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Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor
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How to Build Reliable AI Agent Systems for Production
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How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid
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OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer
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Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
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When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
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Anthropic's IPO filing shows soaring revenue, mounting costs, and "existential" risks
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OpenAI reopens its $200 Pro plan but cuts API credits in half as it nudges users toward pay-per-use
Sep 29, 2026
The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
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Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch
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More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
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A Wuhan court just made AI production costs a legal factor in copyright infringement cases
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From Raw Data to Graph-Native AI
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Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
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OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
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Every AI lab thinks it's the responsible one, and safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt says that's what keeps the arms race going
Sep 28, 2026
The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index
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Tens of thousands of security probes show OpenAI's Hugging Face incident was just the beginning
Sep 28, 2026
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
Sep 28, 2026
Anthropic’s founders seek voting control ahead of IPO
Sep 28, 2026
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
Sep 28, 2026
Researchers plug GPT-6 Astra directly into a robot and let it clean up an unfamiliar kitchen
Sep 27, 2026
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Sep 27, 2026
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Sep 27, 2026
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
Sep 27, 2026
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
Sep 27, 2026
Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
Sep 27, 2026
Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge
Sep 27, 2026
Ruby on Rails creator DHH says he's done writing code by hand
Sep 26, 2026
This Week in AI: AI’s Safety Problem
Sep 26, 2026
At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere
Sep 26, 2026
Sakana AI hires Jürgen Schmidhuber, inventor of deep learning, world models, and your next ChatGPT update
Sep 25, 2026
Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy
Sep 25, 2026
Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control
Sep 25, 2026
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Sep 25, 2026
Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
Sep 25, 2026
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX 3 Action, an open robotics AI model
Sep 24, 2026
Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent
Sep 24, 2026
YouTube adds AI tools to Creator Studio with script coaching, smart thumbnails, and Gemini editing
Sep 23, 2026
Nvidia-backed Nscale keeps its biggest customer, Bytedance, out of its IPO filing
Sep 23, 2026
Inside Basecamp Research, the AI startup turning evolution into training data
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