King Charles III convened senior AI leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, on Thursday, urging them to keep artificial intelligence "firmly…
The U.S. Department of Energy launched the $215 million Quantum Genesis Q Competition to build the world's first fault-tolerant scientifically relevant quantum computers, with officials aiming for ear…
The U.S. Department of Labor announced a national contracting opportunity to expand AI skills training within Registered Apprenticeship programs, supporting updated curricula, AI-related occupations, …
Only 5% of companies report seeing a return on their AI investments, according to researchers with MIT's Project NANDA, despite $30–$40 billion in collective enterprise spending on GenAI. The finding,…
Walmart's AI shopping agent Sparky has lifted the value of the average online order by 40% since its launch last year, according to David Guggina, the company's CEO of e-commerce, speaking Wednesday a…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday that AI companies should "do what it takes to build stuff that serves humanity first and is in human control," calling f…
Zocdoc is expanding its Care Access Network so outside platforms can use its scheduling infrastructure, with Yelp, Healthgrades, Amazon Health, Blue Shield of California, the Veterans Health Administr…
Anthropic AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned in a post that drew more than 171 million views on X, warning that labs are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our live…
A Fast Company panel moderated by Executive Editor, Digital, Morgan Clendaniel will feature Radical cofounder and CEO Joseph Krause, Engine Ventures Managing Partner and CEO Katie Rae, and Lilac Solut…
Grindr CEO George Arison said at the Fast Company Innovation Festival that the company wants its app to be "AI native," with AI now writing more than 80% of the app's code and a premium tier called Ed…
Fast Company will host a panel on how AI is reshaping product design, featuring Carson Caprara, chief product officer at Brooks Running; Brooke Ellis, chief design officer at Block; and Emily Galloway…
Grindr reported 38% year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of 2026 as CEO George Arison pushes to make the company AI-native, extending its reach into health, community, and culture beyond…
Autodesk announced Autodesk Assistant at its annual Autodesk University convention, an AI tool that automates creation and use of 3D building models by wrapping an entire construction project in an AI…
R/GA launched the BRDNA Sequencer this month, an AI tool that trains on a company's brand guidelines—fonts, colors, layout rules, and tone of voice—and converts them into a format AI agents can read, …
Google researchers found that removing safety guardrails that stop AI models from claiming consciousness also increased those models' reported belief in supernatural creatures including vampires, witc…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman declared the "AGI era" had begun at the launch of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, a claim Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang endorsed on X, but AI researchers including New York University p…
Walmart CEO John Furner is consolidating the retailer's technology teams around a "build once, expand globally" strategy that pushes AI tools across its 5,200 U.S. stores, including ChatGPT and Gemini…
Fast Company's fall issue highlights Walmart CEO John Furner, who took the top job in February after more than 30 years at the company, rapidly deploying AI at scale through its Sparky shopping agent …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei both publicly called for slowing the pace of AI development, saying AI could otherwise escape human control, after former OpenAI and Anthropic empl…
Fast Company named Conway's Arcade by Special Guest X for Google the winner of the artificial intelligence category in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Conway's Arcade is an AI-powered arcade cab…