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OpenAI’s limited preview of GPT-5.6, with the Sol flagship locked to about 20 vetted partners at the U.S. government’s request, marks a turning point: the

OpenAI’s limited preview of GPT-5.6, with the Sol flagship locked to about 20 vetted partners at the U.S. government’s request, marks a turning point: the

Apple has raised prices on many Macs and iPads by $100–$200 or more, blaming a dramatic rise in memory and storage chip costs driven by

The White House has asked OpenAI to limit access to GPT‑5.6, asking that the model be rolled out first to a small set of government‑approved

OpenAI’s new custom chip, Jalapeño, marks a major shift from being a model maker to becoming a full-stack AI company. Built with Broadcom in just

Google DeepMind has lost several high-profile researchers recently, including chatbot pioneer Noam Shazeer and Nobel laureate John Jumper, fueling doubts about whether the lab can stay
Meta recently paused a program that logged keystrokes, mouse movements and screenshots from many U.S. employees after a permissions error made that sensitive data visible widely inside the

General Motors cut over 1,000 jobs at its Factory Zero EV plant in Detroit and installed about 50 Fanuc collaborative robots to handle repetitive assembly

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all acknowledge that Anthropic’s AI leads the field, but these tech giants remain unbothered. Amazon increased its investment in Anthropic to

World leaders and top AI chiefs met at the G7 to discuss safety and rules for powerful systems. Anthropic is locked in a fight with

SpaceX has exercised its option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion. The move follows SpaceX’s blockbuster IPO, whose

Washington’s sudden export restriction on Anthropic’s Fable 5 was presented as a security precaution — but many experts say the move doesn’t hold up technically.

Anthropic has pulled its most powerful models, Mythos and Fable 5, offline worldwide after a U.S. order required the company to block foreign access. The

Anthropic launched Fable 5 as a next-generation public model but bundled it with strict invisible safety filters that silently softened answers on AI development, biology, chemistry,

Jeff Bezos launched his AI startup Prometheus*with $12 billion funding, giving it a $41 billion valuation. The startup will create an “artificial general engineer” — an

The Lord of the Rings quip Dario Amodei used — comparing Washington to slow-moving Treebeard — captures a real frustration: policy is simply not keeping

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, the public version of its new Mythos-class AI. In simple terms, this is a very powerful model wrapped in

The White House has reportedly discussed taking an ownership stake in OpenAI and putting the shares into a public fund meant to share AI profits

Amazon has unveiled Proteus, a new warehouse robot that understands plain-language instructions. Instead of being programmed step-by-step, Proteus can listen to conversational commands, decide which

The fairy tale of AI images is not slowing down; it is getting sharper, smarter and far more precise with every new release. Tools like Ideogram

Google’s new profile acts like a Linktree: it turns the top search result for your name into a single page with your bio, avatar, website,

Scientists are now seeing early signs of systems that help make their own successors — a process called recursive self‑improvement. In simple terms, an AI

Anthropic has expanded Project Glasswing to grant Mythos access to 150 additional organizations across 15 countries, bringing total participating companies to about 200—including India, Samsung,

Microsoft’s Build 2026 marked a clear pivot from being OpenAI’s chief partner to becoming an AI originator. The company released seven in‑house MAI models for reasoning,

Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Laptop Ultra, its most powerful laptop to date, built around Nvidia’s new RTX Spark superchip. The 15-inch machine targets creators,

Last week marked a watershed moment in AI mathematics. OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that its AI had disproved an 80-year-old Erdős conjecture —

Linkerbot is emerging as a striking example of where the next wave of robotics money may go: not just into full humanoid robots, but into

Google’s announcements at I/O 2026 show a clear shift: the company is no longer just adding AI to its products but rebuilding them around autonomous

San Francisco startup Gatsby is piloting an app-based service that dispatches full‑size humanoid robots (Unitree G1 platforms) to clean homes on demand for a flat

Elon Musk’s sprawling $100B suit against OpenAI, its leaders, and Microsoft ended not with a blockbuster ruling on who controls powerful AI, but with the

A single complaint from a 32-year-old in Nizamabad about a fake investment app exposed a money-mule hub. Police traced transfers to account 56820000100031001, linking scams

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI chief, has warned that artificial intelligence could take over a large part of white-collar work within the next 12 to 18

OpenAI just launched Codex inside the ChatGPT iOS and Android apps, letting developers manage long-running AI coding tasks from their phone while the agent keeps

Unitree Robotics of China has unveiled the GD01, a human‑piloted, nine‑foot‑tall robot that switches between walking on two legs and crawling on four. It weighs

Two months ago, OpenAI’s leader Fidji Simo warned staff it was “code red” time because Anthropic was surging in enterprise (big business) AI use. Now,

Google kicked things off early before its big I/O event next week, unveiling major AI upgrades at the Android Show. They introduced AI-native Googlebooks laptops,

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab has finally stepped into view with a clear message: the future of AI may not be only about autonomous agents

Google DeepMind has launched the “AI co-mathematician,” a smart team of AI agents that acts like a research partner for mathematicians. It handles everything from

Anthropic needs more GPUs fast to power Claude, as demand outstrips supply and hits usage caps. Just months ago, Elon Musk called Anthropic “Misanthropic” and

AI’s massive hunger for high-bandwidth memory (HBM) and DRAM is vacuuming up global chip supply, sidelining consumer devices. Data centers from hyperscalers like Nvidia and

OpenAI has launched three new voice AI models: GPT-Realtime-2, GPT-Realtime-Translate, and GPT-Realtime-Whisper. These tools make AI better at handling real-time speech, reasoning, and tasks during

China saw the robotic revolution early and moved fast, with Linkerbot now claiming over 80% of the global market for high‑degree‑of‑freedom robotic hands and eyeing

OpenAI is accelerating development of its first AI agent phone, targeting mass production in the first half of 2027—a year ahead of earlier estimates—driven by

AI needs massive data centers to grow, but building them on land sparks public anger over noise, land use, and power drain. Cities are pushing

A Harvard study published in Science showed OpenAI’s o1-preview model outperforming two attending emergency room physicians across 76 real patient cases, achieving 67.1% diagnostic accuracy

The Google Enterprise Agent Platform marks a leap from “assisting tools” to full‑fledged agentic teammates inside every organization. Instead of humans doing the same repetitive

SpaceX, the trailblazing private space company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, has revolutionized space exploration with reusable rockets and ambitious missions. Key milestones include

The US government and AI company Anthropic have been in a big fight for months. The Pentagon called Anthropic a security risk and banned its

OpenAI and Microsoft have significantly reworked their longstanding partnership agreement. This ends Microsoft’s previous exclusivity over OpenAI’s intellectual property rights. The deal also eliminates the