The US Justice Department is investigating venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz over allegations that its partners sit on the boards of competing data companies Databricks and Fivetran simultaneou…
OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT designed for users aged 13 to 17, with stricter safeguards around sensitive topics and a ban on pretending to have emotions. The company uses over 2,000 behavi…
Anthropic accounts for 65.1 percent of spending on Vercel's AI Gateway but only 30 percent of tokens, with its per-token cost running 4.4 times the average of every other provider. Token volume on Ver…
Anthropic has introduced a /design command for Claude Code that enables developers to generate UI mockups as artboards directly in the terminal, with the tool reading the existing codebase to match th…
Researchers at Penn State found that AI context compression, or 'compaction,' drops user-imposed session constraints, with only 17 percent surviving on average, and most compactor setups perform worse…
Anthropic has reached an annualized revenue rate above $65 billion as of the end of July 2026, a sevenfold increase from a year earlier, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke to Bloom…
An investigation by 404 Media, which placed an AirTag inside a shipment of rare books, found that Amazon buys printed books in bulk, scans them for AI training data, and destroys them at a Las Vegas w…
OpenAI has signed a 20-year lease for an 8-gigawatt data center in Ohio, with Nvidia guaranteeing up to $105 billion for the residual value of the facilities and becoming the exclusive chip supplier. …
AI video production has rebounded from the disappointment of OpenAI's Sora, with companies like Promise setting up near Hollywood studios and Netflix using AI in 300 of its 1,000 titles. Higgsfield, a…
Anthropic is embedding a statistical text watermark in its Claude AI model to comply with EU regulations, but critics including blogger John Gruber argue the method degrades text quality by selecting …
A Washington Post analysis of more than 1,200 campaign websites found that AI is mentioned in nearly 40 percent of all U.S. House, Senate, and governor races, making it a major campaign issue for the …
Stripe is acquiring AI startup OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg, a significant increase from OpenRouter's latest valuation of $1.3 billion. OpenRouter provides access to ove…
Mathematicians Timothy Gowers and Peter Sarnak say large language models (LLMs) are strong at calculation but lack the intuition for creative mathematical breakthroughs, according to separate essays p…
A study involving Google researchers found that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfaction. Unbraked models at…
OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team, which was responsible for evaluating catastrophic AI risks, and reassigned its work to existing groups, according to The Decoder. Several safety staffers have l…
Anthropic's internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year, during which time about 50,000 external feedback contractors ran approximately 133 milli…
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows, comparing models on quality, cost, and time per task. The tool address…
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do, and generally accept AI output with little to no editing.…
Nvidia cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned Ohio data center from $250 billion to under $120 billion after investor pushback on risk, while Anthropic's quarterly revenue jumped from $4.7 billion to …
AI-generated books now make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but generate only 12 percent of sales, according to a new study. The study also found that revenue per book for human-writt…