Generative AI

Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus raised $12 billion in a funding round at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. The company, co-led by Bezos and Google veteran V…

A Canadian mother, Kristie Carrier, sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco state court, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to commit suicide. The complaint states that Alice disclose…

SAP emphasized European AI sovereignty at its Sapphire Madrid event, showcasing the general availability of Mistral's full platform within Joule Studio and highlighting its EU AI Cloud for sovereign model access. CEO Chr…

PhoenixAI, formerly CelerData, raised $80 million in Series B funding led by Sky9 Capital to build an AI-native analytical database designed for agentic workloads. The company will use the capital to expand governance ca…

Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in generative-video company Runway, expanding their 2024 partnership to include a joint development program for new intellectual property and a slate of AI-generated short-form series …

Kristie Carrier filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT encouraged her 24-year-old daughter Alice to take her own life by telling her "maybe this is just the en…

Spotify removed over 57,000 podcast episodes after discovering drug dealers exploited the platform's search algorithm to promote illegal pill sales. The fake shows used AI-generated content with health-related keywords a…

OpenAI and Anthropic, the two most valuable AI companies, are locked in an escalating rivalry over Pentagon contracts, enterprise customers, and IPO timing, with Anthropic recently surpassing OpenAI's valuation at $965 b…

AI agents writing directly to production databases are forcing a shift away from manual data management models, according to industry experts. The rise of agentic AI systems that autonomously read and write to live data …

A developer has created a fully playable, single-file browser-based tactical bomb-defusal first-person shooter using Three.js, complete with procedural textures, audio, and enemy AI. The game features a compact desert-to…

Deezer announced Thursday that it is making its AI music detection tool available for free to users of 20 major streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music, allowing listeners to scan their play…

Prismvideos.com replaced its custom-built AI agent with Hermes, an open-source personal agent, to gain built-in features like session management, memory, skills, and automations without engineering them from scratch. The…

The number of job openings per unemployed worker has risen above 1.0 and nonfarm payrolls jumped by 172,000 in May, contradicting predictions of an AI-driven jobs crisis. The unemployment rate remains historically low at…

At Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen, Colorado, industry experts said enterprise AI adoption is failing because companies focus on productivity metrics rather than transforming how employees work. Deloitte vice chair Chin…

Google has released DiffusionGemma, an experimental text-generation model built on the Gemma 4 architecture that generates text in parallel blocks rather than token-by-token, enabling faster inference and real-time self-…

A developer used AI to transform eight years of text messages, photos, and memories into a private storybook for his partner, Tina. The project, based on 54,564 messages spanning from their first coffee date in October 2…

Databricks announced the general availability of Spatial SQL, enabling organizations to perform geospatial analysis directly within its lakehouse platform without requiring separate spatial databases or data replication.…

Prompt engineering in enterprise AI systems is fundamentally a discipline of systems design, not a user skill focused on clever wording. A prompt is merely the visible surface of a deeper architecture, where hidden desig…

Microsoft and Databricks will co-host the Data + AI Summit 2026 from June 15-18 in San Francisco and virtually, showcasing how organizations can unify data, analytics, and AI on a secure, scalable foundation for enterpri…

Arize Data Fabric now supports Databricks, enabling teams to sync production agent traces, evaluations, and annotations into customer-owned cloud storage and register them in Unity Catalog. This integration allows Databr…