ChatGPT’s momentum is still there, but the shape of that momentum is changing—and the change is showing up in a place that matters more than most people think: app retention. New figures from Sensor Tower, a mobile market intelligence firm,…
If you want a single, publicly traded company to watch for clues about whether the AI boom is cooling off or simply changing shape, Oracle is an unusually good candidate. Not because it’s building the next breakthrough model in the…
Firestorm Labs’ $82 million raise is being framed as a manufacturing story, but it’s really a logistics and time-to-output story—one that sits at the intersection of defense procurement, industrial automation, and the growing belief that the next competitive advantage won’t…
Scammers are increasingly turning to AI-generated celebrity deepfakes to make fraud feel familiar, personal, and urgent—an approach that’s now showing up in TikTok ads. According to authentication company Copyleaks, the latest wave of scams uses realistic videos featuring well-known public…
Meet Shapes is positioning itself as something more than a chatbot wrapper. Instead of treating AI as a separate tool you summon when you need an answer, the app brings AI characters into the same social space as other people—turning…
Artificial intelligence is often introduced to the public as a kind of magic—something that “understands,” “predicts,” or “creates” with little explanation of what happens between the input and the output. But in the real economy, AI rarely arrives as a…
China has reportedly hit the brakes on the next wave of robotaxi expansion. According to Bloomberg, regulators have suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles following a high-profile disruption involving Baidu’s driverless taxis in Wuhan last month. The decision, described by…
GitHub’s security team moved with unusual speed last month after researchers reported a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tied to the company’s internal git infrastructure. According to GitHub’s own account of the incident, the work—from initial validation to deployment—was…
Scout AI’s latest funding round—reported at $100 million—lands with a particular kind of momentum: not just more money for a model, but more runway for an entire approach to building AI systems that can operate in the messy, time-sensitive world…
General Motors is preparing a major AI upgrade for millions of drivers, and it’s doing it the way modern carmakers increasingly do everything: over the air. The company says it will bring Google’s Gemini AI assistant to roughly four million…
Robotaxis are no longer a novelty that lives only in carefully fenced test zones. Over the past few years, the industry has moved from “can it drive?” to “can it drive reliably, at scale, across many cities, in many weather…
Memory chipmakers are beginning to hear a new kind of request from their biggest customers—one that sounds less like a negotiation and more like a risk-management plan. According to recent comments from SK hynix and Samsung, buyers who once treated…