After partnering with Moises earlier this year, SoundCloud is now adding integration with another AI music platform, ElevenLabs. Now, rather than having to export and download your outputs from ElevenLabs and then upload them to SoundCloud, you can publish them directly.
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
While frontier AI models have solved a remarkable series of outstanding mathematics problems and made progress in the life sciences, they have yet to truly plumb the complex physics in advanced materials.
After four of the biggest competitors in the AI race held quarterly earnings calls late last month, two things are clear: Big Tech is not done spending record amounts on the AI data center buildout, and the AI data center buildout is not any closer to yielding its promised returns.
OpenAI’s Linux kernel security work, Kimi K3.1 Pro’s open weights, and Ricursive’s Ripple-65B.
The tokenmaxxing frenzy has been short-lived as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.
With smartphone sales tanking by around 20 percent compared to 2025, Qualcomm is looking to data centers to help boost its bottom line.
While it's not yet clear what kind of product the smartphone startup is cooking up, Nothing's CEO said the product is designed to leverage AI for productivity gains.
One of the basic problems of spending too much time on social media is that you are cooking your brain by reading posts from a pack of attention-seeking lunatics.
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
During its busiest week last quarter, Uber said only four people booked a ride using an AI agent.
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, the startup whose libraries already power the coding agent Codex. Combined with OpenAI's recently launched Git backend Pando, the deal shows the company is building out its infrastructure for developers and AI agents working side by side.
Nothing CEO Carl Pei said in a post on X that the company's launching its first AI device in December. That's just a little over a year after Pei announced plans for "AI-native" devices and an AI operating system.
Open source models are becoming more mainstream as enterprises, governments and startups alike rely on the promise of lower costs, more control, and more flexibility. But as increasingly capable models become more freely available, how do companies capture value? And with Chinese open models gaining ground, can American players keep up?
DuckDuckGo is courting schools frustrated by Google's AI restrictions, pointing educators to its search engine and options to disable AI features.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
AI agents won't be stealing Uber's lunch any time soon. Only four rides were arranged by third-party AI agents during the third quarter of 2026, Uber executives disclosed during an earnings call this morning.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spent election night defending his position on PC RAM purchases.
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In the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, AI ranked last among campaign issues: only 56 percent of respondents cited AI and data centers as an important factor. According to NBC exit polls, corruption (90 percent) and the cost of living (89 percent) clearly dominated, despite growing public attention to the issue.
Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent in the previous quarter.
People, including on this staff, keep asking me with varying degrees of excitement or trepidation when the AI bubble will burst.
The PC gaming mods repository Nexus Mods is making disclosures about AI mandatory for uploads of new mods, meaning that mod authors will have to declare "whether AI has been used in their work," the site announced today as part of a big post about AI-generated content on the platform.
The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less-efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Russia tries to fix exposed digital infrastructure as data center war backfires.
OpenAI's hardware team used GPT-6 Astra to design a device for the Codex coding agent in under a week, handling everything from the enclosure to the circuit board to the firmware. Several revision rounds were needed before production because the model didn't always account for manufacturing tolerances.
Jill Hazelbaker will join OpenAI as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, leading the company’s global communications and corporate positioning.
Cisco combines network intelligence with OpenAI models to strengthen enterprise security. Learn how it is building more adaptive defenses.
The five-year-old startup raised a $1.3 billion round led by Bessemer.
Palantir's U.S. commercial revenue surpassed U.S. government revenue for the first time ever.
Cybersecurity focused Ballistic Ventures is seeking to raise $360 million for a new flagship fund and another $130 million for a separate investment vehicle.
Google will offer schools AI tools that purportedly don't give away the answers.
The SETI Institute and Breakthrough Listen are now using AI agents at the Allen Telescope Array to control the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals. Tasks that used to take weeks can now wrap up in hours, and the team says the system detected a pulsar in the Crab Nebula in real time for the first time.
Many indie game developers have recently posted on social media about unexpectedly long approval wait times for their game submissions on Steam, with some of the approvals causing developers to miss their planned launch dates.
In many circles, "Ask Chat" has replaced "Google it," and that's reflected in a new announcement from OpenAI: the volume of search queries run through ChatGPT now equals 20 percent of the volume run through Google. Adam Fry, OpenAI's consumer product lead for ChatGPT, made the announcement at a press event on Monday.
At a moment when Anthropic's compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
OpenAI hires Dan Driscoll, the former civilian head of the US Army, as "Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization," likely to win government contracts and help shape AI rules for the military and intelligence agencies.
People hate data centers. They're loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today's polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about "compute campuses"? Those sound lovely, right?
Apple's latest earnings show how it's continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share. iPhone and Mac sales continued to grow strongly in the fourth quarter.
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election.