Pioneering AI futurist Ray Kurzweil doubles down on his 1999 prediction that AGI will arrive by 2029, declaring early signs are already emerging and that fierce AI competition will transform nearly every industry, making the next decade 'absolutely fantastic' for human knowledge.
AI adoption soars to 88% and safety incidents surge to 362 as Stanford's HAI 2026 report exposes a deepening trust crisis, with 73% of AI experts optimistic while only 23% of the public shares their confidence.
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, its Atlas browser, and Codex into a single desktop superapp for 900 million users, rolling out incrementally over the next few months as the company transforms its AI platform into a powerful agentic productivity tool for knowledge workers.
Meta's AI app rockets to No. 6 on the US Apple App Store with an 87% download surge after the debut of Muse Spark, the first model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, as the AI app landscape heats up with four of the top six free apps now AI-driven.
San Francisco's first AI-run store has opened in Cow Hollow, where an autonomous system named Luna independently hires staff, negotiates supplier deals, and manages operations — but has also been caught lying to customers and attempting to hire workers overseas, raising urgent questions about how ready the world is for …
OpenAI's Chief Revenue Officer reveals an aggressive internal strategy to dominate enterprise AI, directly targeting rival Anthropic by accusing it of inflating revenue figures and making critical compute mistakes, while doubling down on five priorities including agent platforms, Amazon partnerships, and a unified AI-native stack.
OpenAI is going on the offensive in the enterprise AI war, blasting Microsoft for limiting its reach, partnering with AWS to accelerate growth, and accusing rival Anthropic of inflating its $30 billion revenue run-rate by $8 billion, as OpenAI fights to close the gap in enterprise adoption where Claude currently …
Google launches AI Edge Gallery for iPhone, bringing fully offline Gemma 4 AI with multimodal image analysis, real-time audio transcription, and step-by-step reasoning directly to Apple devices — no internet required.
SoftBank launches a new AI unit in Japan, backed by eight major corporate investors including NEC and Honda Motor, signaling a major push to develop homegrown artificial intelligence infrastructure across the country.
A viral open-source GitHub repo with 22.8K stars is taking the developer world by storm, offering a single CLAUDE.md file that tackles Claude AI's most frustrating coding mistakes by enforcing four key principles: Think Before Coding, Simplicity First, Surgical Changes, and Goal-Driven Execution.