Standard Chartered is preparing to trim back-office roles as it accelerates the use of artificial intelligence across its operations, a move that underscores how quickly AI is shifting from experimentation to day-to-day execution in global banking. The decision, tied to…
A proposed $420 billion merger between NextEra and Dominion is beginning to take shape as one of the most consequential corporate moves in the US AI buildout—less because it promises immediate consumer-facing change, and more because it would concentrate control…
SandboxAQ is taking a different route into the crowded race to apply AI to drug discovery: instead of trying to outpace everyone on raw model capability, it’s betting that the real bottleneck is access. In a move aimed at lowering…
Anthropic’s latest acquisition is a reminder that the most consequential battles in AI aren’t only happening at the model layer. They’re also unfolding in the “plumbing” that helps teams build, test, deploy, and operate AI systems at scale. According to…
The courtroom drama of Musk v. Altman was, on paper, a narrow fight about legal claims and timing. In practice, it became something broader: a public stress test of how power in AI is supposed to be governed, who gets…
A U.S. jury’s decision came with unusual speed, and the implications are already rippling through the AI industry’s legal and corporate chessboard. After just two hours of deliberations, the jury dismissed Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI, handing Sam Altman and…
After nearly a month of testimony and courtroom argument, the jury in the high-profile dispute between Elon Musk and Sam Altman delivered a unanimous verdict that dismissed all charges. The reason was procedural rather than substantive: the jury found that…
After roughly two hours of deliberation, an advisory jury in Oakland returned a unanimous recommendation against Elon Musk in the long-running dispute commonly referred to as Musk v. Altman. The jury’s findings were procedural as much as they were substantive:…
Elon Musk’s long-running legal fight with Sam Altman and OpenAI has ended in a way that will feel, to many observers, both anticlimactic and revealing: the case didn’t fail because a jury decided Musk’s allegations were wrong on the merits.…
The courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has entered a phase that is easy to overlook if you’ve been following the trial mainly for the headline-grabbing testimony. But this is where the case can start to matter in…
Amazon is taking another step toward making voice assistants feel less like “responders” and more like creative media producers. In a new update, Alexa Plus—Amazon’s upgraded AI assistant—can now generate AI-created podcasts on “virtually any topic,” according to an announcement…
Amazon is quietly turning Alexa from a “find me something” assistant into a “make something for me” engine—and the latest move is aimed squarely at audio. With a new Alexa+ powered capability, Amazon can now generate custom AI podcast episodes…