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Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data center buildout is not any closer to yielding its promised returns. A third thing is also […]
Introducing GPT‑6 Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity model for finding exploitable vulnerabilities and developing fixes, trained to stay within authorized scope.
Merge uses GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, and Codex to review product code and support marketing. Its teams also use AI to plan executive dinners and prepare sales updates.
OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
The company is said to be significantly dropping the amount it's spending on AI for its engineering teams.
Data center opposition crossed party lines in Tuesday’s midterms.
Flipsnack focused its ChatGPT Ads campaigns on getting people to try its product, growing registrations while lowering the cost per signup.
Starting with equity research, Franklin Templeton is developing AI workflows to help portfolio managers compare research views and examine investment risks.
AI industry PACs spent millions influencing the 2026 midterms, with mixed results. Political groups are already looking toward the next election cycle.
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line. During its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company laid out its plans to make a splash in the AI data center business, through partnerships with companies like Amazon and Meta announced earlier […]
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smart phone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said that product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only 4 people booked a ride using an AI agent.
One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics. If your social media of choice is the site formerly known as Twitter, and it is your main source of contact with the outside world, you […]
OpenAI’s Chris Lehane wants AI to define the 2028 election, proposing a new social contract that could benefit Americans while also advancing the AI giant’s own business interests.
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
AT&T's smart home security system now integrates with Gemini for Home. The company says its Connected Life system is the "first" home security product to integrate with Google Home Premium, enabling a bunch of Gemini-powered features that can summarize home events, search your video history, and more. With the update, Gemini for Home can provide […]
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up? On this episode of […]