Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin at a 47% loss to fund a $65 million stake in an AI data center project in the Midwest, pivoting from its Bitcoin treasury strategy amid shareholder pressure and debt …
Jennifer Kerns, a 60-year-old former GitHub program manager, retired early in March partly because she did not want to adapt to AI-focused changes at her company. A growing number of tech workers are …
Venture capitalists are growing skeptical of AI wrapper startups—companies that build products on top of foundation models like OpenAI's GPT without proprietary data or workflow lock-in. The skepticis…
Bloomberg found that Phia, the AI shopping app founded by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, was hijacking other retailers' affiliate commissions through a practice called cookie stuffing. The browser ex…
The UN's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva showcased robots and AI applications while diplomats in an adjacent room debated rules for lethal autonomous weapons. UN Secretary-General António Guterres…
Researchers from multiple institutions hacked a quantum neural network running on real trapped-ion hardware, collapsing its accuracy from 92.4% to 1.07% using a four-stage attack chain involving side-…
Sam Altman called Elon Musk 'homeboy' in a public exchange on X, criticizing Musk's proposal for orbital AI data centers as speculative compared to OpenAI's terrestrial Stargate infrastructure project…
Inflationary pressures persist from multiple sources including a 'Godzilla' El Niño disrupting agricultural commodities, the AI boom driving up chip demand and prices, Trump tariffs still being passed…
Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, alleging that former iPhone engineer Chang Liu exploited a software bug to access Apple's internal file servers and shared confidential information with OpenA…
Vibe coding, a term coined by former Tesla AI director Andrej Karpathy, allows non-programmers to build software by describing their intent in plain English to an AI model that writes and deploys the …
South Korea's FuriosaAI has deployed its Renegade inference chips at Equinix's LS2 data center in Lisbon, marking the company's first commercial rollout in Europe. The chip, built on a 5-nanometer Ten…
Phoebe Gates, the 23-year-old daughter of Bill Gates, is building AI shopping startup Phia, valued at $185 million, and insists her privilege and last name have no role in its success. The company, wh…
For 250 years, work has defined American identity, but the rise of AI is ending that era. The biggest question is not just job displacement but what happens to a society built around work when it is n…
Meta is updating its Ray-Ban AI glasses to disable the camera if the recording LED is tampered with, while reportedly testing a 'super-sensing' prototype that collects continuous audio and periodic ph…
SK Hynix debuted on the Nasdaq with a $26.5 billion share sale, the second-largest in U.S. history, as shares rose 12.8% on the first day. The listing gives U.S. investors direct access to the leading…
The 2026 IPO market is broadening beyond AI mega-deals, with mid-cap and overlooked sectors preparing to test investor appetite in the second half of the year. SpaceX's record-breaking $86 billion IPO…
Elon Musk ordered Tesla employees to switch from Anthropic's Claude to his own company's Grok 4.5, admitting in a memo that Grok is inferior but arguing the cost savings justify the change. Tesla also…
Meta pulled its Muse Image AI tool from Instagram after three days of backlash over consent, as the feature allowed users to generate images referencing public accounts without opt-in consent. Critics…
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company as it reorganizes safety work into a single research unit led by Mia Glaese, folding oversight into research. The departures …
Meta launched Muse Image on July 7, 2026, allowing users to generate AI images of public Instagram accounts by tagging them, with opt-out consent and no notification. After backlash from CAA and SAG-A…