Japan has become one of the world's most advanced climate-adaptation labs, with the government strengthening workplace heatstroke-prevention rules last year and companies like Obayashi Corp. shifting …
The U.S. State Department is preparing a letter telling the 35 signatories of its AI Opportunity Statement, including Japan, Australia, and South Korea, that they cannot join both Washington's Pax Sil…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
OpenAI has dissolved its Preparedness safety team, the third such unit shut down in two years, as the company prepares for an IPO that could value it above $850 billion. The team, built to assess cata…
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single Microsoft Copilot experience, with mobile and web rollout starting in August and Windows and Mac users expected to…
DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…
Andrew Ng, in his newsletter The Batch, identified four AI skills that determine which teams successfully ship products: LLM prompting, agentic frameworks, evals, and effective use of AI coding agents…
Nvidia has spent over $40 billion on equity stakes and supply-chain investments in companies that buy its chips, including $30 billion into OpenAI, $21 billion into SpaceX, and $30 billion into Intel,…
Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged that AI suffers from a 'crisis of trust,' saying ordinary people suspect companies and governments are 'cooking up some new way to screw them over…
SanDisk announced at its Investor Day on August 13 that eight customers have signed New Business Model agreements, locking in $16.5 billion in enforceable financial guarantees and a minimum of $93.9 b…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6, released August 12, 2026, scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and beating Grok 4.5 by five points, while costing $2 per million inp…
OpenAI on August 13 unveiled a limited preview of Ultrafast mode for its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model, running on Cerebras wafer-scale inference chips instead of Nvidia GPUs, delivering up to 750 output…
Geoffrey Hinton, the British computer scientist known as the 'Godfather of AI,' said in a November 2025 discussion with Sen. Bernie Sanders at Georgetown University that massive unemployment caused by…
AI agent approval fatigue is quietly undermining startup safety, as human reviewers rubber-stamp approval queues after approving dozens of benign requests, according to an analysis citing Replit's Jul…
ActivTrak's Productivity Lab tracked 120,620 employees across 1,009 organizations from Q4 2025 to Q2 2026 and found that healthy AI utilization peaks at 75% for employees at Stage 2 (Task Execution), …
A new CESifo experiment tracking 12,365 French adults over four weeks found that those who held personal conversations with AI chatbots rated the interactions as more enjoyable than a control group bu…
Candace Bushnell, author of 'Sex and the City', told Fortune Greece that she does not view herself as a brand and that writing is something only a human being can truly do, even in the age of AI. She …
Dhaval Joshi, former chief strategist for Counterpoint at BCA Research, argues that AI is not a single bubble but a 'rolling sequence of bubbles' across sectors, with software, silver, and semiconduct…
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, stated that while AI can generate answers, it still cannot earn trust, emphasizing the importance of transparency and verification in the digital age. He noted that …
Microsoft Vice President for Southern Europe Charles Calestroupat said skills, not technology, will determine which countries lead the region's AI future, citing Greece's potential as an innovation hu…