Amid controversy, the US government plans to use an AI language model to analyze federal workers' weekly emails detailing their accomplishments, potentially determining if their jobs are essential, sparking backlash from unions and employees but earning praise from President Trump.
Major UK newspapers united in a bold blue cover protest against government proposals that could allow AI companies to exploit copyrighted works without permission or fair compensation, threatening the $152 billion creative industry.
Perplexity AI, a pioneering AI venture firm, has unveiled an ambitious $50 million fund to catalyze the burgeoning AI startup ecosystem, poised to serve as an anchor investor for promising pre-seed and seed-stage AI companies across the United States, with seasoned investors Kelly Graziadei and Joanna Lee Shevelenko at the …
Anthropic unveils Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid AI model excelling in coding, front-end web development, and complex tasks, along with Claude Code, a command line tool enabling developers to delegate engineering tasks to Claude, achieving state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks.
While AI promises productivity gains, skepticism lingers as most American workers rarely use it on the job, and few believe it will enhance their long-term prospects, despite those who have used AI chatbots finding them helpful for expediting tasks.
In a stunning $93M hacking scheme, Russian tech exec Vladislav Klyushin was arrested, convicted, and later swapped in a prisoner exchange after hacking financial firms for insider trading.
Microsoft doubles down on its staggering $80 billion investment as the tech giant forges ahead with AI innovation, strategically allocating resources to meet soaring customer demand across all regions amidst the AI boom.
Evo 2, a groundbreaking AI tool, unlocks the secrets of nature's genetic code, enabling rapid protein discovery by virtually predicting the form and function of proteins encoded in the DNA of all living and extinct species, potentially revolutionizing biological research and accelerating scientific breakthroughs.
Ilya Sutskever's AI startup Safe Superintelligence nears $1B funding round led by Greenoaks Capital Partners at a staggering $30B valuation, bringing its total raised to $2B.
Humane, the startup behind the AI Pin device, is shutting down the product and selling its core technology, including CosmOS software and patents, to HP for $116 million, with HP forming a new AI division called HP IQ while offering limited refunds for recent AI Pin purchases.