It’s not about Anthropic vs. OpenAI anymore
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry Ellison's comments in 2024.
With falling sales in the US and especially China, VW Group wants to restructure.

Rock weathering may release or draw down carbon dioxide—it depends on the rock.

Move would test whether group can turn ambition into a mass-market phone business.

Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
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OpenAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of with the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.
President Trump plans to nominate a tech critic and telecommunications lawyer, Adam Candeub, to lead the division.

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In a new court filing, The Times accused Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train its A.I. systems using copyrighted articles.

YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.
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A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.”

About a quarter of PCs are still running Microsoft's previous operating system.

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.