Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $1 billion to extend human lifespan

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doubling down on Retro Biosciences, a biotech startup based in San…

In motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First Amendment

Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a…

The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed

To outside observers, AI researchers are in an enviable position. They’re sought after by tech giants.…

AI companies upped their federal lobbying spend in 2024 amid regulatory uncertainty

Companies spent significantly more lobbying AI issues at the U.S. federal level last year compared to…

People are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapes

The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Over the past few days, some in…

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this…

OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs

Stargate — the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S. —…

OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025…

Even some of the best AI can’t beat this new benchmark

The nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI, a company that provides a number…

OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days

OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the…

OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate

We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, the…

Perplexity launches an assistant for Android

AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, which Perplexity says…

ChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it’s back up

OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. Early this morning, ChatGPT users started…

Fundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donations

Many nonprofits are stuck with outdated, expensive, and limited tech that hinders their ability to fund…

Samsung Unpacked 2025: Samsung’s AI-focused Galaxy S25 Ultra ships February 7 for $1,300

Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest additions to its Galaxy S flagship smartphone line at the…

Scale AI is facing a third worker lawsuit in about a month 

Scale AI is facing its ??third lawsuit over alleged labor practices in just over a month,…

Samsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated images

Another tidbit just dropped following Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked event. This one comes courtesy of Adobe, which…

Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand

A South Carolina utility wants to restart construction on a power plant that was mothballed eight…

Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from Google

Anthropic has reportedly raised around $1 billion from Google as the AI company looks to deliver…

Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider

Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run…

OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project

OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with…

Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI

Alexandr Wang, the CEO of Scale AI, has taken out a full-page ad in The Washington…