OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, starting with 10,000 users this summer under the ChatGPT for Academic Researchers program, which includes…
Lilian Weng, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, resigned Tuesday citing health issues from stress and workload, then rejoined OpenAI on Wednesday to work on recursive self-improvement, using AI to b…
Cambridge startup Qureight has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Molten Ventures to build a 'foundation model' for the chest that can speed drug trials by generating disease-specific AI imaging m…
OpenAI released the Codex Security CLI as open-source code this week, but the underlying vulnerability scanner remains a limited beta for approved customers. The tool, previously called 'Aardvark,' ha…
Google DeepMind has dismantled the team behind its Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold protein-folding AI, reassigning most original authors and losing nearly a quarter of them, including Nobel co-winner Jo…
As AI-generated internal messages increase, organizations are finding that employee recognition creates the trust and attention that automated communications lack, according to Scott Johnson, CEO of M…
Ramu Donikana, founder of Invent Artificial, argues that the 239% surge in AI-generated applications has made resumes untrustworthy and that the solution is verified skill profiles rather than better …
PwC's Middle East thought-leadership reports on AI and electric vehicles contained fake footnotes, misattributed claims, and made-up sources, with one footnote's web address carrying the tag "utm_sour…
ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users, seven months later than OpenAI's target of reaching that milestone by the end of 2025, according to figures OpenAI shared internally and reported…
Cyera, a data-security firm, has agreed to acquire Oasis Security for about $1bn in a cash-and-stock deal, roughly $700m of it in cash, to secure non-human identities used by AI agents. The deal, the …
XAI, Elon Musk's AI company now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota's attorney general on Monday to strike down the first U.S. law banning 'nudification' technology, arguing the First Amendment protects t…
BuzzFeed laid off about 180 employees, roughly a third of its remaining workforce, on Monday, hitting HuffPost, Tasty and its film and TV studio. The cuts are the first major move by new controlling o…
Runlayer, a New York AI-security startup backed by Khosla Ventures, sued Rippling on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, alleging trade-secret theft, unfair competition, and breach of contract after R…
The Trump administration exempted data-center power plants from the Clean Air Act's Acid Rain Program and proposed waiving environmental reviews for commercial rocket launches, citing national competi…
Apple became the second company in history to reach a $5tn market value on Tuesday, touching $5.04tn, by refusing to heavily invest in AI while rivals like Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft spend …
The AI coding market is shifting from model competition to the 'harness' layer, the software that routes coding tasks to models, as enterprises push back on price hikes from tools like Cursor. Cursor,…
Fish Audio, a Palo Alto voice-AI startup, has raised $52m in a seed round and reports $21m in annual recurring revenue from more than 8 million users. The company gives away its best models and charge…
The Linux Foundation's x402 initiative, backed by over 40 organizations including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, aims to create internet-native payment standards for software, enabling AI agents to mak…
Act Security emerged from stealth on Tuesday with $60 million in funding, arguing that AI has made traditional patching obsolete. The Israeli startup, founded by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty…
NextEra Energy and Brookfield plan to build a data-centre campus in Kentucky worth as much as $100 billion, Bloomberg reported, marking one of the largest single commitments in the U.S. build-out of c…