Here are the 19 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025

Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49…

AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures

So, there’s the training data. Then, there’s the fine-tuning and evaluation. The training data might contain…

Stumbling and Overheating, Most Humanoid Robots Fail to Finish Half Marathon in Beijing

While capabilities like dancing can be fun and eyecatching, they don’t actually show how useful humanoid…

An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess

On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between…

ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform

“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this…

Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities

In the coming years, agents are widely expected to take over more and more chores on…

General Catalyst backs AI agents startup Portia AI in seed round

General Catalyst has backed London-based AI agents startup Portia AI in a £4.4 million seed funding…

‘Human Made’: Artists Push Back on A.I. Dolls and Action Figures

This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that…

Former Tesla supply chain leaders create Atomic, an AI inventory solution

Tesla famously struggled to scale up production of the Model 3 sedan in 2018 — so…

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding

OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to…

An Open Source Pioneer Wants to Unleash Open Source AI Robots

Lapeyre says that selling humanoid robots remains challenging because the use cases are unclear and the…

Trump Wants to Reverse Coal’s Long Decline. It Won’t be Easy.

President Trump last week issued executive orders designed to revive the use of coal in power…

What’s Wrong With Apple? – The New York Times

Even before President Trump’s tariffs threatened to upend Apple’s manufacturing business in China, the company’s struggle…

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages

All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They…

Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military

“We still need to validate the sources,” says Lowdon. But the unit’s commanders encouraged the use…

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse

The Chinese internet giant ByteDance has made some of the world’s most popular apps: TikTok and,…

The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory

At the same time, the risk is immediate and present with agents. When models are not…

Why a Plane-Size Machine Could Foil a Race to Build Gas Power Plants

To hear Trump administration officials and many energy executives tell it, the United States is on…

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring…

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence

Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but…

How Trump Could Make Larry Ellison the Next Media Mogul

For decades, Larry Ellison reveled in being the Silicon Valley executive who really knew how to…

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For…