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Manus raises over $500M to rebuild its agent alone

The Chinese agent developer lands a Boyu Capital-led round at a reported $4B valuation after…

Agentic AI Foundation takes on four projects and reaches ten total

OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face and Alibaba each handed over a component of the agent stack.

TypeSafe banks $870M at a $7.5B valuation weeks after Jev launch

TypeSafe, maker of the non-text Jev model, has raised $870M at a $7.5B valuation led…

Anthropic rewrites its usage rules to ban abusive chats and election meddling

Anthropic's updated usage policy outlaws election interference, weapons software, surveillance and prolonged verbal abuse of…

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OpenAI’s Trusted Contact Feature Raises Questions About Surveillance and Consent

OpenAI's new safety feature for ChatGPT, which notifies a designated contact of potential self-harm conversations, trades privacy for protection and…

SpaceX swallows xAI whole — say hello to SpaceXAI

Musk has officially dissolved xAI into SpaceX, creating a vertically integrated AI and space monopoly that raises serious questions about…

The Great Data Center Grab: How Big Tech’s Energy Hunger Is Sparking a Backlash

As communities fight back against AI data centers driving up utility bills and polluting neighborhoods, tech giants' promises to 'be…

The Great AGI Rebrand: How Tech Titans Are Selling The Same Snake Oil Under New Acronyms

Tech CEOs are ditching the term AGI for safer sounding acronyms like PSI, HSI, and UGI, but the underlying goal…

Inside the AI Clipping Scam: When Perplexity Claims It Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Its Own Marketing

Perplexity AI claims it has no knowledge of a paid clipping campaign promoting its brand, but its spokesperson's evasion suggests…

Google Turns AI Search Into a Reddit Citation Engine: Chaos or Curation?

Google's AI search now pulls quotes from Reddit and forums, a cynical move that swaps genuine answers for curated crowdsourcing,…

The AI Supply Chain Is Fracturing: Insiders Spill on Chip Shortages, Orbital Data Centers, and Why Scaling May Be a Dead End

At the Milken Institute, five AI industry insiders, from ASML's CEO to the founder of a radical new AI architecture,…

DeepSeek’s $45 Billion Gamble: State Cash and a Power Play for AI Independence

The Chinese AI lab that shocked the West with a low cost, high performance model is now desperately trying to…