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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.

Revenue quadrupled to $41.45 billion compared with the same period a year ago. The company's profit, meanwhile, rose from $1.88 billion to an incredible $28.2 billion year-over-year.

The tokenmaxxing era was brief. We now appear to be entering the era of token rationing.

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack. But beyond productivity, the feature is a strategic play to capture organizational context, institutional knowledge, and enterprise workflows.

A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.

Nvidia announced a new cooling system that cuts water use inside the data center. But it does nothing to address AI's biggest water use — fossil fuel power plants.

Amazon sent emails to customers inviting them to test Alexa+

Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

For the last 30 years, stopping the flow of cybersecurity-related software has proven to be ineffective. It's unclear why it would work now with Anthropic’s cybersecurity model Mythos.

Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.