Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting syste…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day saw investors gravitating toward startups that turn AI into durable control systems for defense, agent infrastructure, and healthcare, with some companies commandin…
The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ordered six major grid operators to prioritize data center connections without adding new power supply, highlighting that AI's real bottleneck is ele…
A developer created a 40-line offline pre-gate script that triages agent spans with deterministic rules, escalating only uncertain cases to an expensive LLM judge. On one trace, this reduced the judge…
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a jailbreak, but cybersecurity researchers and Anthropic ar…
The US government forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models over national security concerns after Amazon researchers found a way to bypass Fable 5's guardrails. Cybersecurity researc…
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…
Snap spun off its AI video team into a new company called Dotmo due to high costs, signaling that video generation remains the most expensive AI task. The move highlights the financial burden of AI vi…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured standout startups including 9 Mothers, an AI-powered counter-drone system valued at over $200 million, and other companies in defense tech, robotics, AI in…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license t…
Snap is spinning off its internal generative AI video team into a new company called Dotmo, citing high costs of internal development. Dotmo will focus on AI models for interactive gaming, with Snap r…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The compa…
Higgsfield, an AI video startup, reported an annual revenue run rate of $500 million as of June 2026, up from $50 million in September 2025, and is now cash-flow positive. The company works with 390 F…
Pixi launched a messaging app on the App Store that lets users send AI-powered AR characters through iMessage, which come to life via the recipient's iPhone camera and react to surroundings in real ti…
Social media platforms are introducing AI-powered tools that give users direct control over their content recommendations, allowing them to indicate preferences and filter feeds in real time. The shif…
Apple CEO Tim Cook told The Wall Street Journal that the company plans to raise prices on its products to offset soaring memory and storage chip costs, which have quadrupled over the past year due to …
A new Pew Research Center survey finds only 16% of Americans expect AI to have a positive societal impact over the next 20 years, while 40% expect negative effects. The survey also reports that 44% of…
NEA partner Tiffany Luck said enterprises are still struggling to measure return on investment from AI, as companies like Uber blew through annual AI budgets and others cut AI tool licenses. Luck disc…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlas…
A WordPress VIP survey found 60% of US consumers say brands using 'AI' in messaging is a turnoff, while enterprise teams spend 16.6 hours weekly chasing AI search visibility. Multiple studies show con…