Google may have a better AI smartphone, but Apple sells a lot more of them
On Wednesday, unveiled AI features on its new Pixel 10 that — if they work as advertised — put those on last iPhone to shame. However, as far as US market share goes, for now Apple’s iPhone is far an...
Google shows off AI features Apple failed to deliver
At its annual hardware event, debuted a slate of new gadgets including its Pixel 10 smartphones. While they included features like foldable screens, faster chips, and incrementally better cameras, th...
S&P 500 falls even with most stocks rising as traders dump AI names
The nascent pullback across high-flying, AI-linked names picked up steam on Tuesday, sending major indexes down even as most stocks went up. The S&P 500 fell 0.6% despite having far more gainers than ...
Palantir leads the way down as momentum stocks crater
Behind the upturn in the average S&P 500 component on Tuesday, with the up about 0.2%, is some serious damage in the highest-flying stocks. , the poster child for richly valued AI stocks and the best...
Dan Ives freshens up list of favorite AI stocks with additions of CrowdStrike, Roblox, GE Vernova, and Nebius
Dan Ives, longtime global head of technology research at Wedbush Securities and recent fashion designer , is giving his “AI 30” list of companies he says will “define the future of the AI theme over t...
OpenAI wants to buy Google’s Chrome, too
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Axios’ Ina Fried that, just like Perplexity , the ChatGPT maker is also interested in buying Chrome browser, should the search giant be forced to sell in its antitrust tria...
Bloomberg’s review of Meta’s AI app: Inconsistent, impersonal, prone to hallucinations
Considering the gobs of money is throwing at its artificial intelligence efforts, its Meta AI app that launched this spring is pretty mid, according to a review from Bloomberg. Some issues: an uneven ...
Anthropic offers Claude AI to federal agencies for $1
Earlier this month, OpenAI announced that it was offering ChatGPT Enterprise to US federal agencies for $1 in a yearlong deal with the General Services Administration. Today, Anthropic is following su...
OpenAI backtracks on plan to mothball old AI models after user outcry
After a splashy (but rocky) rollout last week of OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-5, users pushed back loudly on the company’s plan to deprecate older models in place of the new release. CEO Sam Al...
GPT-5: “A legitimate PhD level expert in anything” that sucks at spelling and geography
Yesterday, OpenAI spent a lot of time talking about how “smart” its new GPT-5 model was. OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman said of GPT-5: “It’s like talking to an expert, a legitimate PhD level expe...
OpenAI releases its long-awaited flagship model, GPT-5
Looking back to November 2022, when ChatGPT was released to the world as a technical preview, it’s dizzying to think of the incredible progress — and the hundreds of billions of dollars — that AI star...
OpenAI releases open-weight “gpt-oss” models to compete with DeepSeek, Meta
Today, OpenAI released “ gpt-oss ,” its first “open-weight” large language model since 2019’s GPT-2 . The new “reasoning” model comes in two sizes, 120b and 20b, and can be run locally on a laptop — a...
ChatGPT says maybe you should spend less time on ChatGPT
OpenAI says it wants you to use its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, less. “Our goal isn’t to hold your attention, but to help you use it well,” the company wrote in a blog post today. “Often, less time in the pr...
AI startups’ high-velocity valuations are shooting sky-high
Investors are pouring billions into AI startups at a feverish pace, and valuations are shooting sky-high. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic is closing in on a $5 billion fundraising round, ...
Ives: Apple AI innovation “is not coming from inside the walls of Apple Park”
Another day, another Dan Ives note urging to acquire AI search engine Perplexity , lest it face a “historic strategic black eye” and be left behind in the “AI Revolution” by competitors like OpenAI, ...
Ahead of earnings, Meta CEO Zuckerberg posts manifesto about superintelligence
CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a mini manifesto about superintelligence this morning, ahead of the company’s earnings report this afternoon. It includes plenty of standard AI booster fare about AI that’s ...
Zuckerberg to run AI team like a startup “unencumbered by the bureaucracy” of Meta
CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to run his AI “superintelligence” team like a startup, the Financial Times reports . His goal for the unit, which includes top AI talent poached from competitors like OpenAI ...
ChatGPT cocreator named chief AI scientist of Meta’s “superintelligence” team
“superintelligence” team is taking shape. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has successfully wooed at least 10 AI all-stars from archrival OpenAI (with pay packages reported to be worth hundreds of millions of...
OpenAI’s new “agent” is here to help you buy tuxedos, book luxury hotels, and order batches of cupcakes excruciatingly slowly
“Agentic AI” is the latest buzzword in tech, as the industry furiously races to monetize the costly technology. Yesterday OpenAI announced its second offering in the emerging category: “ ChatGPT Agent...
Two more top OpenAI researchers defect to Meta
hiring spree for its new “superintelligence” team has bagged two new high-profile defectors from OpenAI. Wired reports that Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung have left their roles at OpenAI for Mark Zucke...