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Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become

Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. B…

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket

Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using…

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

Can Cursor Remain a Platform for OpenAI and Anthropic’s Models Inside SpaceX?

Cursor hopes to continue offering third-party AI models after it's acquired by SpaceX, testing the relationships between…

Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity…

OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, revivin…

Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC

FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.

Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

Teaching AI to run with the turbines

Artificial intelligence may have captured the public imagination through chatbots and image generators, but some of its…

Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now

Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using Open…

Google’s AI buildout drove 37% increase in electricity use in 2025

Google tries balancing AI data center emissions with clean energy efforts.

OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump admin…

Meta Is Charging a Subscription for Smart Glasses Features. Welcome to the New Era of Consumer Tech

You bought the hardware. Now you’ll need to subscribe for “expanded access” to the most advanced features.

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office

Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft…

Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting i…

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wan…

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund a…

The latest AI news we announced in June 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.

You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for…

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content

Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI tra…

After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.

Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number betwee…

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

Gemini Spark, Google’s agentic assistant, is now available on Mac

Google's 24/7 agentic assistant, Gemini Spark, comes to Mac alongside other improvements, like real-time tracking and su…

Google built a great smart speaker, but Gemini isn’t ready for it

The Google Home Speaker is Google’s first smart speaker in years. And it’s pretty! | Photo: Jennifer Patison Tuohy / The…

Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every f…

Anthropic’s long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5…

The Trump Administration Is Lifting Its Export Controls on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable AI Models

The White House is easing restrictions on Anthropic’s most advanced AI models weeks after ordering the company to suspen…

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Scie…

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

Google’s NotebookLM can sum up your research in a TikTok-style clip

Google's NotebookLM is adding a new way to catch up on your notes: TikTok-style AI videos. The new feature is rolling ou…

Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.

Netflix is using an AI-generated Gene Wilder voice in its Willy Wonka reality show

A new teaser trailer confirmed that Wonka's The Golden Ticket will premiere on Netflix on September 23rd, following its…

Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

Trump asked Musk for SpaceX stock to seed US kids’ savings accounts, report says

Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.

Libby will filter out AI content, kind of

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated…

Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?

Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for…

Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice

“After college, my plan was to come to New York and get a record deal.” | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Watchi…

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn’t

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investin…

Bernie Sanders Saw This Coming

For decades, the senator has argued that concentrated wealth threatened American democracy. Now he’s betting that frustr…

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capa…

Unlocking Britain’s next era of productivity: Building a nation of AI trailblazers

Google UK shares its latest Economic Impact Report and how to enable more people to unlock the benefits of AI-powered te…

Inside Genebench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using co…

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fa…

Meta Contractors Posed as Teens to Prompt Rival Chatbots About Suicide, Sex, and Drugs

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemin…

South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots

South Korea targets physical AI lead and commercial humanoid robots by 2028.

Tidal won’t pay royalties on AI-generated music, but isn’t banning it outright

Tidal shared its new policies regarding AI-generated music today and how the platform plans to "protect artists" and "in…

Inaugural Music Technology Research Showcase celebrates work of new graduate program’s initial students

Associate Professor Anna Huang delivers the keynote address, “In Search of Human-AI Resonance,” to a capacity crowd.

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to…

AI agents are not your “coworkers”

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir…

3 Questions: Beyond data-driven aesthetics

In a new Keller Gallery exhibition, Alexandros Haridis SM ’17, PhD ’22 traces centuries of ideas about aesthetic judgmen…

Lawmakers want to ban AI companies from selling your health data

A new proposal would ban the sale of Americans' health and location information to data brokers - including information…

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI wo…

Agent confidence on the technical frontier

Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI…

This Humanoid Robot Is a Terrifyingly Competent Office Intern

Flexion Robotics, a startup founded by ex-Nvidia engineers, has a clever way of training robots to do useful work.

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, gr…

HP Inc. launches Frontier strategic partnership with OpenAI

HP Inc. scales its OpenAI Frontier partnership to deploy AI across customer experiences, software development, and enter…

Trump Administration Allows Anthropic to Release Mythos to Select US Organizations

After weeks of negotiations, the White House permitted Anthropic to grant access to its most advanced AI model to a sele…

South Korea plans to train entire military as "drone warriors"

Half-million-strong military will train on drones as “universal combat tool.”

NYT slams Microsoft for building copyright-infringing supercomputer for OpenAI

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

LLMs help robots understand vague instructions and focus on key details

To help robots do chores in places like homes and factories, a new approach from MIT uses one language model to clarify…

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with stronger capabilities in coding, science, and cybersecurity, p…

Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

Notion is "going all in on using agents to run your inbox."

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

The new Google Finance is coming out of beta and launching a new Android app.

Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest…

Salesforce launches Help Agent to simplify AI customer service deployment

Salesforce Inc. is launching a new prepackaged artificial intelligence agent for customer service, enabling organization…

Warp lands $60M to automate payroll, compliance and HR with AI

Employee management startup Warp today said it has raised $60 million in new funding to expand a platform that uses arti…

Improving the speed and energy-efficiency of AI agents

A new system, known as Murakkab, optimizes the design and deployment of multistep workflows that power AI applications.

How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding…

Memory maker SK hynix files for $29B US IPO amid AI demand

SK hynix Inc., the world’s largest supplier of HBM memory, today filed to list its shares on the Nasdaq stock exchange.…

OpenAI, Broadcom debut custom Jalapeño chip for AI inference

OpenAI Group PBC today revealed a custom chip called Jalapeño that it will use to power its large language models. The p…

HelloTwin launches ‘Digital Authority’ to bring governed AI agents to the enterprise

HelloTwin.ai GmbH today announced what it calls an accountable artificial intelligence AI twin that holds business intel…

Commvault deepens Microsoft tie-up with native Azure resilience service

Data protection provider Commvault Systems Inc. today said it has signed a multiyear partnership with Microsoft Corp. th…

The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require dat…

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and…

Upbound open-sources Modelplane to optimize inference clusters

Upbound Inc. today released Modelplane, a new open-source tool for managing artificial intelligence inference clusters.…

Nvidia bets on agentic AI to turbocharge biotech discovery

Artificial intelligence played a prominent role at this week’s Bio International Convention in San Diego, the largest bi…

Orderful nabs $35M to streamline supply chain data management

Orderful Inc., a startup using artificial intelligence to make supply chains more efficient, today announced that it has…

How GPT-5 helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old mystery

GPT-5 Pro helped solve a 3-year-old immunology mystery, offering insights into T cell behavior. The breakthrough could s…

Meta ships first smart glasses powered by its Superintelligence Labs’ Muse Spark model

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced a partnership with EssilorLuxottica to launch a new lineup of artificial intelligenc…

ZenBusiness enhances its AI copilot for new business owners with step-by-step blueprints

ZenBusiness Inc., a company that offers an all-in-one-platform to help entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses, t…

Virtue AI pulls the rug out from under the feet of shadow AI agents

Artificial intelligence security startup Virtue AI Inc. is expanding its capabilities with the launch of Shadow AI, a ne…

Helping build shared standards for advanced AI

OpenAI helps build shared standards for advanced AI, supporting evaluation frameworks, safety practices, and global coop…

The $400 million machine powering the future of chipmaking

Jos Benschop is climbing a ladder to get to the top of his newest machine. It’s a bit of a schlep. The contraption is th…

New chip could help tiny robots traverse complex environments

Researchers combined an efficient algorithm with dedicated hardware to rapidly generate 3D maps for navigation using min…

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

Discover how Omio uses OpenAI to power conversational travel experiences, accelerate product development, and transform…

A better way to model the behavior of metal alloys

MIT researchers’ approach captures subtle atomic patterns, improving predictions of material properties.

In game theory, generalists sometimes win out over specialists

Researchers show that for certain kinds of games, an overlooked class of algorithms performs much better than expected.

New research shows how AMIE, our medical AI, could help manage health conditions.

Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.

Could AI tell you where you left your keys?

A new spatial memory system for robots efficiently captures details about the objects they see while exploring their env…

We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Ala…

Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.

We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in energy programs.

When it comes to predicting people’s preferences, it pays to consider “the power of three”

MIT researchers provide a major upgrade to the nearly century-old idea of random utility models.

The latest AI news we announced in May 2026

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from May 2026

Startup helps retailers track their products in real-time

Using technology invented at MIT, Cartesian’s system for locating objects could also find uses in manufacturing, logisti…

NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery

IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI a…

5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping

Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping.