A Yann LeCun–Linked Startup Charts a New Path to AGI
If you ask Yann LeCun, Silicon Valley has a groupthink problem. Since leaving Meta in November, the researcher and AI luminary has taken aim at the orthodox view that large language models…
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How Claude Code Is Reshaping Software—and Anthropic
Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I…
Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite the episode. On Wednesday, OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, announced the…
OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
OpenAI has quietly reversed a major change to how hundreds of millions of people use ChatGPT. On a low-profile blog that tracks product changes, the company said that it rolled back…
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
OpenAI has allegedly become more guarded about publishing research that highlights the potentially negative impact that AI could have on the economy, four people familiar with the matter…
AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
You might think Amazon’s biggest swing in the AI race was its $8 billion investment in Anthropic. But AWS has also been building in-house foundation models, new chips, massive data…
The Biggest AI Companies Met to Find a Better Path for Chatbot Companions
At Stanford, dozens of attendees participated in lengthy chats about the risks, as well as the benefits, of bot companions. “At the end of the day we actually see a lot of agreement,” says…
The AI Boom Is Fueling a Need for Speed in Chip Networking
The new era of Silicon Valley runs on networking—and not the kind you find on LinkedIn. As the tech industry funnels billions into AI data centers, chip makers both big and small are…
The AI Data Center Boom Is Warping the US Economy
The amount of capital pouring into AI data center projects is staggering. Last week, Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon reported their 2025 capital expenditures would total roughly $370…
Forget SEO. Welcome to the World of Generative Engine Optimization
This holiday season, rather than searching on Google, more Americans will likely be turning to large language models to find gifts, deals, and sales. Retailers could see up to a 520…
‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which…
OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold
Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had created an internal tool called DocuGPT. He might have preferred that…
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OpenAI Is Preparing to Launch a Social App for AI-Generated Videos
OpenAI officially launched Sora in December of last year. Initially, people could only access it via a web page, but it was soon incorporated directly into the ChatGPT app. At the time,…
OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line
OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an…
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon
Then there’s Eric Chong, a 37-year-old who has a background in dentistry and previously cofounded a startup that simplifies medical billing for dentists. He was placed on the “machine”…
Should AI Get Legal Rights?
In one paper Eleos AI published, the nonprofit argues for evaluating AI consciousness using a “computational functionalism” approach. A similar idea was once championed by none other than…
OpenAI Is Poised to Become the Most Valuable Startup Ever. Should It Be?
OpenAI is reportedly on the verge of a roughly $500 billion valuation, a figure that would make it the most valuable private company in the world—bigger than SpaceX, TikTok’s parent…
Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories
“AI is expensive. Let's be honest about that,” Anand says. Growth vs. Safety In October 2024, the mother of a teen who died by suicide filed a wrongful death suit against Character…
Meta’s AI Recruiting Campaign Finds a New Target
Mark Zuckerberg is on a warpath to recruit top talent in the AI field for his newly formed Meta Superintelligence Labs. After trying to gut OpenAI (and successfully poaching several top…