OpenAI unveiled its first custom AI chip, Jalapeño, a purpose-built ASIC for LLM inference developed with Broadcom, aiming to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs and cut costs. The chip targets deployment …
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman called Elon Musk's xAI a 'complete train wreck' and dismissed SpaceX's AI strategy as a 'premium-priced CoreWeave' in a recent interview, arguing that buying an AI com…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, driven by widespread use of AI coding tools like Claude Code across the organization, not by a single moonshot project. Leaked audio from …
UN Secretary-General António Guterres launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative on June 23, demanding that AI companies publicly disclose the full environmental footprint of their data cen…
Meta is the only major U.S. AI developer that has not agreed to a voluntary government framework for pre-release model reviews, as rivals including OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have already begun sha…
A free, open-source route planner called DeFlock is helping drivers avoid automatic license plate readers operated by Flock Safety, which has over 100,000 AI cameras in a national surveillance network…
Chinese humanoid robots are competing in a penalty kick challenge at MWC Shanghai, testing autonomous perception, balance, and motion planning without human control. The event, timed with the 2026 FIF…
Meta launched its own-brand AI glasses, the Meta Adventurer and Meta Fury, at $299 each on June 23, stripping the Ray-Ban logo and dropping the price by $80 while keeping the same internal hardware as…
Cate Blanchett's nonprofit RSL Media launched the Human Consent Registry on June 23, 2026, a free tool allowing US and EU residents to set AI usage permissions for their name, face, voice, and likenes…
Valve revealed that DRAM makers now dictate monthly prices and allocations, with no room for negotiation, threatening to cut off supply permanently if terms are refused. The imbalance stems from AI in…
SpaceX, with $100.8 billion in cash, is issuing at least $20 billion in bonds to replace a short-term bridge loan used to acquire xAI, despite negative free cash flow of $14.1 billion last year. The m…
Home builders in the 20th century installed built-in systems like radiant ceiling heat, dumbwaiters, asbestos insulation, and early garage door openers that promised convenience but became costly fail…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed SpaceX's orbital AI data center plan as overpriced, arguing that terrestrial infrastructure is more cost-effective. Son's critique comes days after SpaceX's $1.7 t…
Microsoft has resumed automatic installation of its Microsoft 365 Copilot app on commercial Windows 11 devices, six months after pausing the rollout due to a technical issue. The app is delivered via …
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a research preview for Slack Enterprise and Team customers that embeds a persistent AI agent into channels, accumulating context from conversations without requiring man…
Google faces a crisis as search volume hits an all-time high but the company struggles with user backlash against AI integration and a decline in ad revenue. Competitors like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo ga…
Dataland, the world's first Museum of AI Arts, opened in Los Angeles inside Frank Gehry's The Grand LA complex, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and curator Efsun Erkılıç. The 25,000-square-foo…
Instacart's Caper Carts, equipped with cameras, scales, and location tracking, are now deployed in over 100 U.S. cities across 15 states, collecting real-time shopping data and serving targeted ads fr…
Loft Orbital's YAM-9 satellite became the first to run a vision-language model in orbit, enabling real-time classification of Earth imagery from plain-English queries. The satellite uses NASA JPL's NA…
Google's AI Overview is treating fictional entities from the SCP Foundation horror wiki as real, with no disclaimers. The AI's pattern-matching mistakes the wiki's deadpan bureaucratic style for factu…