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Reid Hoffman informed Microsoft's board on Tuesday that he will not seek reelection and will leave at the company's annual meeting at the end of 2026, ending a decade-long tenure. Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn and joi…
Anthropic confidentially filed to go public, with co-founder Daniela Amodei stating the company split from OpenAI to prioritize ethics and compute discipline over financial metrics. The AI firm is valued at $965 billion,…
Apple Inc. executives have held early-stage internal discussions about potentially acquiring AI search startup Perplexity AI, with mergers-and-acquisitions chief Adrian Perica and services chief Eddy Cue among those invo…
A University of Cambridge team and spin-out DIOSynVax reported that a Phase 1 trial of an AI-designed "super-antigen" vaccine was safe and immunogenic in 39 healthy volunteers. The vaccine, whose active component was des…
Elon Musk is preparing to take SpaceX public, a move expected to pressure other artificial intelligence companies to pursue their own initial public offerings. The listing could reshape capital availability and increase …
Wealth management technology leaders at the BNY INSITE conference in Aurora, Colo., warned that some AI vendors are expanding beyond their core competencies, creating integration and data risks for wealth firms. Sanctuar…
Enterprises are increasingly adopting "model routing" to match tasks with the cheapest adequate AI model, a shift that threatens revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Glean CEO Arvind Jain estimates 95% of enterprise AI usag…
Sakana AI has formally established the Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab, a dedicated research group tasked with developing autonomous AI systems that can improve themselves through continuous, evolutionary optimizati…
Runcap, a new open-source developer tool, estimates the cost of coding agent runs before they begin and enforces a hard spending ceiling that physically stops the run when the limit is reached. The tool, which operates e…
A new diagnostic framework identifies five levels of real AI adoption, with most companies mistakenly believing they are further along than they actually are. The model reveals that the majority of organizations remain a…
Mirror founder Brynn Putnam raised $20 million for Board, a startup creating in-person games and social experiences, as a wave of founders build technology designed to reduce screen time. Cyberdeck creators are going vir…
SerionFlow, an AI-powered programmatic SEO platform for B2B SaaS teams, has launched with a review-first publishing model rather than automatic page generation. The platform's developer chose not to auto-publish content,…
Google's market capitalization has pulled ahead of Microsoft's three years after appearing hapless against ChatGPT, while the search giant's decision to issue equity to Berkshire Hathaway signals a future where capital i…
A Brooklyn homeowner listed his 4,470-square-foot Williamsburg townhouse at 3 Wythe Lane for $5.99 million, offering to accept cash, Bitcoin, or vested shares of AI company Anthropic as payment. The seller included the A…
A software seller argues that sales is not about selling but about being friendly, curious, and helpful, and that stress hinders sales. The author suggests sales teams work better than individuals because they create a f…
S&P Dow Jones Indices rejected a rule change that would have allowed newly public megacap companies like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic to enter the S&P 500 faster, keeping its 12-month seasoning requirement in place. The…
Elon Musk will address ASML employees in a virtual fireside chat next Thursday to pitch SpaceX's Terafab semiconductor concept, according to internal communications seen by Business Insider. The event, held at Europe's m…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is backing a new AI research lab focused on user interaction and design while remaining at the helm of Airbnb, putting him in direct competition with Sam Altman, whom he helped reinstate as OpenAI…
Software engineer Praveen Rajamani analyzed Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz's AI coding workflow and concluded that AI tools have eliminated the easy 80% of software engineering—boilerplate, CRUD, and standard tests—while ma…
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, publicly criticized Anthropic's AI services as "extremely expensive," stating that many users are seeking alternatives. The remarks come as Microsoft shifts GitHub Copilot to usage-…