Companies cited artificial intelligence as the reason for 40% of 97,006 job cuts by US-based employers in May 2026, the highest monthly total since Challenger, Gray & Christmas began tracking AI-relat…
OpenAI aired a "Time to Fly" ad for its Codex AI coding tool during Game 1 of the Knicks vs Spurs NBA Finals, hiding a cosmic logic puzzle minigame that rewarded eagle-eyed viewers with free AI tokens…
The Jane Goodall Institute is using artificial intelligence to digitize over 500,000 pages of handwritten field notes documenting five generations of chimpanzees in East Africa. The AI tool, developed…
Indeed's new brand campaign "Jobs Need People" emphasizes the role of AI-powered matching tools in connecting employers and job seekers while maintaining a human-centered approach to hiring. Chief mar…
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the early-stage venture capital landscape, making it more difficult for young companies to secure funding as investors demand greater efficiency and scalability fr…
The AI industry's rapid expansion is hitting a physical bottleneck with copper wiring, as heat and signal degradation limit the performance of large-scale GPU clusters. Lightmatter, a startup backed b…
Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Anxious Generation," warned in a recent TED Talk that AI-powered toys and chatbots could harm children's emotional development by becoming attachment figures, potentiall…
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence capable of performing cognitive tasks at or beyond human levels is likely to arrive by 2030, ushering in a "new human era." Hass…
Alex Ruber, 29, and his cofounder Parth pivoted their startup five times in three months after their initial AI-powered shopping tool proved economically unviable. The San Francisco-based founders, ac…
A seller in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is offering their $5.99 million luxury home for sale with the option to pay using vested shares in Anthropic, the AI startup valued at over $1 trillion, or bitcoin.…
Hannah Lowery, a 19-year-old actor in Los Angeles, lost a role in a new ice-skating show after the production shifted entirely to AI, replacing all human actors. The $1.3 billion micro-drama industry …
Walmart has developed an internal AI coding assistant called Code Puppy to avoid vendor lock-in with dominant AI providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. Created by distinguished engineer Mike Pfaffenberg…
Shift Robotics, a startup offering free apartment cleaning in New York City, requires cleaners to wear head-mounted cameras that record their work to generate training data for AI and robotics compani…
Teradata CEO Steve McMillan told the company's 5,100 employees in January not to expect annual salary raises this year, reallocating that budget toward AI investments instead. The global cloud softwar…
Former Google distinguished engineer Kelsey Hightower said AI is not replacing software engineers, only those whose sole skill is coding. In a Wednesday podcast interview, Hightower argued that develo…
Walmart placed usage limits on its internal AI coding tool, Code Puppy, to reduce duplicative tasks and control rising costs, the company's global CTO said Wednesday. The retail giant's tech chief, Su…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered Y Combinator's current batch of startup founders $2 million in API tokens in exchange for equity, announcing the pilot program for the spring and summer 2026 batches. The…
Meta's metaverse division head Gabriel Aul quietly left the company four months ago after just a few months in the role, according to a memo obtained by Business Insider. Aul was replaced by former Ep…
Uber is laying off nearly a quarter of its People and Places staff, which includes human resources and recruitment teams, affecting less than 1% of its global workforce of 34,000 employees. The compan…
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar declined to confirm whether the AI hardware device developed with former Apple designer Jony Ive is an earpiece, joking that revealing the form factor would prompt Ive to kidnap…