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SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

The actor and investor is joining forces with Morgan Beller, who was previously a GP at NFX, to invest in early-stage startups.

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

TIDAL's new policy will prevent AI-generated music from making money on its service.

Omen AI raised a $31 million Series A to monitor chip coolant and stop bacterial outbreaks in data centers.

"Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence ... that would produce a high-quality product.”

Eager to find more public AI-related companies that may do as well as Nvidia, Wall Street investors think they've found a winner with Micron.

Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers.

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

When confronted with cancer, Connor Christou fed everything tied tied to his regime — blood results, scan data, wearable output, journal entries — into Claude.

Over 100 companies and government agencies are reportedly authorized to use Mythos 5, including their non-American employees.

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

Nvidia has dominated the AI chip market for years, but the era of total dependence might be ending.   OpenAI just shared its plans to spice things up with Jalapeño, its custom inference chip built with Broadcom, joining Google, Apple, and SpaceX in a growing list of companies building their way out ...

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.

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Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

Amazon’s latest India investment comes as global tech companies race to expand AI infrastructure in the country.

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

In its first earnings report since going public, the AI chipmaker forecast a narrower gross margin in its core business, scaring investors.

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers as a share of total new hires have actually increased, according to SignalFire data.

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.