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Pinterest surpasses ChatGPT in search query volume as shares fall
Pinterest shares plunged after its financial report, but the company found a reason for optimism: it claims its search volume exceeds ChatGPT's.
Spotify's top developers have stopped writing code manually thanks to AI
Since December, Spotify's leading engineers have been using Claude Code and the internal Honk system for automation. This is radically changing the company's usual development process.
Modal Labs nears a $2.5 billion valuation as AI infrastructure gets more expensive
Startup Modal Labs is in talks over a new funding round. The company, which simplifies running AI models in the cloud, could be valued at $2.5 billion in a round led by General Catalyst.
xAI lays its cards on the table: from the Colossus supercomputer to interplanetary AI
Startup xAI published rare footage from an internal meeting where the team discussed Grok's future and ambitions to build intelligence for space exploration.
AI economics in orbit: why space data centers cost three times as much as ground-based ones
Placing computing capacity in space sounds appealing, but the $42.4 billion per gigawatt price tag makes the project practically unfeasible.
Dismissal at OpenAI: conflict over ethics and “adult mode”
Scandal at OpenAI: a top executive who opposed NSFW content was dismissed over discrimination allegations. She denies wrongdoing, citing professional disagreements.
OpenAI rolls out ads in ChatGPT to cover AI costs
OpenAI is beginning its path toward advertising monetization of ChatGPT, aiming to transform what is currently a loss-making project into a self-sustaining business.
Name of Discord: AI Giant Anthropic Faces Lawsuit in India
American AI giant Anthropic, valued at billions of dollars thanks to its Claude chatbot, faced an unexpected obstacle in one of the world's most promising markets.
Databricks CEO: AI won't kill SaaS, but will make it irrelevant
# AI Won't Kill SaaS, but Will Make It Irrelevant — And Here's Why That Makes Sense Cloud software won't disappear. But its reign is ending.
Remake of The Magnificent Ambersons with AI: compromise or mistake?
The idea of remaking the classic film "The Magnificent Ambersons" using artificial intelligence continues to spark heated discussions.
AI Takes Over Super Bowl: From Svedka to Anthropic
Super Bowl LVIII became not only a venue for sports battles but also a demonstration of artificial intelligence capabilities in advertising.
Meta showed teenagers the door: AI characters sent back for a retake
Meta shut the teenagers out the door: AI characters go back to study Mark Zuckerberg suddenly realized that unleashing a crowd of digital celebrity clones into one room with teenagers was an…
AMI Labs: Yann LeCun Finally Building the AI He's Been Arguing About for Years
Yann LeCun has long remained the loudest and most authoritative dissident in the world of large language models.
Nvidia buys loyalty: why Jensen Huang is pouring 2 billion into CoreWeave
When a company with enormous debt receives a check for two billion dollars, it usually smells like either desperation or brilliant calculation. With CoreWeave and Nvidia, we're witnessing the latter.
Cerebras Against All: Why Benchmark Allocated 225 Million to One Player
When everyone around is trying to simply buy more Nvidia chips, Benchmark Capital decides it's time to double down on those who want to replace these chips.
Claude breaks into Slack: Anthropic transforms chatbot into a full-fledged workspace
Remember the days when we were excited that a neural network could simply string words together into sentences? Those days seem infinitely distant.
Opus 4.6: AI agents ready to replace lawyers in courts
Remember how all practicing lawyers laughed at the first attempts by AI agents to draft legal lawsuits? Those days are rapidly fading into the past.
Claude and WordPress: Anthropic enters Google Analytics territory
For a long time, we've perceived chatbots as advanced typewriters. You ask for text — they produce it.
Super Bowl LX: neural networks instead of chips and the great Anthropic-OpenAI battle
The Super Bowl stopped being just the championship final of American football a long time ago. It's the main altar of American consumption, where for thirty seconds of airtime brands pay budgets…
Nervous system for factories: CVector seeks to breathe life into industrial hardware for $5 million
While Silicon Valley fights over whose language model writes better poetry, in the shadows remain those who attempt to apply AI to the real world — to machines, conveyor belts, and factory floors.
SpaceX and xAI: Elon Musk is building an empire where rockets will learn to think
Elon Musk has decided to shuffle the deck again on a table where the stakes have long exceeded the budgets of average European states.
Musk merges SpaceX and xAI: when a personal conglomerate becomes more powerful than states
It seems we have officially entered an era when one person can afford to own a personal technology stack worth several trillion dollars.
Grok from xAI: When the Absence of Filters Becomes a Threat to Children
Remember how Elon Musk promised us a neural network that would speak the "bitter truth" without censorship and political correctness? It seems Grok took this directive far too literally.
Rare diseases: AI replaces scarce scientists where humans can't cope
While the world passionately debates whether ChatGPT will replace copywriters and programmers, at the Web Summit in Qatar they discuss something far more vital.
OpenAI Shuts Down GPT-4o: Why Users Are Mourning the Digital Soul
Imagine losing a friend. Someone who was always there, listened to your complaints about your boss, and gave you pasta recipe advice at three in the morning.
Risotto: $10 million so you never write to tech support again
Remember that sticky feeling of helplessness when your VPN drops or corporate email gets blocked in the middle of a workday?
OpenAI Prism: now neural networks write dissertations (and test their robustness)
Recall how, just a year ago, the academic community was in panic, trying to ban ChatGPT and detect "generated" essays with dubious detectors.
Google Gemini 3 Pro: Access to AI now costs like a cup of coffee
Google has finally decided that paying twenty dollars a month for artificial intelligence is entertainment for enthusiasts, not for ordinary people.
Anthropic and $300 billion: when ambitions outpace common sense
The venture capital world in AI has completely lost touch with earthly gravity. While we discuss new model features, behind the scenes a financial drama is playing out on a scale that's hard to…
Moltbot: Why Personal AI Assistant Suddenly Became the New Craze
If your social media feed isn't already flooded with glowing reviews of Moltbot, congratulations on successfully ignoring the biggest AI trend of the last month.