China’s latest wave of frontier-style AI releases is starting to feel less like a regional story and more like a global pricing event—one that US providers may struggle to contain, even if they retain an edge in certain benchmarks. The…
Runway has been trying to move up the stack for a while. In the early days, the company’s pitch was straightforward: build generative video and creative tools that people could actually use, then expand into adjacent modalities like image and…
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the United States this Thursday, a move that expands the reach of a feature designed to make the chatbot more directly connected to a person’s real-world health information. For users, the…
OpenAI is widening access to ChatGPT Health, bringing the feature to all users in the United States and making it easier for people to bring their existing health and fitness context into everyday conversations. The move matters because it shifts…
Meta’s latest attempt to sell an optimistic vision of artificial intelligence has run headlong into a very different emotional reality—one that listeners may recognize instantly, even if they don’t know the story behind the ad. According to reporting from TechCrunch,…
Google’s AI spending is accelerating again, and the company is signaling that the next phase of its buildout will be bigger than many investors expected. In a fresh update, Google said it expects to commit up to $205 billion to…
Etched has been making a bet that many AI hardware skeptics have been reluctant to entertain: that the next big leap in AI performance won’t come from training faster or building ever-larger GPU clusters, but from rethinking how inference is…
Lawmakers are moving to create a federal “kill switch” for artificial intelligence—an idea that sounds like science fiction, but is being drafted as a practical policy tool. A new proposal, described as an “AI Kill Switch Act,” would give the…
Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI is being framed as a fight over confidential information, but the deeper story is about power: who gets to define what comes after the smartphone, and what it costs—financially, legally, and culturally—to try to…
STMicroelectronics has become the latest semiconductor bellwether to run into a familiar problem: investors are willing to believe in artificial intelligence, but they want proof that AI-related demand is converting into revenue quickly enough—and consistently enough—to justify the market’s expectations.…
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, the kind of weather that makes every errand feel longer than it should, a small group gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library. There were fewer than a dozen people—neighbors, retirees,…
Trade union leaders are increasingly treating artificial intelligence not as a distant technological trend, but as an immediate workplace issue—one that will determine who benefits from productivity gains and who absorbs the costs of change. Across sectors and countries, labour…