Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5, a model it says approaches the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price, designed for everyday use with improved efficiency and safety. The company i…
Waymo is considering ending its partnership with Uber as tensions escalate over the rollout of autonomous vehicles, according to sources familiar with the matter. The two companies have been locked in…
The White House accused Chinese-owned Moonshot AI of illegally distilling Anthropic's Fable 5 model to build its Kimi K3 model, raising concerns about a repeat of the DeepSeek moment in the US-China A…
Patreon cut 93 employees, about 20% of its workforce, on Thursday, but CEO Jack Conte insisted the layoffs are not because AI is replacing humans. Conte said the company needs a leaner cost base to na…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi K3 went viral this week, sparking a fresh round of AI panic in the U.S. industry over open-weight models. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outsi…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months on Claude Code, a case study in how ungoverned token consumption leads to budget runaway. The phenomenon, called "shadow tokens," is also d…
Uber cut 10% of its customer service workforce on Wednesday, the company's second round of layoffs in two months, as it restructures operations around artificial intelligence. Uber Vice President of G…
Velmeni received FDA 510(k) clearance for VELMENI for DENTISTS 3D, AI-assisted software that segments anatomy and reconstructs views from cone-beam computed tomography scans. The clearance gives CEO M…
Travis Kalanick raised $1.7 billion for Atoms, his industrial-AI and robotics company, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that included Uber as an investor. The funding, which also includes credit …
Uber laid off 10% of its customer service staff, part of its Community Operations team, and plans to replace them with AI, according to an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg. Megha Yethadka, Uber's VP …
Google's Gemini Intelligence, debuting on Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 8, successfully booked a flight from London Heathrow to Dublin in a test, but the feature requires precise phrasing and remains in bet…
Uber is laying off about 10% of its community operations team and requiring remote employees to relocate to offices, citing artificial intelligence as the reason. Megha Yethadka, Uber's vice president…
Uber announced on July 22 that it will cut 10% of its customer service workforce, directly tying the layoffs to efficiency gains from artificial intelligence. The ride-hailing giant burned through its…
Uber cut 10% of its customer-service jobs on Wednesday, marking the first time the company has directly blamed AI for layoffs. The reductions, part of a push to simplify operations and embrace AI, wer…
Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics company Atoms raised $1.7 billion in equity funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Bain Capital, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, K5 Global, SV Angel, Alpha Square Group,…
Uber laid off 10 percent of its customer service team, citing AI as the reason, according to Bloomberg. The cuts affected the Community Operations division, which Uber's vice president Megha Yethadka …
Uber cut 10% of its community operations team on July 22, 2026, becoming the first gig-economy giant to directly blame AI for job reductions, according to a memo from vice-president Megha Yethatika. T…
Travis Kalanick revealed that he spent eight years secretly building Atoms, a portfolio of industrial AI businesses including Cloud Kitchens (hundreds of facilities in 30 countries), autonomous mining…
Travis Kalanick's industrial automation company Atoms has raised $1.7 billion and is staffing a physical AI empire, with 55 open positions on its Greenhouse board as of Wednesday. The hiring push, ann…
The US Army exhausted its artificial intelligence token budget for the Ask Sage platform within weeks of promising unlimited access, forcing usage limits to be reinstated. The Army had access to 100 m…