OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is Big Tech’s spiciest move away from Nvidia

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns | AI News

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and car...

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool | AI News

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending....

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents | AI News

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, h...

Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function | AI News

Airbnb will debut a new AI-powered search experience with a toggle....

Jill Lepore on the ‘Artificial State’ and why Silicon Valley’s leaders are bad sci-fi readers | AI News

Historian Jill Lepore has a theory about why tech companies often use soaring language to describe their products — almost as if they...

New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case | AI News

Meta's total fine has racked up to $942 million in this case....

OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400 | AI News

Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker....

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users | AI News

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries....

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company | AI News

Taking vibe-coding a step further, Naïve claims its infra can automate most of the work in setting up and running a business....

Gen Z dating apps like Ditto ditch swiping in favor of AI matchmaking | AI News

This generation of twentysomethings is so disillusioned with swipe-based dating apps that they'll try literally anything else — even an AI matchmake...

OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case | AI News

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practi...

Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs | AI News

Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts....

Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce | AI News

The startup's platform predicts which product a shopper wants next, learns their general taste, and fine-tunes continuously based on what they do in r...

Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI | AI News

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research into self-improving AI system...

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings | AI News

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an assistant that's capable of hel...

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform | AI News

The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020. In that time, it has increased its ARR by 10x to $60 million....

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases | AI News

Meta expanded its AI coding offerings with a new agent that, it promises, can handle complex tasks with complex software....

Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders | AI News

The serial entrepreneur joins the e-commerce company as CPO to lead its AI agents....

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup | AI News

The legendary Google executive is joined by other outgoing Google execs in a joint mission to use AI to push forward the process of scientific discove...

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google | AI News

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled ye...

How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory | AI News

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client serv...

Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users | AI News

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GP...

Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI | AI News

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental h...

From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work | AI News

New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior....

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models | AI News

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation....

Introducing the OpenAI Economic Research Exchange | AI News

OpenAI launches the Economic Research Exchange to study AI’s impact on jobs, productivity, and the economy. Applications are now open for selected r...

Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities | AI News

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls....

New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex | AI News

Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build....

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership | AI News

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming A...

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits | AI News

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed....

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls | AI News

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business....

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | AI News

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or a...

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course | AI News

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI....

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out | AI News

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod....

The latest AI news we announced in July 2026 | AI News

Here are Google’s latest AI updates from July 2026...

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers | AI News

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built. ...

Apple is getting this wrong | AI News

OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened....

Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology | AI News

Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development ef...

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’ | AI News

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy fo...

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months | AI News

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversatio...

AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big | AI News

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from mo...

DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models | AI News

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs....

Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip | AI News

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. ...

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? | AI News

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI...

Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics | AI News

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid ro...

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT | AI News

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, ...

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem | AI News

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler. ...

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals | AI News

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can r...

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate | AI News

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."...

Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps | AI News

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward....

The running list: major tech layoffs in 2026 where employers cited AI

Our latest Google Finance upgrades, including a new app

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US

How Omio is building the future of conversational travel

Previewing GPT-5.6 Sol: a next-generation model