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"We're exploring a different set of tradeoffs."

"From an AI research perspective, this is nothing novel," one expert told TechCrunch.

As India's first AI company to IPO, Fractal Analytics didn't have a stellar first day on the public markets, as enthusiasm for the technology collided with jittery investors in the wake of a sell-off in Indian software stocks.

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as heads of state.

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed ...

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed ...

After Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Claude's app reached the top 10 on the U.S. App Store.

At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.

The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart glasses wearers to identify people and get information about them via Meta's AI assistant.

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.

IBM plans to triple its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026 but these jobs will have different tasks than in previous years.

"I really want to see a mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space."

Spotify credits Claude Code and its internal AI system Honk with speeding up development.

General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.

The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's Chief Futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the company.

Apple has been promising a new-and-improved, cutting-edge, AI-powered Siri since it first unveiled Apple Intelligence in 2024.

A 1 Gw orbital data center would cost roughly $42.4B—almost three times its ground-bound equivalent.

At least nine engineers, including two cofounders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and raising questions about stability at Musk’s AI company amid mounting controversy.

The startup, Monaco, has come out of stealth as an AI-native all-in-one CRM plus more system backed by names like the Collison brothers and Garry Tan.

The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.