Five Chinese AI labs—ByteDance, Tencent, MiniMax, Alibaba, and Xiaomi—cut token prices by 50% to 99% within the same competitive window, driven by narrowing capability differences between major AI mod…
A speculative analysis argues that within 100 years, wars will be fought entirely by artificial intelligences without human or national involvement, as companies accumulate sovereign powers and govern…
Four days after Washington cut foreign access to Anthropic's top models, Cohere reports a surge in government inquiries, DeepSeek closed a record $7.4 billion funding round, and Chinese AI labs slashe…
The US government issued an export-control order disabling Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after a jailbreak, while New York's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI over advertising and data prac…
Visa integrated its payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to make purchases at any Visa merchant without human authorization. The development capped a week of major AI advances including An…
SpaceX will go public Friday at a $1.75 trillion valuation in the largest IPO in history, but the company's core wager is not rockets — it is a money-losing AI business that lost $6.4 billion last yea…
AI and chip stocks lost approximately $1.3 trillion on Friday, marking the semiconductor sector's worst day since 2020, after a stronger-than-expected jobs report fueled interest-rate fears and Broadc…
Microsoft demonstrated its independence from OpenAI at its Build developer conference by launching a family of in-house AI models, including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, trained from scratch wi…
Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC for a proposed public offering, marking the first initial public offering from a frontier AI lab. NVIDIA opened its Cosmos 3 physical-AI model, …
Since May 28, ChatGPT has been prepending an undocumented "hidden user memory" check phrase to some responses without user or developer notice. OpenAI has issued no changelog or documentation for the …
Wikipedia editors are organizing a strike over Wikimedia layoffs, Amazon employees rendered its internal AI ranking system useless, Chinese courts began enforcing a framework barring AI-justified layo…
Anthropic released its Mythos AI model to the public, eliminating the distinction between classified military-grade and commercial frontier AI. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis advanced his AGI timeline to…
Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks killed a draft AI safety executive order from President Donald Trump in three phone calls over a Wednesday night and Thursday morning, preventing the order …
SpaceX filed an $80 billion IPO prospectus on Wednesday, the largest in market history, consolidating xAI's $6.4 billion operating loss and $3.2 billion in revenue under a single Nasdaq listing. OpenA…
Meta committed $145 billion to AI infrastructure the same week it began firing approximately 8,000 employees, framing the cuts as a recalibration to "AI reality." Standard Chartered separately announc…
Hyperscalers are projected to spend $725 billion on AI infrastructure this year, even as users increasingly reject AI-generated content. Gartner reports that 50% of US consumers prefer brands that avo…
A speculative scenario projects that by 2125, AI-generated disinformation will have eroded public trust in democratic processes to the point where voters voluntarily cede governance to algorithms. The…
In five days, Anthropic grew its Q1 revenue 80-fold to a reported $44 billion annual run rate, committed $200 billion to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and …
OpenAI finalized a $10 billion joint venture with a 19-firm Wall Street consortium led by Blackstone to embed its AI tools into the group's portfolio companies, while Anthropic is closing $1.5 billion…
OpenAI lost its legal leverage, revenue credibility, and cloud exclusivity in five days. Elon Musk testified in a trial that could redefine for-profit AI conversions, while the company missed revenue …