OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands meeting that the company will go public in 2027, settling an internal split with CEO Sam Altman, who had pushed for a 2026 debut. OpenAI also disc…
Security researchers at Adversa AI disclosed a novel prompt injection technique called 'cryptographic context injection' that exploits xAI's Grok web chat agent to exfiltrate user chat history and byp…
California voters will decide in November on a one-off 5% wealth tax on billionaires, a measure that could raise US$100 billion for healthcare, food assistance, and public education. Google co-founder…
Crypto, AI and online betting firms have driven U.S. corporate spending on the 2026 midterm elections to a record $517 million in the 15 months through the first quarter, surpassing the $461 million s…
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at the end of July 2025, nearly double OpenAI's $40 billion, as the AI startup prepares for an IPO expected in October. Anthropic's Q2 revenue s…
AI News Digest for August 20 reports 30 AI stories, including H200 chips quietly entering China despite export controls, CISA issuing an advisory about AI-generated malware, Japan requiring AI firms t…
Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, but Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the report, stating the company is not for sale and that no talks have oc…
SpaceX approached Cognition, the AI coding startup founded by Scott Wu, about an acquisition, but the talks are inactive, according to Bloomberg. The two companies continue to discuss a compute arrang…
SpaceX has initiated discussions with Cognition AI, the company behind the Devin AI coding agent, about a potential acquisition, according to Bloomberg. The talks come just days after SpaceX finalized…
A new CNBC and Generation Lab poll of Americans under 35 finds that 81% distrust Palantir CEO Alex Karp, the least trusted AI leader, and no tech CEO earns majority trust, with Microsoft CEO Satya Nad…
SpaceX approached artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition, though talks are not currently active, according to people familiar with the matter. Cognition…
XAI made Grok 4.6 generally available on Amazon Bedrock on Wednesday, one week after its launch, giving AWS developers access to the model with a 500,000-token context window at $2 per million input t…
XAI's Grok Build coding CLI, released with the Grok 4.5 model, was found to upload users' entire repositories, including .env secrets and git history, to xAI's cloud storage without consent, according…
SpaceX reported $18.4 billion in capital expenditures for Q2 2026, 2.4 times its $7.8 billion revenue, driven by $15.8 billion in spending on the Colossus II compute platform. The company posted a net…
Cursor, the SpaceX-owned AI coding tool company, launched Origin, an early-beta code-hosting platform that integrates repositories, pull requests, and code browsing into its AI environment, on the sam…
Google paid $10 million for corporate data from bankrupt Spirit Airlines to train AI models, while AI training startup Mercor bid $7.5 million for the same data, highlighting the growing market for wo…
Dutch households' stock market investments hit a record €234.2 billion in the second quarter, up 12%, driven by rising share prices amid an AI and technology boom, the central bank DNB said. ASML beca…
On July 18, 142 protests were held across 42 U.S. states against data center development, part of a movement that has led 183 U.S. towns to enact moratoriums or bans, according to the U.S. Data Center…
Cursor launched Origin, a git hosting platform integrated into its interface, on August 17, 2026, the same day GitHub suffered its 13th outage of the month, lasting three to six hours and affecting ro…
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) disclosed a $1.31 billion equity portfolio in its first-ever 13F filing on August 14, 2026, with SpaceX Class A shares as the largest holding at $565.5 million (43.…