US technology companies are cutting jobs at a time when headlines—and budgets—suggest the opposite should be happening. According to reporting referenced in today’s coverage, major US tech groups have reduced headcount by roughly 140,000 roles even as investment in artificial…
Midjourney has never been a company that stayed in one lane for long. It started as an image generator that made “AI art” feel immediate and playful—something you could try in minutes, share in group chats, and iterate on with…
Cognition’s acquisition of Poke is the kind of deal that looks, at first glance, like a straightforward talent-and-technology purchase. But the more interesting story is what Cognition is choosing to buy: not just an AI capability, but an interaction philosophy—an…
For years, the open web has operated on an unspoken bargain: Google crawls, indexes, and ranks pages—and in exchange, publishers get something close to guaranteed discovery. It’s easy to forget how much of the internet’s day-to-day circulation depends on that…
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, positioning it as a meaningful step forward in both raw capability and day-to-day usefulness—especially for developers who care about complex coding. In its announcement, the company says Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities…
Meta is trying to turn its AI chatbot from a “smart responder” into something closer to a working assistant—one that can fit into the rhythms of your day, pull context from tools you already use, and carry out longer research…
Anthropic’s latest model release, Opus 5, is arriving with a message that will resonate immediately with teams that have been trying to balance capability, cost, and policy constraints: it’s cheaper than Fable and less restrictive. In practical terms, that combination…
Washington’s latest AI policy debate is being framed as a choice between two competing instincts: tighten controls to reduce national-security risk, or preserve the “open” ecosystem that has helped drive rapid progress in machine learning. Nvidia and Palantir have now…
Washington’s debate over how to respond to China’s rapidly advancing AI capabilities is colliding with a familiar fault line in the U.S. tech policy world: how far should the government go in restricting access to powerful models—especially when those models…
Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie is getting a major upgrade, and the shift is subtle in wording but big in implication: it’s moving from being primarily an assistant inside a single social experience to becoming a more open social research tool…
Midjourney’s latest acquisition, the astrology app Co-Star, is a move that feels both obvious in hindsight and surprising in its timing. On paper, it’s another deal in the long-running story of AI companies expanding their reach beyond the lab. In…
The Trump administration’s “Genesis Mission” is being sold as a turning point for American science—an effort that, in the White House’s own framing, carries the urgency and ambition of the Manhattan Project. But the most revealing part of the announcement…