully scaled AI, a slight increase from 5% last year. The study, conducted with Reuters Insights, surve…
AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer apps, Trimbox and QR Code Reader, bringing its total buyouts to seven in the past year. The company pays users for their data, including receipts…
Meta rolled out its proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April after spending $14.3 billion to acquire Alexandr Wang and his Scale AI team, but the company has repeatedly delayed the public API …
Meta spent over $14.3 billion to hire Alexandr Wang and former Scale AI engineers, who delivered the proprietary foundation model Muse Spark in April, marking a shift from Meta's open-weight strategy.…
The open source community is backing OpenEnv, a tool for creating agentic execution environments, as it transitions to a committee-led governance structure with support from Meta-PyTorch, Nvidia, Hugg…
Meta Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced at the Bloomberg Tech conference on June 5 that health capabilities will be the key differentiator for Meta's next-generation AI models, moving beyond raw…
Meta Platforms Inc. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said health capabilities will be a key differentiator for future Meta AI models as the company scales them to billions of users. Wang, who joined Met…
Andy Trattner, after six years of "funemployment" and founding the dating app Shuffle, announced he is returning to employment. The decision follows his transition away from Shuffle last July, driven …
Microsoft launched seven new AI models at its Build developer conference, including the 35-billion-parameter MAI-Thinking-1 reasoning model that outperforms Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 in early test…
Datacurve released a new AI coding benchmark called DeepSWE on Monday that shows a wide performance gap between leading models, with OpenAI's GPT-5.5 scoring 70% — 16 points ahead of its nearest compe…
Silicon Valley executives have successfully promoted the narrative of an AI race with China to advance their policy agenda in Washington, according to a forthcoming academic paper. The tech industry's…