Spotify is rolling out a new verification program designed to make it harder for bad actors to flood the platform with spam, impersonators, and AI-generated “artist” profiles that mimic real people. The change is visible immediately for some listeners: a…
Meta has quietly shifted the center of gravity for its generative AI push—from experimentation to operational scale. In a new update, the company says its business-focused AI tools are now facilitating 10 million conversations every week. At the same time,…
A new kind of legal activity is emerging at the same time as AI tools are becoming ordinary. It’s not just that more people are filing claims or that lawyers are using software to draft faster. Observers are pointing to…
Meta’s latest earnings update landed with a double message: the company is preparing to spend billions more on artificial intelligence, and at the same time it is acknowledging that its core social platforms collectively lost daily users over the most…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to roll out a new cybersecurity-focused model, GPT-5.5-Cyber, and the company’s first public framing of the effort is unusually specific about who will get access. According to CEO Sam Altman, the model will not be offered…
For nearly three years, large language model chatbots have been marketed as the next layer of everyday life—an assistant that can draft emails, summarize readings, generate ideas, and answer questions instantly. In Silicon Valley’s telling, adoption would be smooth and…
In classrooms across the country, writing has quietly changed shape. For decades, teachers have assigned essays and research papers with the expectation that students will draft at home, revise over days, and submit work that reflects their learning. But as…
Big Tech’s AI buildout is no longer a side project—it’s becoming the dominant driver of capital spending, and investors are starting to price the consequences in real time. Across the sector, planned spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure is now projected…
AI companies are often discussed as if they were a new species of business—part science project, part infrastructure provider, part cultural phenomenon. But when you strip away the hype cycles and the futuristic language, the underlying reality is less mysterious:…
Oxford philosopher Carissa Véliz has a way of making familiar technology feel newly strange. In her latest survey of forecasting, she argues that predictions—especially those produced by modern statistical and algorithmic systems—are rarely just attempts to describe the world as…
SoftBank’s latest bet sits at the intersection of two of the most expensive, least forgiving parts of the AI boom: compute and construction. According to reporting, the company is putting together a robotics-focused business whose job is not just to…
Big Tech’s AI arms race is no longer just about who has the best models. It’s increasingly about who can build the fastest pipeline from chips to data centers to paying customers—and how investors interpret the bill when that pipeline…