AI's new North Star: Intelligence per dollar
The AI industry is shifting its focus from raw model intelligence to 'intelligence per dollar,' as many models become good enough for business tasks and buyers prioritize cost efficiency. Amazon's reb…
The AI industry is shifting its focus from raw model intelligence to 'intelligence per dollar,' as many models become good enough for business tasks and buyers prioritize cost efficiency. Amazon's reb…
Lily Vittayarukskul, 30, cofounder and CEO of Waterlily, has raised nearly $10 million for her AI startup after her aunt's cancer diagnosis inspired her to shift from aerospace engineering to building…
Innovation theorist John Nosta, founder of NostaLab, warns that AI represents a shift he calls 'The Great Inversion,' where technology no longer adapts to humans but instead changes how people think, …
Manoj Aggarwal, a lead software engineer at a large software company with 14 years of experience at Microsoft, Twitter, and Stripe, says AI tools could reduce the need for junior engineers but not for…
Meta released a saccharine AI advertisement featuring rainbows and butterflies, but the upbeat messaging clashes with public sentiment: 40% of Americans predict AI will have a negative impact on socie…
Innovation theorist John Nosta warns that AI could crowd out the rare, original thinking behind humanity's biggest breakthroughs by pushing unconventional ideas toward the middle of a bell curve, crea…
Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, and other tech giants signed an open letter urging US policymakers not to crack down on open-weight AI models, defending the technology as critical for innovation and…
Mark Cuban predicted in an X post on Thursday that the next great AI application will be a job simulator that trains workers using simulations, much like pilots and race car drivers, to prepare them f…
The Army's Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center is using AI-assisted analytics to optimize its nearly nine-month training course for special operations medics, analyzing student performanc…
Elon Musk told The Economist's editor in chief Zanny Minton Beddoes that AI will surpass the sum of human intelligence within roughly five years, leading to an 'age of amazing abundance.' Musk, who ru…
Andrej Karpathy, a leading AI researcher at Anthropic who coined the term "vibe-coding," advised AI users in a Tuesday post on X to stop crafting polished prompts and instead ramble at a large languag…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI leaders are scaring the American people with warnings about job losses and China's AI race, urging them to be more thoughtful and enthusiastic about the technology's be…
Fremont, California, is emerging as a robotics hub as Agility Robotics opens a 60,000-square-foot engineering center for its Digit bipedal robot, joining Tesla, Meta, Zoox, Pony.ai, and DoorDash in th…
Elon Musk said his effort to slow AI concentration by co-founding OpenAI backfired, accelerating AI development instead. Speaking to The Economist's editor in chief, the xAI founder said OpenAI and it…
OpenAI's new product Presence, which enables AI agents with guardrails and policies for enterprise use, sent software stocks tumbling on Wednesday and Thursday, with Workday (-9.9%), Atlassian (-11.8%…
Intel posted its strongest revenue growth in more than 15 years, with second-quarter revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% year over year, and adjusted earnings of $0.42 per share, nearly double Wall Stree…
Elon Musk thanked Samsung, TSMC, and Micron during Tesla's Q2 earnings call on Wednesday, highlighting the critical role of memory chips in the AI boom. The rapid construction of AI data centers has c…
Alphabet increased its head count by 11,830 employees to 198,933 between June 2025 and June 2026, even as the tech giant prioritizes long-term AI growth and raises its 2026 capital expenditure outlook…
Business Insider has identified 22 VC firms actively funding social media startups, with AI driving down development costs and enabling new consumer apps. PitchBook data shows social startup deals pea…
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced a partnership with chip startup Cerebras to pursue disaggregated inference, splitting AI workloads across different hardware types, as AMD claims its Helios server system del…