Convey, a startup building AI teammates, raised $38 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Khosla Ventures and Pear VC participating. The company aims to automate repetitive task…
Paradromics, a competitor to Neuralink, implanted its Connexus brain-chip in a Michigan woman with motor neuron disease to restore speech. The FDA-approved procedure at University of Michigan Health m…
US officials restricted access to Anthropic's cybersecurity AI models Mythos 5 and Fable 5 after finding safeguards could be bypassed, blocking foreign nationals and prompting Anthropic to shut down a…
A new study from brand consultancy Lippincott reveals that 80% of CMOs say bureaucracy hinders decision-making, and 84% find it difficult to align stakeholders around a marketing vision, despite gaini…
Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming warns that outsourcing thinking to AI could weaken cognitive reserve, the brain's defense against dementia, especially in young people. She compares AI chatbots to GPS, ci…
Allbirds has completed its transformation into Smartbird, an AI infrastructure provider, after selling its footwear business and shedding most of its workforce. New CEO Nadia Carlsten, who has never w…
A Morning Consult survey found that US consumers increasingly distrust AI brands, with seven out of ten major AI companies seeing year-over-year declines in net trust scores. In contrast, nostalgic lo…
Rising AI token costs are forcing companies like Pylon to set usage caps, reversing the era of unlimited spending. Pylon CEO Marty Kausas faced a $1.4 million bill and now limits tokens for non-techni…
Crosby, a legal tech startup, released the Redline Bench on Wednesday, a benchmark to measure how well AI models perform contract review tasks. The tool aims to solve the legal industry's challenge of…
Sean McDonnell, founder of web design company Kaizen and SaaS site Consigns, lost access to Anthropic's Fable AI model mid-project after the US government ordered export restrictions. The disruption w…
Fashion retailer Rainbow warned its models last June that AI would reduce the need for human workers, then began using AI-generated doppelgängers of the models in marketing images. Models reported few…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told employees in an internal chat that morale is near an all-time low, citing recent mass layoffs and mandatory AI task force reassignments. The company is taking steps to im…
Microsoft walked away from a potential $3 billion deal to lease cloud capacity from Oracle due to security and compliance concerns, specifically Oracle's lack of FedRAMP certification for its public c…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, highlighting the booming vibe-coding market. Other startups like Lovable and Replit are raising billions as investors bet on AI-assisted codin…
Charlie Smith, chief brand officer of consumer-tech company Nothing, said his fear of AI has diminished as he uses more AI tools, including vibe-coding personal apps and using the company's Essential …
OpenAI's Codex AI coding tool experienced elevated errors on Tuesday morning, with users reporting 'model at capacity' issues. OpenAI acknowledged the problem and resolved it by 9:48 a.m. ET, restorin…
Tech workers at Amazon, Google, Snap, and Nike told Business Insider that networking helps land interviews but preparation and communication skills are what secure job offers in a selective hiring env…
A viral meme about a fictional AI model called 'Le Chaton Fat' from French startup Mistral has spread across tech circles, despite the model being fake. The joke emerged after Mistral rebranded its ch…
Beehiiv is rolling out a new feature that lets newsletter writers use AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to automate publishing tasks, such as adding meta descriptions and tagging posts. The move aim…
Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a wheeled robot with two arms and no legs, on Tuesday. The startup plans to produce dozens by year-end for manufacturers, logistics firms, and labs, aiming to become a dominan…