Think Twice Before Creating That ChatGPT Action Figure

At the start of April, an influx of action figure started appearing on social media sites…

2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in…

AI Code Hallucinations Increase the Risk of ‘Package Confusion’ Attacks

AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for…

These Startups Are Building Advanced AI Models Without Data Centers

Researchers have trained a new kind of large language model (LLM) using GPUs dotted across the…

Thrive Capital Creating Vehicle for Serial M&A

Thrive Capital has bet big on artificial intelligence, including emerging giants of the field like OpenAI…

AI Is Using Your Likes to Get Inside Your Head

What is the future of the like button in the age of artificial intelligence? Max Levchin—the…

How the War in Gaza Drove Israel’s A.I. Experiments

In late 2023, Israel was aiming to assassinate Ibrahim Biari, a top Hamas commander in the…

Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI

Ziff Davis, the digital publisher behind tech sites like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, sued OpenAI on…

‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw

Here’s a nice little distraction from your workday: Head to Google, type in any made-up phrase,…

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…