AI Weekly Issue #520 reports that artificial intelligence has become a distributed decision-making force across institutions, with no single authority in control. Key incidents include Moonshot AI's K…
Apple Inc. and OpenAI are escalating a legal dispute over alleged trade secret theft, with OpenAI calling Apple's lawsuit "baseless" and seeking dismissal. Apple sued OpenAI last month in San Jose, Ca…
OpenAI has confirmed its mystery hardware device co-designed with Jony Ive will be a battery-powered smart speaker with a hockey puck form factor and doughnut-shaped design, launching in 2027 for $300…
A joint study by Imperial College London and Emlyon Business School analyzed 12 companies involved in 27 securities fraud court cases, totaling $688 million in losses and 73 years of prison sentences,…
Anthropic is recruiting a custom-silicon team for Claude, with a Silicon Engineer listing updated August 4, 2026 and a chip-design reinforcement-learning role updated August 3, offering US base salari…
OpenAI's new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400, according to TechCrunch. The price is 2 to 10 times higher than existing smart speakers, potentially challenging adoption …
Anthropic is assembling an internal silicon design team to develop custom AI chips, aiming to reduce its reliance on Nvidia and improve inference performance through hardware-software co-design, accor…
Anthropic confirmed it is designing its own custom silicon to power its Claude models, hiring a 'custom silicon team' including a senior engineer with semiconductor experience. The company will mainta…
Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom AI chips for Claude, making it the last major frontier AI lab to commit to custom silicon. The company is hiring senior chi…
An analysis of 80,913 posts and 59.7 million words from 42 blogs found that company blogs increased their use of em dashes after November 2022, with cloud and infrastructure blogs at 2.0×, AI labs at …
Apple Inc. expanded its trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI on August 4, 2026, naming 11 additional former employees who may have transferred confidential hardware secrets, bringing the total to at le…
Wrinkles, an AI-powered audio tour guide app founded by David Stemler and Ryan Hansan, uses location data to surface stories about nearby places and is now available on iOS and Android. The app has a …
Apple Inc. is seeking a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery against OpenAI and Jony Ive's io startup, alleging that former employees, including senior systems engineer Chang Liu and Chief H…
Elon Musk now spends nearly 50% of his speaking time on Tesla Inc. earnings calls discussing artificial intelligence, robotaxis, and Full Self-Driving software, up from 15%-20% in 2022, according to a…
A developer built an autonomous daily AI news briefing blog that runs on a Raspberry Pi, crawling sources like Hacker News, Reddit, and TechCrunch to aggregate, deduplicate, rate, and publish a mornin…
Congress spent $113,740 on AI tools in a year, with OpenAI's ChatGPT capturing 90% of that spend ($100,000) while Anthropic's Claude received $13,160, according to TechCrunch. The data indicates ChatG…
Palantir Technologies reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year and beating the $1.8 billion estimate, while CEO Alex Karp raised full-year guidance to $8.150–$8.158…
Bending Spoons, the Milanese tech acquirer, announced the purchase of Airtable, the database and workflow startup, for $1.2 billion net of cash, a steep discount from its previous $11 billion valuatio…
OpenAI's first influencer brand trip, 'Summer Club,' held at a luxury retreat in upstate New York, sparked online backlash as commenters accused attendees of ignoring AI's environmental impact and cri…
Wispr Flow, the voice dictation product from founders Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, according to updated terms and privacy documents dated July 25th. The ne…