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Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a 'brazen campaign' of intellectual property theft
At TechBBQ, Europe's AI conversations kept coming back to: Who's actually in control?
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Chinese automakers are following Tesla's bet that robots are the next big profit machine
Buried in Meta's $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids' data
Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile departures continues
Situational Awareness, star AI hedge fund that nearly imploded, now being probed by the SEC
Who's behind the new 'stealth model' Ox Alpha?
Uber faces fine of nearly $1B over automated driver suspensions
Will the DOJ's investigation into a16z spook other VCs?
OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill
Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf
How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours
AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections
OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
Anthropic's annualized revenue surges to $65B
Why people aren’t buying Mark Zuckerberg’s AI future
Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+
Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’
SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition
Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M
Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work
Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
Anthropic is turning Claude Code's auto mode on by default
Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships
SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’
The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air
Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate
Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT
Judge denies xAI's request to block Minnesota ban on 'nudify' apps
OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok
Investors love AI, as long as you're a cloud host
AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI
Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI
Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack
Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others
One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.
Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech
Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
Dimension Capital's $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
Kimi: Threat or menace?
All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year
Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act
San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
Lovable reportedly in talks to double its valuation to $13.2B
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
US investors will soon get access to SK Hynix, another memory maker riding the AI boom
The ‘first’ AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human
Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Thiel Capital’s Jack Selby nabs stakes in hot startups like Etched through Arizona connections
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
The AI jobs debate just got messier
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Why Wall Street thinks US memory maker Micron is the next Nvidia
Ford rehires 'gray beard' engineers after AI falls short
SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies
OpenAI limits GPT-5.6 rollout after government request, says restrictions shouldn’t be the norm
Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic