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21 stories taggedAI business.
Anthropic and a Billion-Dollar Robot Startup Held Talks This Spring. Here Is What We Know.
A weekend rumour about Anthropic buying robotics firm Physical Intelligence turned out to be more grounded than the denial suggested. And OpenAI may already hold cards that complicate any deal.
How AI is turning your music app into your everything app
Spotify, Netflix, YouTube and TikTok all started by owning one thing. AI is now pushing each of them to own everything.
Apple Is Suing OpenAI Over Stolen Secrets. What Does That Mean for OpenAI's Big Hardware Bet?
A trade secrets lawsuit filed last Friday could slow OpenAI's push into consumer hardware and complicate a stock market debut expected as soon as late this year.
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Stolen Trade Secrets, and the Timing Hits Hard
Apple claims more than 400 of its former employees took confidential knowledge to OpenAI. The lawsuit lands just as OpenAI is trying to go public.
A 'Very Small' Number of Nvidia's H200 AI Chips Have Made It to China, Says U.S. Official
Shipments have restarted, but only in tiny quantities. Here is what that means for Nvidia, China, and the tech cold war playing out between them.
Anthropic Wants Stricter AI Laws. Not Everyone Thinks Its Motives Are Pure.
The maker of the Claude chatbot is pushing states to regulate frontier AI harder than anyone in Silicon Valley expected. The company says safety demands it. Critics say it is a business play dressed up as public interest.
OpenAI Is Selling a $70 Basketball and a $175 Quarter-Zip. Who Is the Customer?
The ChatGPT maker has quietly launched a line of branded merchandise, including a rubber basketball and academic-themed clothing. It is less clear who is supposed to buy any of it.
Microsoft is coaching its sales team to badmouth OpenAI and Anthropic
The company that built its AI business on partners' models is now telling salespeople those same models are slower, less accurate, and too expensive.
A small team, a big bet: Ode and Anthropic want to replace whole consulting firms with a few sharp engineers
A new joint venture is planting AI specialists inside large companies, backed by some of the biggest names in finance. The question is whether a tiny crew armed with the right tools can outperform an army of traditional consultants.
Mira Murati's AI Startup Just Released Its First Model. It Wants Companies to Own Their AI, Not Rent It.
Thinking Machines Lab launched Inkling, a free-to-download AI model built for businesses that want to customise their own AI instead of paying a monthly fee to OpenAI or Google.
AI Routing Sounded Like Easy Savings. The Reality Cost Twice as Much.
A team building smart AI systems thought sending simple tasks to cheaper AI models would cut costs. Then the numbers came in.
Meet Ode: The $1.5 Billion Company Anthropic Built to Put Its AI to Work Inside Your Business
Anthropic and a group of private equity firms have launched Ode, a new company that sends specialist engineers directly into businesses to implement AI. It is a bet that knowing how to use AI is now worth as much as building it.
Vint Cerf just joined a startup trying to give AI agents a verifiable ID on the internet
One of the people who built the internet thinks AI agents need passports. He's now helping design them.
Greg Brockman takes charge at OpenAI as Fidji Simo steps down due to illness
OpenAI's co-founder and president absorbs the company's product and commercial operations, just as OpenAI files quietly for a future stock-market debut.
Open-source AI models from China now dominate developer downloads. Does the frontier still matter?
Chinese open-weight models took 41% of Hugging Face downloads this spring. Developers are building with cheaper, customisable alternatives, and some big names think that shift is permanent.