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The AI industry entered 2025 with strong momentum.  There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in…

Against that backdrop, Europe’s reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst…

Earlier this week, the California attorney general’s office announced that it was investigating xAI over reports that the startup’s chatbot,…

Leaders at Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab confronted the startup’s cofounder and former CTO, Barret Zoph, over an alleged relationship…

OpenAI is finally ready to see if its users will trade their screen real estate for a free chat.The AI…

OpenAI plans to start testing ads inside ChatGPT in the coming weeks, marking a significant shift for one of the…

On Thursday, OpenAI announced its investment in neurotech startup Merge Labs, cofounded by its CEO, billionaire Sam Altman. OpenAI will…

Newsrooms have been experimenting with AI for several years now but, for the most part, those efforts have been just…

If someone ever makes an HBO Max series about the AI industry, the events of this week will make quite…

Elon Musk’s X has introduced new restrictions stopping people from editing and generating images of real people in bikinis or…

Higgsfield, an AI video startup positioning itself at the center of advertising’s shift toward synthetic media, has hired former Perplexity…

As a software reporter at WIRED, I’ve tested a lot of shitty agents over the past couple of years. These…

After months of rumors the Trump administration was going to impose tariffs on semiconductors, a tariff has been announced for…

At the start of 2024, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI were united against military use of their AI tools. But…

Former OpenAI exec Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, is saying goodbye to two of its co-founders, both of whom…

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