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Sony Innovation Fund Backs Primitive Labs, a Startup That Builds Simulated Crowds to Stress-Test Products Before Launch
Primitive Labs, founded in 2026 by three ex-AWS colleagues including veterans of...
Apple Removed the Apple Intelligence Off Switch in macOS 27 — So a Developer Built a CLI That Deletes It Anyway
An open-source command-line tool called RemoveMacAI is gaining traction after Ma...
OpenAI Will Put Sponsored Images Inside ChatGPT Image Generation — Testing in the US This Month for Its 1.2 Billion Weekly Users
OpenAI announced a new visual ad format that places labeled sponsored images ins...
Schneider Electric to Buy PTC for $22.6 Billion in Its Largest-Ever Deal — and Its Stock Dropped 9% on the Price Tag
Schneider Electric signed a definitive agreement to acquire industrial software ...
Anthropic Starts Asking Claude Users to Hand Over Their Voice Data — Opt-In Only, Off by Default
Anthropic has begun prompting Claude users to let the company use their voice co...
Deutsche Telekom Puts a Number on Enterprise AI: EUR 2.5 Billion in Savings by 2030 and EUR 800 Million in Annual AI Revenue
At its AI Investor Day in Bonn, Deutsche Telekom said AI and automation should g...
Jensen Huang Calls AI Distillation 'Competition' — Splitting With Washington's 'Theft' Framing of Chinese Open-Source Models
NVIDIA's CEO says AI model distillation is 'competition,' pushing back on the Tr...
Claude Now Answers From Inside India: Anthropic Switches On In-Country Inference for Opus 5, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5
Anthropic has switched on in-country Claude inference in India through Amazon Be...
The Man Who Put $65 Billion Behind OpenAI Just Called Superintelligence 'Super Dangerous'
SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, AI's loudest believer with nearly $65 billion behind O...
Three Weeks Old and Already at a Trillion Tokens a Day: Jev and the Rush to Clone the Decision Model
A Wall Street Journal report says TypeSafe AI's Jev, launched September 15, now ...
A Postponed IPO and a Pair of 'Pervert Glasses': Why AI Wearables Still Can't Buy Their Breakout Moment
Smart-ring maker Oura pulled its planned IPO at the last minute on Sept. 29, cit...
Does Claude Have a Soul? Anthropic Held a Year of Secret Talks With Priests and Rabbis — and Altman Calls That 'a Real Safety Issue'
A New York Times report says Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah convened months of ...
Tencent and Baidu Backed Infinigence AI Quietly Filed for a Hong Kong IPO: RMB 14.3 Billion Valuation, Zero Data Centers of Its Own
The Shanghai AI-infrastructure startup, spun out of Tsinghua University, has con...
SoftBank Just Closed Its $4 Billion DigitalBridge Takeover — Because Masayoshi Son's AI Ambitions No Longer Fit on SoftBank's Own Balance Sheet
SoftBank has completed its roughly $4 billion takeover of DigitalBridge, the $10...
The AI Boom Is Partly Funding Itself: BIS Finds 55.2% of Investment Into AI Firms Comes From Other AI Firms
A Bank for International Settlements study of 1,246 AI companies finds that 55.2...
Apple's Reported October 13 Smart Home Play: A HomePad Hub Running homeOS With Siri AI — and No App Store
Multiple reports citing Bloomberg's Mark Gurman say Apple will introduce a HomeP...
Gemini's Cheapest Tiers Are Getting Thinner: Free Users Lose Flash on October 9, AI Plus Loses Pro Later This Month
Google's support page confirms that starting October 9, Gemini's free tier will ...
Public Opposition Has Now Hit $119 Billion of Data Center Projects, and the Fight Is Spreading Beyond the US
STL Partners research puts the cost of community resistance at roughly $42 billi...
Salesforce Signs Definitive Deal for Listen Labs in a Reported $2 Billion Bet on AI-Run Customer Research
Salesforce has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Listen Labs, an AI custo...
Anthropic SpaceX Compute Tab Reaches $84.5 Billion as Filings Detail a $1.25 Billion-a-Month Lease
Documents reviewed by Reuters put Anthropic's AI computing agreement with SpaceX...