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Multiple major tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are struggling with their AI strategies, wasting billions of dollars without clear vision or execution. Meta's AI research lab is described…
John Jumper, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and computer scientist known for leading Google DeepMind's AlphaFold team, announced Friday he is leaving the company to join AI startup Anthropic. Jumper's departure follows a …
Amazon MGM dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic 'Artificial' months after Amazon expanded its partnership with OpenAI, including a $50 billion investment. The film, starring Andrew Garfield as the…
Subquadratic, a Miami AI startup, claims to have broken through the transformer attention bottleneck that limits large language models, introducing Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) to enable efficient long-context pro…
Nobel Prize winner John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic after nearly nine years, following the departures of Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer to OpenAI and AlphaGo researcher David Silver to start his own comp…
Aether AI, a San Diego-based startup, raised $20mn in seed funding to develop causal world models that teach machines cause and effect, challenging the industry's focus on scaling larger models. The company targets robot…
HyperLight, a Harvard spinout developing thin-film lithium niobate optics for AI data centers, raised $80 million from chip designer MediaTek, contract manufacturers Foxconn and Jabil, and other hardware supply chain inv…
Anthropic launched Claude Corps, a $150 million fellowship placing 1,000 early-career workers at nonprofits for $85,000 a year to deploy its AI assistant Claude. The program, which echoes the Peace Corps, aims to address…
Amazon MGM Studios developed and nearly completed a biographical comedy-drama about OpenAI's 2023 leadership crisis, titled 'Artificial,' but then refused to release it. The film, directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring…
Major corporations including Uber, Amazon, and Walmart are rationing AI tool usage after inference costs consumed annual budgets months ahead of schedule. Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April, while Amazon, …
US Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to give the American public a 50% ownership stake in the largest AI companies, citing the need for public control over AI's benefits. The proposal comes as OpenAI and Anthr…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the influential 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-creator of transformer technology, has left Google to join OpenAI. The move, announced on X, comes as OpenAI prepares for its IPO and co…
X product executive Nikita Bier offered to match or exceed Meta's snack budget to recruit engineers, targeting 'neglected' Meta employees amid morale issues. The move comes as X's parent company xAI and SpaceX thrive, wi…
SpaceX completed a $2.5 trillion IPO and now plans to raise at least $20 billion in its first bond deal to fund AI data centers in space, with capital expenditure potentially exceeding $700 billion annually by 2031. Crit…
OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI adviser who helped write the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team called Strategic Futures, and also recruited Noam Shazeer, a co-inventor of th…
AI infrastructure startup Tensordyne has taped out its first commercial accelerator, Napier, on TSMC's 3nm process, claiming up to 17x more tokens per watt and 13x higher throughput than Nvidia's Blackwell systems. The c…
Miami startup Subquadratic claims to have solved a decade-old bottleneck in AI models by replacing dense attention with sparse attention, achieving 56x speed gains and dramatic cost reductions. Independent tests by Appen…
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani announced at Reliance Industries' annual shareholder meeting that the conglomerate is rolling out AI services for phone calls, mobile apps, and connected homes, including Jio Call Agent and an A…
Noam Shazeer, a star Google AI researcher, has left the company again to join OpenAI, just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back via a 'hackquisition' of Character.ai. The deal structure, which allow…
A developer published a practical 40-minute method for naming a SaaS startup in 2026, emphasizing speed and defensibility over finding a perfect single-word .com domain. The method includes a five-minute positioning exer…