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Meta is betting the farm on AI, regardless of the mounting price tag. Now, the company is reportedly gearing up to slash one-fifth of its workforce through wide-reaching layoffs, according to an exclu

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that

OpenAI said it will eventually launch a text-only adult mode for ChatGPT, the Wall Street Journal reports, despite what are strong misgivings from the company's own advisers.In adult mode, ChatGPT use

Anthropic’s latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn’t meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic’s head of economics

The latest models for ChatGPT users and developers using OpenAI's API are designed to be workhorses, built for tasks like vibe coding, where big, powerful AI models are expensive overkill. GPT-5.4 min

If Google’s AI researchers had a sense of humor, they would have called TurboQuant, the new, ultra-efficient AI memory compression algorithm announced Tuesday, “Pied Piper” — or, at least that’s what

What if your AI agent assistant didn't just chat or write code but carried out real, helpful tasks -- all on its own? And what if it could perform especially complicated tasks, like running scheduled

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At a press conference at the White House on Wednesday, First Lady Melania Trump showed up with a humanoid robot developed by robotics firm Figure AI. The duo waltzed down a red carpet together before

The explosion of new data center projects in the U.S. has led to a growing backlash against the infrastructure that powers AI. Two influential politicians are now proposing a ban on any new data cente

A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in its twisty legal battle with the Trump administration, awarding the tech company an injunction against the government’s recent order that labeled it a “supp

When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just mad

As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors — a

OpenAI has put the kibosh on yet another project — at least for the time being. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that the AI company would be “indefinitely” pausing plans to develop an “eroti

Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the U.S. Ener