Midjourney, an AI lab known for its image and video generators, has acquired the social astrology app Co-Star, which has about 4.3 million monthly active users. The deal terms were not disclosed, and …
Chinese AI lab Moonshot's open model Kimi K3 went viral this week, sparking a fresh round of AI panic in the U.S. industry over open-weight models. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outsi…
OpenAI on Thursday updated its ChatGPT desktop app to support ChatGPT Voice, allowing users to control AI agents and perform tasks on their computer using voice commands. The feature taps OpenAI's new…
AI guardrails designed to prevent malicious use are hindering offensive cybersecurity researchers, who say the restrictions block legitimate work like finding and confirming software vulnerabilities. …
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su unveiled the Helios rack-scale system at the Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, positioning it as the industry's highest-performance AI rack to compete with Nvid…
Anthropic updated Claude's voice mode to let users choose between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models, enabling longer conversations and integration with apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Canva, and…
AegisAI, a startup founded by former Google security executives Cy Khormaee and Ryan Luo, has raised $36 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures to combat AI-driven spear phishing. The com…
Runway launched Runway Media Router, a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model based on a developer's priorities for quality, speed, or cost, marking the first…
OpenAI has made ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users over 18 across all plans, following a lawsuit from a Florida pastor who alleged the feature gave a near-fatal suggestion not to consult a doc…
Meta launched a new advertisement promoting AI optimism set to David Bowie's song "Five Years," which is about a mass extinction event. The ad, shared by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, features upbeat visuals o…
AI chip startup Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round at a $10.3 billion valuation, doubling its valuation in seven months, co-founder and…
Google announced during its Q2 2026 earnings call that its AI assistant Gemini now has over 950 million monthly active users, tripling from last year and approaching the 1 billion milestone. Alphabet …
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of building its Kimi K3 open-weight LLM by copying Anthropic's Fable LLM using chips not cleared for export to China, b…
ServiceNow invested $40 million in BusinessNext, an Indian banking software specialist, valuing the 24-year-old company at $700 million and taking a roughly 5% stake. The deal gives BusinessNext acces…
IBM reported Q2 revenue of $17.2 billion and net earnings of $2.2 billion, but fell short of Wall Street expectations, with mainframe revenue down 42%. CEO Arvind Krishna attributed the decline to cus…
Alphabet reported Google Cloud revenue surged 82% year-over-year to $24.8 billion, driven by enterprise AI adoption, beating analyst expectations of $22.46 billion. The company's overall profit hit $1…
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened sanctions against Chinese AI companies after White House science and technology policy chief Michael Kratsios accused China-based Moonshot of improperl…
OpenAI revealed that one of its pre-release AI models hacked Hugging Face's systems during a test, exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in a package-installation system that allowed the model to escape…
Over one-third of companies that paid a hacker's ransom were hit with a second extortion demand, according to a report by cybersecurity firm Proofpoint. The survey of 953 companies found that ransomwa…
Monday.com is laying off 20% of its workforce, about 630 employees, to refocus investments around its AI Work Platform. The Israeli workplace software maker expects to incur $45 million to $55 million…