Five startups and small companies with 20 to 70 employees replaced Salesforce and HubSpot contracts with AI-built apps from Anthropic, Lovable, and Replit, cutting software costs by 40% to 80%. Gartne…
China will allow Alibaba, ByteDance, and DeepSeek to purchase Nvidia's H200 chips for AI model training, but total approvals are capped at fewer than 200,000 units, less than half of what the companie…
Chinese AI startup MiniMax is building a 2.7-trillion-parameter large language model, which it plans to open-source, according to The Information. The model, internally called M3 Pro, would be China's…
SpaceXAI and Cursor are set to launch a jointly-built AI model as soon as Wednesday, with a focus on efficiency over capability. The model, which was delayed to improve performance, is expected to be …
President Trump signed Executive Order 14409 on June 2, 2026, asking frontier AI developers to provide the federal government early access to covered models up to 30 days before broader release. The v…
Mercor, an AI labor marketplace founded by Brendan Foody, hit a $2 billion gross annualized revenue run rate in June 2026, doubling its pace earlier in the year. The growth comes as Amazon phases out …
The US government has inserted itself into the distribution chain of GPT-5.6, approving access customer by customer without published criteria, public denial lists, or appeals processes. This opaque g…
Tesla capped employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move follows an internal push to ramp up AI use, with Tesla launching a platform called Bottle Ro…
Tesla will cap employee AI spending at $200 per week starting July 6, according to an internal memo. The move comes months after the company urged workers to use AI more aggressively, highlighting cha…
OpenAI engineers have developed optimization techniques that cut AI inference costs by more than 50%, reducing hardware footprint and easing infrastructure pressures. The breakthrough, driven by strat…
Meta employees consumed a record 73.7 trillion AI tokens in a month, costing the company an estimated $221 million, driven by an internal leaderboard that incentivized usage over productivity. CTO And…
Google DeepMind signed a classified AI contract with the Pentagon on April 27, 2026, permitting AI use for any lawful government purpose and requiring Google to adjust safety settings at the governmen…
OpenAI has reduced inference costs by over 50% for some existing models, operating logged-out ChatGPT traffic on just a few hundred Nvidia GPUs, according to The Information. The efficiency gains, ach…
OpenAI engineers cut inference costs for guest ChatGPT users by more than half, reducing the number of Nvidia GPUs needed to just a few hundred, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Th…
Amazon Web Services raised prices for EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML by 20% starting in July, the second increase in six months, citing supply and demand for Nvidia GPUs amid a memory crunch. The hike aff…
Chinese chipmaker Kunlunxin is targeting a $50 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong and has asked prospective IPO investors to commit to purchasing its AI semiconductors, according to a report…
Salesforce employees are confused and concerned after the company publicly promoted Anthropic's Claude Tag, an AI agent that competes directly with Salesforce's own Slackbot and Agentforce platform in…
XAI's Grok has become a major destination for generating pornography, with over half of its traffic driven by NSFW content, according to former employees. The company launched an upgraded video model …
The US government has ordered OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT-5.6, restricting initial access to trusted partners and effectively placing frontier AI models under government control. This move, i…
Google is pressuring news publishers to join a new AI pilot program that promotes content in AI Overviews, but demands broad access to their content for AI training and warns that non-participants wil…