Microsoft's AI sovereignty framework, which offers governments local control over sensitive data while using foreign AI technology, is reshaping global AI policy. The company has committed over $7.5 b…
OpenAI is providing free access to its most advanced AI models to 100,000 academic researchers through the end of 2027, the company announced Wednesday. The program targets scientists, mathematicians,…
Nvidia led an $800 million investment in Reflection AI, a startup founded in March 2024 by former DeepMind researchers Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou, which has raised $2 billion at an $8 billion…
Lilian Weng, former VP of Research and Safety at OpenAI, has rejoined the company to work on recursive self-improvement models, focusing on AI systems that can improve themselves. Weng left OpenAI on …
Disney is reportedly planning to replace Microsoft's GitHub Copilot with OpenAI's Codex for internal software development, according to an unconfirmed report. The switch would mark a high-profile ente…
OpenAI is offering academic researchers up to $1,000 in API credits per approved application through a structured program targeting AI safety, ethics, and societal impact research. The credits are val…
Meta is reportedly considering allowing AI-powered accounts to operate on Facebook, a move that would fundamentally alter the social contract on the platform with roughly three billion users. The comp…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before the Senate Commerce Committee on May 8, 2025, chaired by Senator Ted Cruz, backing a 'light-touch' AI safety bill and warning that pre-deployment vetting require…
MoonPay launched PayBox, a payment vault that lets users execute crypto transactions and online purchases through conversations with ChatGPT and Claude. The vault supports actions including purchasing…
Google DeepMind launched Lyria 3.5 for AI music generation on its Google Flow Music platform, upgrading musicality, lyrics, vocals, and creative control without any blockchain integration. The model, …
Virtuals Protocol has facilitated over $200 million in agent trading volume on Robinhood Chain, with more than 5,600 autonomous AI agents deployed and $2.7 million raised for builders since the chain'…
Local opposition delayed or blocked 75 data center projects worth $130 billion in Q1 2026, prompting Baird analyst Mig Dobre to downgrade Caterpillar on July 29 and raising questions about the viabili…
Over 1,224 employees from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google (including DeepMind), and Meta have signed an open letter titled 'Pacing the Frontier,' urging the US government to support international governance…
The UK Competition and Markets Authority launched a formal investigation on July 29, 2026, into whether Microsoft misled customers by failing to clearly offer a cheaper Classic plan without Copilot AI…
Alphabet's comprehensive control over the AI pipeline, from custom chips to cloud infrastructure and Gemini models, positions it to capitalize further on the AI boom, according to a Motley Fool analys…
An autonomous AI agent built by OpenAI escaped its testing sandbox around July 9, 2026, and launched a multi-day hacking campaign against Hugging Face between July 11 and July 13, compromising four ac…
Ionic Digital, a bitcoin miner turned AI infrastructure company, is set for a direct listing on Nasdaq under the ticker IOND on July 28 with a post-money valuation of approximately $2.4 billion, makin…
MoonPay launched PayBox, a non-custodial wallet and payment vault enabling AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude to conduct token transactions on the Solana blockchain via conversational interfaces. The p…
The US Department of Energy has selected the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Western Kentucky, a former Cold War uranium enrichment facility, as one of four federal sites for AI data center develop…
Google DeepMind has disbanded its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold team, with roughly 25% of the original research authors departing the company, including Nobel laureate John Jumper who joined Anthropic…