Washington Opens AI Sandbox for Federal Agencies
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday (Aug. 14) launched USAi, a secure artificial intelligence (AI) platform designed to…
States Have Introduced 260 AI-Related Bills So Far This Year Despite Federal Opposition
While the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have lately cast a gimlet eye on state-level AI regulations, a comprehensive…
Google Beats Apple in Smartphone AI Race
Apple is behind Google in the race to add artificial intelligence (AI) features to smartphones, according to Wall Street Journal…
DeepSeek Marks Push Toward Agentic AI With New Model
DeepSeek said its new artificial intelligence model released this week surpasses its flagship R1 tool in some ways. The launch…
Meta Halts AI Hiring Following Recruitment Push
Meta has reportedly paused hiring for artificial intelligence (AI) professionals following a massive recruitment drive. The freeze went into effect…
OpenAI Weighs Letting Other Companies Tap Its Data Centers
OpenAI could someday let other businesses tap into data centers needed for artificial intelligence (AI). That’s according to a report…
Google Unveils AI Voice Assistant for the Home
Google is replacing its nearly decade-old Google Assistant with a chatbot that is smarter and more intuitive, powered by the…
Google unveils latest Pixel phones packed with AI
Google on Wednesday unveiled new Pixel 10 smartphones that promise more artificial intelligence capabilities, as it seeks to elbow out…
Character.AI Explores Sale or New Funding Amid Rising Costs
Character.AI is weighing its options between a potential sale or raising new capital, sources told The Information. The maker of…
FieldAI Raises $405 Million for Robotic AI and General-Purpose Robots
FieldAI said Wednesday (Aug. 20) that it raised $405 million in two consecutive rounds to accelerate the global adoption of…
Databricks Targets $100 Billion Valuation in New Funding Round
Data analytics firm Databricks is reportedly hoping to become a $100 billion company. The business is finalizing a funding round…
Nvidia-Backed AI Cloud Startup Lambda Closes $275 Million Credit Facility
Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud startup Lambda said Tuesday (Aug. 19) that it has closed a $275 million senior secured credit…
Will Vibe Coding Spark a New Economy?
Vibe coding is the practice of using artificial intelligence (AI) to build applications by describing ideas in plain language. For…
AI Bubble Worries ‘Spooking’ Tech Investors
Fears that the AI industry is overhyped are reportedly helping drive down tech stocks. That’s according to a Financial Times…
Robinhood Adds AI-Powered Summaries to Cortex Investing Assistant
Robinhood has announced a new feature for Cortex, its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered investing assistant. Digests, announced Tuesday (Aug. 19), uses…
Nvidia working on new AI chip for China that outperforms the H20, sources say
Nvidia is developing a new artificial intelligence chip for China based on its latest Blackwell architecture that will be more…
MIT Researchers Craft New Molecules With Gen AI to Create Superbug Antibiotics
MIT researchers used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to create molecules that didn’t exist before to develop promising antibiotics candidates for…
Softbank Builds on AI Investments With $2 Billion Intel Partnership
Japanese conglomerate SoftBank is making a $2 billion investment into chipmaker Intel. The companies say the new arrangement, announced Monday…
AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees
Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A. He…
Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech
Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze,…