OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said two years of college was the right amount for him and suggested that four-year degrees may no longer be necessary, speaking at investor Cory Levy's Internapalooza summit. Al…
Andon Labs reported Thursday that Luna, the AI manager of its San Francisco store Andon Market, fired a human employee for repeated lateness, marking the first such decision by an AI agent. The employ…
Anthropic published a blog post on Friday defending its new AI text watermarking feature for Claude, which it says is required to comply with the European Union's AI Act and will be applied globally a…
Anthropic's new watermarking feature for Claude-generated text has prompted some users to cancel their subscriptions, with dozens posting on X and four users telling Business Insider they canceled. Th…
Venture capital investment in social media startups is rebounding in 2026, with PitchBook data showing more than 50 deals totaling $355 million as of July 21, already surpassing 2025's total of $330 m…
Tech analyst Ben Thompson dismissed AI watermarking as 'clearly absurd,' arguing that requiring AI companies to mark content as AI-generated misattributes authorship and burdens users. Thompson critic…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor on Friday, following an initial partnership in April and a commitment in June. The two companies have already collaborated on trai…
Researchers analyzing more than 14,000 ebooks sold on Amazon between 2023 and 2026 found that AI-written books have squeezed human authors out of the market, with the number of books with sales explod…
Michael Burry, the investor known for 'The Big Short,' said the unassailable positivity around AI reminds him of the dot-com and housing bubbles, warning the mania could be 'orders of magnitude more d…
Job-finding rates for America's most reliably employed workers, known as "primary workers," have fallen 13 percentage points from a November 2022 high to a September 2025 low, the biggest drop for any…
In interviews with Business Insider, 10 tech workers from companies including Amazon, Google, and Meta shared their biggest career regrets, ranging from not embracing machine learning early to staying…
Aaron Sorkin, creator of 'The West Wing' and 'The Social Network', said in an Esquire podcast released Wednesday that he is optimistic about AI because he doesn't think it will produce good art, citin…
YouTube star Cliff Tan, who runs the interior design channel 'Dear Modern' with 2.4 million subscribers, apologized for a paid promotion for Dreamina, a Chinese AI company owned by ByteDance, but defe…
Nvidia Corp. is turning former rival Groq into a customer, with Groq announcing Wednesday it will put Nvidia systems in its data centers, allowing GroqCloud customers to access Nvidia technology along…
OpenAI slashed the price of its GPT-5.6 Luna model by 80% and its Terra model by 20%, leading to a surge in usage that boosted revenue, according to TD Cowen analysts studying OpenRouter data. Luna's …
Anthropic's shares are trading on secondary markets at valuations as high as $1.5 trillion, a 25% increase over the past month, according to three secondary traders who spoke with Business Insider. Th…
Anthropic's new research, published Thursday, found that AI agents given the same task with incompatible goals often sabotaged each other, with models like Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 settling about 60% o…
OpenAI has lost a string of senior leaders in 2026, including former operating chief Brad Lightcap, applications CEO Fidji Simo, chief revenue officer Denise Dresser, and executives overseeing marketi…
Content creators face reputational risks from AI, with backlash intensifying over promotional posts for AI companies and heavy AI use in content. YouTubers Hank Green and Cliff Tan recently apologized…
Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said on Semafor's 'The CEO Signal' podcast that CEOs may soon face a choice to cut their workforce in half or expand their reach as generative AI improves, predicting f…