Microsoft to cut up to 9,000 more jobs as it invests in AI
Microsoft has confirmed that it will lay off as many as 9,000 workers, in the technology giant’s latest wave of…
Month: July 2025
Sutskever to lead Safe Superintelligence after Meta poaches CEO Gross in AI talent war
Ilya Sutskever has taken over the reins of Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the artificial intelligence startup he launched last year, after…
Why Meta Is Offering $100 Million for AI Geniuses
Meta Platforms, under the leadership of CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is making headlines for its aggressive push into the artificial intelligence…
AI Models and Tools: OpenAI Enables Creation of Shopify AI Assistants
OpenAI unveiled a way for retailers to create artificial intelligence (AI) shopping assistants in Shopify, according to a post on X. With…
OpenAI condemns Robinhood’s ‘OpenAI tokens’
OpenAI wants to make clear that Robinhood’s sale of “OpenAI tokens” will not give everyday consumers equity — or stock…
CyXcel research discovers a third of UK businesses at AI risk
Research by cybersecurity consultancy CyXcel has revealed 29% of UK businesses surveyed have only recently implemented their first AI risk…
Campfire Raises $35 Million for AI-Driven ERP System for Startups
Campfire raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to continue building its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven enterprise resource planning (ERP)…
New AI Startup Turns a Dog’s Bark Into a Human Conversation
Animal behaviorist Con Slobodchikoff has spent decades listening to how prairie dogs talk to each other. Now, the biologist is teaching machines…
Ford, JPMorgan, Amazon Executives Predict Deep Job Cuts as AI Advances
Top U.S. executives are now openly predicting that artificial intelligence will eliminate a significant share of white-collar jobs, marking a…
Anthropic Annual Revenue Reportedly Reaches $4 Billion
Artificial intelligence (AI) firm Anthropic’s yearly revenue has reportedly reached $4 billion. That’s according to a report Tuesday (July 1) from The Information,…
Robotics Startup Genesis AI Launches With $105 Million in Funding
Robotics startup Genesis AI emerged from stealth with $105 million in seed funding. Genesis AI aims to create a general-purpose artificial intelligence…
AI is advancing even faster than sci-fi visionaries like Neal Stephenson imagined
Every time I read about another advance in AI technology, I feel like another figment of science fiction moves closer…
OU launches new AI initiative supporting 20 new university-wide projects
The University of Oklahoma has launched a new artificial intelligence initiative, pledging nearly $200,000 towards programs designed to transform the…
ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines
Referrals from ChatGPT to news publishers are growing, but not enough to counter the decline in clicks resulting from users increasingly…
Could Google’s Veo 3 be the start of playable world models?
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google’s AI research organization DeepMind, appeared to suggest Tuesday evening that Veo 3, Google’s latest video-generating…
Perplexity launches a $200 monthly subscription plan
Perplexity is launching a $200-per-month subscription plan for its power users, the company announced in a blog post Tuesday. The plan, Perplexity…
Study finds AI can slash global carbon emissions
A study from the London School of Economics and Systemiq suggests it’s possible to cut global carbon emissions without giving up modern comforts—with AI…
How businesses can use local AI models to improve data privacy
Businesses intending to use AI do not have to rely on cloud-based tools like Chat-GPT, which tend to require uploading…
Microsoft to cut about 4% of jobs amid hefty AI bets
Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will lay off nearly 4% of its workforce, the company said on Wednesday, in the latest job…
Exclusive: Scale AI’s bigger rival Surge AI seeks up to $1 billion capital raise, sources say
Surge AI, a data-labeling firm that competes with Scale AI, has hired advisors to raise as much as $1 billion…