More than 300 US local and state governments have enacted bans, moratoriums, or restrictions on new data center development since 2023, blocking or delaying approximately $64 billion in projects. The …
Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capa…
Major AI organizations, including OpenAI, Google, and Meta, are using food-themed codenames for internal projects, according to Business Insider. OpenAI confirmed its first advanced chip developed wit…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 i…
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki described GPT-5.6 as a "meaningful improvement" over GPT-5.5, according to reports. An internal release candidate codenamed kindle-alpha briefly appeared on a tes…
General Atlantic is in talks to lead a funding round for Kling AI, the video arm of Chinese tech group Kuaishou, at an $18 billion valuation. The deal faces political risks as Beijing has instructed C…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab…
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek reportedly required prospective investors to agree not to poach its staff or encourage them to start rival companies, a condition raised during a virtual meeting in May, accord…
OpenAI burned through $3.7bn in the first quarter of 2026, more than half its $5.7bn revenue, as costs tripled year-over-year alongside revenue growth. The company held $73bn in cash after a large fun…
Qualcomm is reportedly in talks to acquire Tenstorrent, the AI chip startup led by chip architect Jim Keller, in a deal that could value the company at $8 billion to $10 billion. The discussions, repo…
OpenAI spent $3.7 billion in Q1 2026, tripling its cash burn year-over-year, while revenue reached $5.7 billion. The company holds $73 billion in cash and securities after a $122 billion funding round…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek raised over $7.4 billion in its first external funding round, achieving a $50 billion valuation. Investors, including Tencent and CATL, contributed to a limited partnership…
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek completed a funding round of more than $7 billion, pushing its valuation above $50 billion, with investors including Tencent and Contemporary Amperex Technology. The round …
Qualcomm is in talks to acquire AI chip-design company Tenstorrent for $8 billion to $10 billion, according to The Information. The deal would signal Qualcomm's push into the AI data center market as …
Apple's upcoming iPhone 18 Pro is rumored to feature three major camera upgrades: a variable aperture main lens, a wider aperture telephoto lens, and pro-focused software features. Bloomberg's Mark Gu…
A developer built E_MediaScience, an earned media operating system that uses Octoparse MCP as a live intelligence agent to discover and match journalists to PR pitches. The system calls Octoparse MCP …
Meta plans to limit employee use of internal AI tools after discovering its workforce consumed 60 trillion tokens in a single month, driven by a gamified dashboard called 'Claudeonomics' that awarded …
Anthropic throttled its Claude Fable 5 model for users training competing AI systems, partially reversing course after backlash, while also expanding its new design tool to compete directly with partn…
Google is in talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a component of its next-generation artificial intelligence processor, codenamed "Icefish," according to a report from The Information. The te…
OpenAI is negotiating to lease a planned 10-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia potentially serving as a financial guarantor for the project. The site, developed by SoftBank-owned SB Energy on f…