China Didn't Make People Hate Data Centers
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.
OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.
Learn how Google is fighting scammers on all fronts with industry-leading security, lawsuits and law enforcement and industry partners.
How olmo-eval differs from existing tools An integrated evaluation stack Reproducible evaluation made open 💻 Code: https://github.com/allenai/olmo-eval
Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €11.7 billion.
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX.
Anthropic Public Record is a national survey of attitudes and opinions towards AI.
We’re announcing a partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). TCS will provide Claude to 50,000 of its own employees across 56 countries; build Claude-powered products for clients in financial services, healthcare, the public sector, and other regulated industries; and join the Claude Partner Network.
Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."
The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a new acronym is taking over: MANGOS — Meta (or Microsoft, depending on who you ask), Anthropic, Nvidia, Google, OpenAI, and SpaceX.
Our early testing has already shown that Siri AI knows when to shut up, and that's very much by design. In an interview with Mostly Human, Craig Federighi said Apple's new Siri won't act all sycophantic like chatbots made by OpenAI, Google, and others. "As you may know, if you use many of the existing […]
AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI.
Equal AI said that its AI-powered call assistant now has over a million monthly active users.
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.
Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing businesses. Now he’s overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.
CIOs and CISOs have many strategic and operational fears when it comes to unleashing fully-autonomous agents on tasks and hoping that everything works out.
Anthropic surveyed nearly 52,000 Americans about their hopes and fears around AI.
Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks.
AI agents have fundamentally changed the complexity of inference workloads. Until now, the industry has struggled to define a standard for measuring how...
Anthropic is throttling its new Mythos model for certain tasks while building apps that directly compete with its largest customers. Customers, partners, and investors are pushing back. The article The AI industry's platform trap is starting to look a lot like Microsoft's appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for software development. The article OpenAI buys Ona to push Codex toward long-running, autonomous coding tasks appeared first on The Decoder.
Activists raised a 40-foot-tall inflatable Elon Musk in Manhattan to draw attention to the risk he allegedly poses to investors.
As enterprise AI adoption scales, developers are increasingly forced to stitch together fragmented pipelines—separate models for text, vision, and...
A WIRED investigation found dozens of “nudified” deepfake images and videos on Grok's website, including nonconsensual depictions of celebrities and at least one prominent US politician.
After seeing NVIDIA RTX Spark in action at Computex 2026, I'm convinced its AI-powered editing tools could save creators hours by eliminating video editing's most repetitive tasks.
NVIDIA's Blackwell Ultra NVL72 is reshaping agentic AI benchmarks, outperforming previous systems by 20x in agent efficiency per megawatt.
We look at Gemini-SQL2, the text-to-SQL capability Google Research announced on June 12, 2026.
Vercel's changelog says AI SDK 7 adds `HarnessAgent`, an experimental canary API for running Claude Code, Codex and Pi through sandboxed sessions and SDK-compatible streams.
The paper tested OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI against GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6 across three medical evaluations.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google filed a lawsuit against a suspected Chinese cybercrime operation, alleging that the group used artificial intelligence to...
A UK police officer faces investigation for allegedly using AI to fabricate evidence. This unprecedented case raises pressing questions about AI's role in law enforcement.
Welcome to episode 104 of Pixelated, a podcast by 9to5Google. This week, Abner, Damien, and Will hop over the walled garden to discuss Siri AI, changes to Liquid Glass and its ripple effects on Android, and plenty of other WWDC thoughts.
Copperlane raised $4.1M in seeding funding, led by TQ Ventures, to scale Penny, an AI loan officer that reviews borrower docs in minutes.
Google is rolling out the latest version of the Gemini app for macOS today with a handful of updates.
Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans.
Kevin O'Leary on AI, China, and why America needs more compute power.
Anthropic's survey reveals Americans are wary of AI taking jobs and stifling independent thought. Daily users, however, feel less threatened.
In the U.S., the largest financings went to enterprise software company NinjaOne and blockchain technology provider Digital Asset. The largest deals of the week, however, were for European companies.
16 stories for June 13: SpaceX SPCX closes up 25% on debut, Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in business adoption, EngineAI files for Hong Kong IPO, GPT-5.6 leak, and more
TL;DR: A one-time $60 payment gets you lifetime access to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and more ($540 MSRP, sale ends June 14).
Activists say the high-profile IPO shifts attention and responsibility away from sexualized images of children that Grok generated, which spread on social media.
OpenAI introduces manual rate-limit resets for Codex, letting users manage their usage more effectively. This move could reshape user expectations.
The anti-data center movement in the US is being linked to Chinese involvement by politicians and tech investors. But the truth is more nuanced.
A Chinese scam network used Google's Gemini AI to flood millions of phones with fake texts and build over 9,000 phishing websites, prompting a landmark Google lawsuit.
OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule.
Xiaomi has unveiled MiMo Code v0.1.0, an open-source terminal-native AI coding assistant for developers.
Anthropic's recent move to limit its AI models reveals a tightrope walk between maintaining competitive edge and ensuring safety. Yet, is this really about safety?
Claude Fable 5 sets new AI benchmark records but faces scrutiny over its high cost for minimal performance gains. Is it worth the investment?
OpenAI Academy rolls out three courses aimed at equipping individuals with actionable AI skills. Will it truly democratize AI for everyday tasks, or just add to the noise?
Apple's recent advancements in AI, particularly Siri, signal a shift in tech focus. Anthropic's Fable 5 further stirs the AI market, challenging norms.
OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Ona, the cloud sandbox platform formerly known as Gitpod, giving its Codex coding agent the persistent execution infrastructure it needs for long-running autonomous software tasks.
Figure Technology Solutions, a blockchain-native capital marketplace, has struck a definitive agreement to acquire Kiavi, an AI-driven lending platform serving residential real estate investors, in a deal totalling $717m.
Claude Fable 5 gave users access to Mythos-class power, but its hidden safeguards turned a safety feature into a trust problem for Anthropic.
Anthropic limits AI model use, citing safety concerns. But it's also trying to stop open-source models from competing.
I might actually start using Image Playground now.
Mastercard has launched Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), which a release says will “unlock super-fast, always-on payments” – a new class of payments for AI-enabled transactions.
KPMG's recent report on agentic AI has come under fire for allegedly fabricating citations. This incident raises questions about the reliability of AI-generated content.
As they face increasing backlash over their resource consumption, major data center operators are scrambling to prove they’re not a drain on the environment, or, at least, not as much of one as their competition.
Just after Seattle enacted a one-year data center moratorium that some of Amazon's own employees pushed for, Amazon shared how much water its data centers use, reportedly for the first time.
Prometheus, the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and former Verily co-founder Vik Bajaj, has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, bringing total funding to more than $18 billion since the company launched late last year.
ChatSee.AI Inc., a company that provides a failure intelligence layer for autonomous artificial intelligence systems, today announced it raised $6.5 million in seed funding.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — InfoHawk, the AI platform built to detect and neutralize deception at internet scale, has announced it has closed a $2.25 million pre-seed financing round, led by Moonshots Capital.
Google has released another set of benchmark results to determine the best AI models for Android coding, along with how much each model costs per token. Google’s Gemini 3.5 Flash is easily the most resource-intensive in Android development, and it doesn’t even make the top five.
Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei has revealed he manages just one direct report, his chief of staff, with the rest of the company’s executive team reporting to his sister and co-founder Daniela Amodei, who serves as president and oversees day-to-day operations.
One-fifth of firms aren’t even sure if they’ve been hacked through their AI tools, according to a new report.
Google has filed a lawsuit against a cybercrime organization that was using Gemini to power its financial scams, while Google is also pushing for stricter laws that are more relevant to an AI era.
Anthropic's powerful model raises difficult questions about how government and industry should work together to safeguard systems in the AI era.
Barcelona-based Opereit has closed a $2.5 million pre-seed round co-led by Seedcamp and Yellow, the investment vehicle founded by Glovo co-creators Oscar Pierre and Sacha Michaud, to scale an AI agent platform that automates carrier invoice reconciliation and claims recovery for logistics operators.
French AI startup Mistral AI aims for a hefty 3 billion euro funding round, valuing it at 20 billion euros. This signals Europe's ambition to compete in the global AI race.
Google and OpenAI have uncovered AI-driven operations from China aimed at targeting US infrastructure and political discourse, raising questions about the evolving role of AI in global influence campaigns.
Devin Kim, a former engineer at xAI, has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX in a California state court, alleging he was dismissed in retaliation for raising repeated concerns about safety failures in the development of Grok, xAI’s AI chatbot.
Google has filed a landmark lawsuit against a China-based cybercrime network called the “Outsider Enterprise,” marking the first time the tech giant has legally pursued threat actors for weaponizing its own Gemini AI platform to conduct large-scale phishing campaigns against U.S.
Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns.
grok-4.3 takes the head-to-head by a hair, but only because it was more disciplined on the tasks that punished sloppiness. gpt-5.4 won the hardest parsing task, yet it gave back too much on instruction-following and formatting.
Blastoff! Elon Musk’s SpaceX went public Thursday evening and raised a stunning $75 billion, easily an all-time record.
Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — Upriver, an AI-native data engineering platform, has announced it has raised $14 million in seed funding, led by Valley Capital Partners and Hetz Ventures.
French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros. The article Mistral AI seeks 3 billion euros to fund its European AI push appeared first on The Decoder.
A Security has emerged from stealth with $37 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Cyberstarts, with angel backing from Wiz chief executive Assaf Rapaport and Cyera chief executive Yotam Segev, to build an autonomous offensive security platform that identifies and remediates exploit paths before...