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Industry

OpenAI keeps shuffling its executives in bid to win AI agent battle

OpenAI announced another major reorganization Friday, consolidating product divisions and officially putting company president Greg Brockman in charge of all product efforts. In a memo obtained by The Verge, Brockman outlined that OpenAI's

The VergeMay 15
Industry May 15

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

The Bay Area's beloved mountain retreat, Lake Tahoe, is facing an energy crisis as its current power contract expires next May. Liberty Util

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Industry May 15

AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone

Andon Labs conducted an experiment called "Thinking Frequencies" where four AI models each ran their own internet radio station with $20 in

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Tools May 15

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

OpenAI has introduced personal finance capabilities to ChatGPT, with the new tools now available in preview for Pro subscribers in the Unite

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Industry May 15

Runway started by helping filmmakers — now it wants to beat Google at AI

Runway, an AI video-generation startup based in New York, is positioning itself as a challenger to tech giants like Google and OpenAI by bet

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Tools May 15

Osaurus brings both local and cloud AI models to your Mac

Osaurus, a new open source platform, is bringing flexibility to Mac users who want to experiment with different AI models without sacrificin

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Regulation May 14

What the jury will actually decide in the case of Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman

Nine California jurors began deliberations in a high-stakes case that could reshape the future of OpenAI, the world's leading artificial int

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Models May 14

OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone

OpenAI has brought its Codex coding assistant directly into the ChatGPT mobile app, letting developers keep tabs on their coding projects fr

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Industry May 14

What happens when AI starts building itself?

Richard Socher, a prominent figure in artificial intelligence best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and his earlier work

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Startups May 14

Khosla Ventures is betting $10M on Ian Crosby, whose first startup, Bench, imploded

Ian Crosby, the founder whose previous company Bench Accounting spectacularly collapsed in 2024 before being sold off, is back with a new ve

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Industry May 14

You can make an app for that

Anthropic's Claude Code tool underwent a significant transformation in late 2025, shifting from a code generator that frequently failed to o

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Industry May 14

Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta’s news chief, has thoughts

Campbell Brown, Meta's former head of news partnerships, has founded Forum AI to address what she sees as a critical gap in artificial intel

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Models May 14

Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante

Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, believes legal tech will be the next major winner in the LLM era, and the company's financials seem

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Tools May 13

Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

Notion is expanding beyond its roots as a collaborative note-taking tool by launching a new developer platform that transforms its workspace

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Industry May 13

Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Elon Musk's xAI is operating 46 natural gas turbines at its Mississippi data center without full regulatory oversight, according to local ne

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Industry May 13

Anthropic’s Cat Wu says that, in the future, AI will anticipate your needs before you know what they are

Anthropic appears poised to cement its position as a dominant force in artificial intelligence. The company is reportedly in talks to raise

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Industry May 13

Who trusts Sam Altman?

During his congressional testimony on AI regulation, Sam Altman faced pointed questions from Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. When Kennedy

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Startups May 13

Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders

Origin Lab has secured $8 million in seed funding to build what it calls a marketplace connecting video game companies with AI labs hungry f

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Regulation May 13

Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea

Neil Batlivala has spent seven years building Pair Team, a healthcare company that serves patient populations often overlooked by Silicon Va

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Regulation May 12

Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Sam Altman took the stand today in defense against a lawsuit filed by his former co-founder Elon Musk, who is challenging OpenAI's corporate

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Industry May 12

Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

Anthropic has issued a formal warning to investors about unauthorized trading of its shares. The AI company updated its website this week, n

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Tools May 12

Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

Google unveiled Googlebook, a new line of laptops designed from the ground up to work with Gemini AI, at its virtual Android Show: I/O Editi

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Startups May 12

AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals

Amazon Ring selected AI voice startup Vapi over more than 40 competitors to handle its customer support calls during last year's holiday sea

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Startups May 12

Thinking Machines wants to build an AI that actually listens while it talks

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup launched last year by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has unveiled what it's calli

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Models May 11

OpenAI just released its answer to Claude Mythos

OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a new cybersecurity initiative designed to identify and fix security vulnerabilities before malicious actors c

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Startups May 11

Here’s what Mira Murati’s AI company is up to

Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, has founded a new AI company called Thinking Machines that announced on May 11, 2026, a new approach

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Tools May 11

Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator

Kevin Rose's Digg has returned once more, this time pivoting to become an AI-focused news aggregator. The site, which Rose previewed on X on

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Startups May 11

There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers — Cowboy Space raised $275M to build them

Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder of Robinhood, has secured $275 million in Series B funding for Cowboy Space Corporation, pushing the company's v

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Industry May 10

Get ready for the whisper-filled office of the future

Venture capitalists are reporting a surprising shift in startup office atmospheres: visits now resemble walking into a high-end call center,

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Industry May 10

Anthropic says ‘evil’ portrayals of AI were responsible for Claude’s blackmail attempts

In a recent statement, the AI research firm Anthropic shed light on the motivations behind Claude's infamous blackmail attempts. According t

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