Open-weight AI models from Chinese labs are proving to be a terrible business, unlike open-source software, according to financial disclosures and analyst reports. Zhipu, the lab behind GLM 5.2, lost …
Corner, a social-mapping startup targeting Gen Z users, has raised new funding to bring its total to $7.5 million, nearly doubling its previous $3.75 million raised in 2025. The New York-based company…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US government is investigating whether Chinese open-source AI models, such as Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, were built on intellectual property theft from US competi…
Google announced three new Gemini models on Tuesday, including 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, emphasizing speed and cost efficiency over raw power. The company said Gemini 3.5 Pro, or…
Computer science enrollment in US colleges declined for the first time in roughly two decades during the 2025-26 academic year, coinciding with the rise of ChatGPT, according to new research by Jacob …
Ukraine's secret uncrewed weapons revolution is outpacing global military innovation, with rare access revealing high-speed interceptors, semiautonomous naval drones, uncrewed ground robots, and AI-po…
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 model, launched Thursday, has sparked widespread discussion on China's Weibo platform about Chinese AI competitiveness, the compute demands of efficient models, and c…
Curative CEO Fred Turner said the health insurance company canceled its $600,000-a-year Salesforce contract after building a replacement CRM in two months using AI coding tools. Turner told the "20VC …
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue, but analysts at EMARKETER project the entire chatbot ads market will make less than $1 billion this year, casting dou…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowd-sourced registry at brockovichdatacenter.com on April 27, inviting Americans to report data center projects in their communities, and within 72 …
Economists Gerry Tsoukalas and Brett Falk of The Wharton School warn that AI could trigger a wave of layoffs that erodes consumer spending, creating a self-destructive trap for companies. In a researc…
Agility Robotics opened a 60,000-square-foot research and training facility in Fremont, California, where it plans to house nearly 200 employees and teach its Digit humanoid new skills. Cofounder and …
Netflix chief product and technology officer Elizabeth Stone said on Lenny's Podcast that the streaming giant expects all employees to develop an 'aspiration for AI fluency,' encouraging everyone from…
Chris Fall, director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), has left his post after just three months on the job, a Commerce Department spokesperson confirmed. Fall oversaw the federal…
Workers are entering a 'career protection era' where strong job performance and years of experience are no longer enough to build and sustain a career, according to interviews with multiple profession…
OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor predicted on CNBC that within a year, companies will stop worrying about AI tokens as the market matures and other firms bear the burden of managing them. Taylor said the w…
AI is spreading beyond the tech industry into non-tech roles across the broader economy, according to new data from Indeed. In the US, the number of AI-touched job titles has more than tripled since 2…
OpenAI has seen a resurgence of interest in secondary markets after releasing new models and its AI coding agent Codex, according to Dave McClure, founder and managing partner at Practical Venture Cap…
Legal startups raised $2.1 billion globally in the first half of 2025, per Crunchbase, as investors race to back AI-driven companies in a sector transformed by ChatGPT. Business Insider asked venture …
OpenAI head of strategy Dean Ball sparked a debate on X by suggesting the Trump administration could create regulatory risk around open-weight Chinese AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which recen…