Meta is facing a fresh legal challenge that targets not just the decisions behind recent layoffs, but the machinery that may have helped shape them. According to a lawsuit filed by 26 former Meta employees, the company used internal AI…
In a world where AI is increasingly treated like an always-on utility, the question is no longer whether teams can use models—it’s how to keep the bill from quietly turning into a second payroll. Adam Mosseri, Instagram’s head and one…
Google is changing what you see the moment you land on Google Images—and the shift is more significant than it sounds. For years, the Google Images homepage has been a kind of waiting room: a mostly blank page with a…
Google Images is getting a noticeable shift in how it welcomes you. Instead of landing on a mostly blank, query-first experience, the service is moving toward a more Pinterest-like “discovery” model—one that tries to anticipate what you might want to…
Spotify has always been good at turning listening into a kind of discovery engine. Now it’s trying to turn it into a conversation. In a beta experiment rolling out to Premium subscribers, Spotify is adding an AI chatbot interface called…
New York has moved to slow the pace of a fast-growing, AI-fueled infrastructure buildout by temporarily halting approval of all new large data centers. The decision, announced by Gov. Kathy Hochul, is being framed as a pause for planning rather…
Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion agreement to access compute from Nebius, a move that signals how quickly the “AI infrastructure layer” is becoming a defining competitive advantage—even for newer companies trying to build in public and ship open…
Enterprises are increasingly treating “frontier” AI as a starting point rather than the destination. That shift is at the center of a growing debate sparked by Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue: if open models are powering more real-world deployments, what…
Spotify is taking its AI ambitions out of the background and putting them directly into the user’s hands—at least for Premium subscribers. The company is rolling out a new conversational experience that works like a ChatGPT-style assistant inside Spotify, letting…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in Northern California federal court, alleging that former Apple employees “stole” Apple’s trade secrets to help OpenAI. The complaint—spanning 41 pages—frames the dispute as more than ordinary employee mobility. Apple argues that it…
IBM is heading into a potentially rough stretch after its own chief executive, Arvind Krishna, pointed to a shift in how large enterprise customers are allocating budgets—one that could temporarily weigh on IBM’s deal momentum even as the broader market…
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of DeepMind and one of the most prominent voices in the global AI debate, has urged the creation of a US-led body tasked with testing “frontier” artificial intelligence models—systems that are not just capable, but…