China’s delivery boom has long been powered by people—riders on scooters, drivers in vans, and gig workers who absorb the daily churn of demand. But in a warning that lands like a marker on a timeline, the boss of JD.com…
Private equity has always had a particular kind of curiosity: not just “Is this company profitable?” but “What exactly makes it hard to copy?” In software, that question is notoriously difficult. A product can look simple on the surface—an interface,…
The Trump administration’s latest moves targeting Anthropic have triggered the kind of industry reaction that rarely follows a routine regulatory update. In Washington, enforcement actions are often framed as straightforward—compliance, safety, procurement rules, or licensing requirements. But in fast-moving AI…
At WWDC, Apple’s AI story understandably centered on Siri. The promise of a smarter, more capable assistant—one that can understand context, respond with greater fluency, and feel less like a command-line interface—was the kind of headline that travels fast. But…
Meredith Whittaker, a prominent voice in AI policy and safety, is urging the public to keep a clear mental model of what today’s chatbots actually are—and what they are not. In a message that has been widely repeated across tech…
In the Weights is launching with a deceptively simple promise: turn your AI “presence” into a single number. That might sound like the kind of vanity metric people roll their eyes at—until you realize how quickly “AI influence” has become…
In a move that reframes how the public can interrogate AI systems, The Atlantic has helped surface what is—until now—been largely hidden: the music collections used to train some of today’s most visible generative models. Reporter Alex Reisner uncovered four…
Google’s DeepMind is facing another high-profile leadership shakeup, and this one lands squarely in the center of the AI research talent pipeline. John Jumper—an internationally recognized figure in modern machine learning research and a Nobel laureate—has reportedly decided to leave…
Anthropic has long positioned itself as more than a model developer. In public, it has leaned heavily into the language of risk: not just how to build capable systems, but why society should treat frontier AI with caution, restraint, and…
A new conversation is taking shape around a question that sounds simple but keeps getting sharper the more people live with AI: what exactly are we replacing when we talk to machines? For years, chatbots have been sold as tools—faster…
Artificial intelligence is moving from the background of finance to the foreground of everyday decision-making. In recent months, chatbots and other AI tools have become a familiar interface for questions that used to require a call to a broker, a…
For the last 30 years, policymakers have repeatedly tried to slow the spread of cybersecurity capabilities by restricting who can buy them, where they can be shipped, and under what conditions they can be used. The logic is straightforward: if…