OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company
…Earlier on Friday, the company announced a new series of AI models—GPT-Rosalind—built to help life sciences researchers work faster. OpenAI is trying to refocus the company around a few…
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Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
…Not for the ways in which Sam Altman and all these other AI people greatly overemphasize how powerful and scary their new tool is in an effort to fundraise another $500 billion…
Vertu Is Back With a Folding Phone Powered by—Surprise—an AI Agent
…You says Vertu uses the open source foundations of the Hermes Project, associated with Nous Research, a New York City-based startup. However, this model is the brain, and Vertu has its…
Anthropic Sues Department of Defense Over Supply-Chain-Risk Designation
…The AI startup, which develops a suite of AI models called Claude, is facing the possibility of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue from the Pentagon and the rest…
I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…Agrawal and Haarnoja also say they have developed a new kind of AI algorithm called a vision-force-action model. This model learns from a simulation that incorporates not just realistic joints…
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
…New York Times in February showed the company had planned to roll out the feature during a “dynamic political environment,” when Meta believed its biggest critics would be preoccupied. Three AI models…
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
…At the same time, he is running an AI company, xAI, that puts very few guardrails on what people can do with those models. They famously have launched AI girlfriends that talk…
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
…Immediate Backlash The new rule drew swift backlash from AI researchers around the world, particularly in China, which produces a large quantity of cutting-edge machine learning papers and is home to…
Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
…But it relies on open source generative AI models combined with some retail-specific ones trained on decades of Walmart data. “We're able to route certain questions to one model and…
Elon Musk Loses Landmark Lawsuit Against OpenAI
…OpenAI is nowhere near turning a profit—it has continued spending heavily to improve and operate its AI models. But annualized revenue from subscriptions, licensing, and ads surpassed $20 billion in 2025…