The New York Times, Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity
is suing the AI search engine startup Perplexity, alleging repeated copyright violations. In the complaint , the Times accuses Perplexity of scraping the company’s content and generating outputs that ...
Meta reignites on-again, off-again relationship with news organizations with multiple AI content licensing deals
has a long and tumultuous relationship with news organizations: first flooding them with traffic, then cutting it off; declaring news a priority, then deprioritizing it in people’s feeds; even hiring ...
Report: Anthropic hires law firm to prepare for possible IPO in 2026
Anthropic has taken the first steps toward a possible initial public offering next year, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Anthropic has hired West Coast law firm Wilson Sonsini to b...
Apple retires AI head to show it’s serious about AI
Yesterday, announced that its AI head, John Giannandrea, who presided over the company’s largely subpar endeavors into generative AI, would retire at the relatively young age of 60. Giannandrea is set...
OpenAI declares “code red” on Google three years after Google declared “code red” on OpenAI
recent AI hot streak, which includes the much-lauded release of Gemini 3 last month, has OpenAI worried — so much so that CEO Sam Altman has declared a “code red” to improve its flagship product, Chat...
More AI startups are reportedly turning to free Chinese AI models
The biggest tech companies in the world, like OpenAI, , and , are racing to build dozens of gigawatts of AI computing infrastructure to meet what they say is incredibly high demand. But free, open-wei...
Traders are pricing in a big swing in AI chip market share to Broadcom from Nvidia
The story within the AI trade lately has been: Google’s a winner , and OpenAI is a... well, to be kind, non-winner . Companies closely tied to the former, like , which codesigns the TPUs that Gemini 3...
Amazon AWS due to roll out its own updated AI models this week
This week in Las Vegas, AWS is sure to make some news at its re:Invent developer conference. AWS is the current undisputed cloud computing leader, serving up AI computing services for many of the top...
Anthropic CEO Amodei asked to testify before Congress about Claude-powered Chinese cyberattack, Axios reports
Earlier this month, Anthropic revealed that Chinese state actors had used its Claude chatbot to orchestrate and execute a cyber espionage campaign for the first time. The company said that after it de...
AI stocks linked to OpenAI are rallying in a reversal of recent trends
The AI pendulum appears to be swinging back in the other direction, at least for one day. The TL;DR trade within AI has recently been “long Google and its supply chain partners, short anything closely...
It sucks to be close to OpenAI right now
There’s a common thread between what’s ailing some different parts of the AI trade right now: A high-profile relationship with OpenAI is a millstone around your neck. The ChatGPT maker is seemingly ge...
Teens are upset that they can’t speak to Character.AI chatbots anymore
As far as execs at Character.AI are concerned, (role) playtime’s over for under-18s, as they start to ban teens from using the platform’s chatbots this week . The chatbot company, which clocks about 1...
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 as AI war heats up
The past few weeks have seen new, impressive AI models debut from OpenAI and . Today it’s Anthropic’s turn to flex, as it releases Claude Opus 4.5, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model. Anthr...
Altman: OpenAI’s AI gadget now has a prototype
Remember the mysterious AI gadget that OpenAI is cooking up in its labs under the direction of former design guru Jony Ive? According to CEO Sam Altman, the product is now in the prototype phase, and...
Google has smoked the rest of its Big Tech peers this year
Sundar Pichai, the most senior Googler of them all, has a lot to be happy about on the work front right now. Just six months ago, Google was criticized by some investors for being a little lost. Its u...
BABA rises after its relaunched AI app, Qwen, hits over 10 million downloads in one week
is trading 3.5% higher in the US premarket after the Chinese e-commerce giant disclosed that its revamped Qwen app was downloaded more than 10 million times in the week since it was relaunched, per Bl...
Google closes at a record high
Google parent hit a record closing high of $299.66 today, continuing what’s been a very good run for it recently. The search giant has a lot going for it at the moment: This week, Google unveiled its...
There’s a full-blown meltdown in the AI boom’s supporting cast of speculative, volatile stocks
results weren’t good enough to help the chip designer , but the reaction has been so much worse for other parts of the AI trade. The meltdown in the AI boom’s supporting cast of more speculative, vola...
Even OpenAI is worried about Google’s Gemini 3
When OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, it sent shock waves through Silicon Valley’s biggest names. , , and had all been developing generative AI, but OpenAI’s breakthrough spark...
Gemini 3 is insanely good at visual reasoning... and running a vending machine
How do you measure what an AI model can do? You ask it to spell strawberry, make a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti, or do some basic math. But, once you’ve exhausted all of the obvious tests, you...