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Why are U.S. AI companies so sure bigger is always better?

Super-scaled-up AI models may one day lead to superintelligence, but they could be risky business today as cheaper, simpler models accelerate.

09.07.2026 3

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How Trump’s Anthropic whiplash has helped China

The Commerce Department reversed restrictions on Anthropic’s most powerful models. The bigger problem is that U.S. AI policy still lacks a clear...

02.07.2026 8

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Quantum computing is about to get a lot more real

A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity.

02.07.2026 10

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A Berkeley AI professor makes a provocative argument for decelerating AI research

In her essay, Emma Pierson says she’d rather take her chances with cancer than race toward a future of AI overreliance.

25.06.2026 6

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Trump keeps kneecapping the U.S.’s most promising AI models

A sudden 90-minute ultimatum from the Trump administration last week led to Anthropic shutting off access to the world’s most powerful models.

18.06.2026 9

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Rajiv Dattani is bringing insurance to the AI agent boom

Dattani’s company, AIUC, is creating insurance standards for agent providers, giving enterprises a new way to assess risk and trust.

18.06.2026 9

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Chelsea Finn wants robots to get better at learning

The Stanford professor’s work gives autonomous systems new frameworks for tackling complex tasks.

18.06.2026 10

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Kari Briski is making sure Nvidia can handle the agentic AI boom

Briski’s work helps Nvidia’s technology stack process the flood of tokens powering tomorrow’s AI agents.

18.06.2026 10

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How Trump officials pushed Anthropic to shut down the world’s most powerful AI models

A warning from Amazon, an urgent White House pressure campaign, and a sweeping Commerce Department order forced Anthropic to disable its newest Claude...

15.06.2026 10

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Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 plays it too safe on safety, developers say

Developers are complaining on social media that Claude Fable 5’s safety system is blocking benign prompts, from résumé edits to shopping lists.

11.06.2026 10

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Why AI labs are betting big on AI coding

Leading companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google aren’t just chasing immediate enterprise software revenue; they see AI-generated code as the...

11.06.2026 10

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Anthropic releases a version of its vaunted Mythos model to developers

This version of Mythos excels at long, complex tasks, but passes on questions about risky things like cybersecurity or biology.

09.06.2026 10

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Why Meta’s new AI agents could make sense for small businesses

The agents may also help explain why the social media giant is spending billions to quickly develop frontier AI models.

04.06.2026 10

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Anthropic’s IPO march began with a Claude Code breakthrough

Claude Opus 4.5 turned Claude Code into a must-have tool for developers, giving Anthropic a powerful opening inside large enterprises.

02.06.2026 30

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AI’s reality check has finally arrived

From data center backlash and new state regulations to shaky ROI and failed enterprise tools, the industry is entering a more skeptical phase.

01.06.2026 10

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SpaceX’s $1.75 trillion IPO pitch relies on a lot of AI faith

The rocket launching company says it’ll become a major player in enterprise AI in the future.

28.05.2026 10

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Pope Leo XIV’s AI encyclical is getting a mixed reception from the tech world

The Vatican’s “Magnifica Humanitas” warns about the concentration of AI power among tech elites and argues that machines can never replace human...

26.05.2026 10

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Google DeepMind’s Tulsee Doshi says AI’s next phase depends on user trust

The search giant seems to be integrating new DeepMind models at all levels of the company and its products.

21.05.2026 10

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Google’s AI strategy is finally coming into focus

The search giant no longer just ‘organizes the world’s information.’ With Gemini, it wants AI to reason over that information and increasingly...

19.05.2026 20

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Small businesses should be a much bigger part of the ‘AI transformation’ conversation

Surveys show adoption is rising fast, but most small business owners are still scratching the surface of what AI can do for them.

14.05.2026 20

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Anthropic courts mom-and-pop shops with Claude for Small Business

The product launches with 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows, 15 reusable AI skills, and connectors to platforms including QuickBooks, Canva, Google...

13.05.2026 10

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You can put a data center at your house—but who really pays?

The idea of asking homeowners to host boxes full of GPUs is a symptom of the woeful dearth of data center space needed for AI computing.

10.05.2026 40

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Grok’s usage is so low that Elon Musk can sell compute to Anthropic

Anthropic says it’ll use all the AI compute capacity from SpaceX’s ‘Colossus 1’ data facility in Memphis.

07.05.2026 10

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How a Texas vegan cheese-maker used Claude and Manus to fight back against a big shipping company

Rebel Cheese built and used AI tools to claw back thousands of dollars in overcharges from a large shipping carrier.

06.05.2026 20

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OpenAI’s trillion-dollar AI bet is a study in ‘riskmaxxing’

The AI giant is betting its future on a rapid increase in demand for frontier AI models in the coming years.

05.05.2026 20

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The AI industry’s massive bet on transformer models may not be enough for true AGI

As Big Tech pours unprecedented resources into scaling large language models, critics argue that transformer-based systems face fundamental...

30.04.2026 10

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The hidden logic behind AI CEOs’ job loss warnings

Dire warnings from AI leaders may sound like transparency, but they also reinforce the investor and corporate narrative driving the race to build an...

29.04.2026 20

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Why Manus has become a crucial prize in the global AI race

Beijing’s move to halt Meta’s Manus acquisition sharpens the U.S.-China AI rivalry and signals a tougher push for sovereign control over advanced...

27.04.2026 20

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AI startups are inflating a key revenue metric to win VC attention, says this founder

Founders are blurring ARR with future contract revenue to boost headline numbers, according to Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson.

24.04.2026 20

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, a more powerful engine for coding, science, and general work

The company is positioning its newest system as its strongest agentic coding model yet, as it faces pressure to keep pace with its rival Anthropic.

23.04.2026 20

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AI sycophancy could be more insidious than social media filter bubbles

Chatbots often care more about making human users feel good than they do about giving the unvarnished truth.

23.04.2026 20

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The one thing Apple’s new CEO needs to get right on AI

Newly named CEO John Ternus is positioned to double down on Apple’s real advantage: tightly integrated, on-device intelligence.

22.04.2026 40

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Lovable left AI prompts and user data exposed, one researcher found

A bug allowed access to chat histories, source code, and customer data in public projects. The vibe-coding platform says the issue has been fixed.

21.04.2026 20

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What San Francisco’s AI billboards say about the state of the industry

A survey of the city’s ads shows an ecosystem selling real products with real swagger, while sidestepping safety, job loss, and anyone outside the...

17.04.2026 20

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AI anxiety is turning volatile

After a Molotov attack on Sam Altman’s home and threats against OpenAI, a fringe but intensifying strain of AI fear is spilling into the real world.

16.04.2026 30

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Is Mythos a blessing or a curse for cybersecurity? It depends on whom you ask

Industry experts weigh in on Anthropic’s Claude Mythos—a powerful new AI model that can uncover long-hidden bugs and turn them into exploits—and...

11.04.2026 50

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Did Anthropic just soft-launch the scariest AI model yet?

The company’s Claude Mythos Preview model is remarkably good at harming or hijacking other systems. Anthropic’s first application of the model is...

09.04.2026 30

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Anthropic will use its biggest, baddest AI model to protect against cyberattacks

The company says it found strong cyberdefense skills in its forthcoming ‘Mythos’ model, which it will lend to the industry research effort.

07.04.2026 30

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Y Combinator’s CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood

After Garry Tan touted his agentic coding output, a developer found inefficiencies, code bloat, and rookie mistakes lurking in production.

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OpenAI’s gigantic new funding round renews fears about the company’s profitability and cash burn

The stakes of Big AI’s bet that it will transform business and personal life seem to be growing by leaps and bounds.

02.04.2026 20

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Apple at 50: The tech giant’s best, worst, and weirdest ideas

Over five decades, Apple has built some of the most influential tech ever made—and some genuinely strange flops. These are the highs, lows, and...

31.03.2026 50

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4 AI chatbots tried to fact-check Rubio on Iran. They couldn’t agree

A simple question about Trump’s Iran war goals produced four different answers from Grok, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT.

31.03.2026 50

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A top AI researcher explains the limitations of current models

François Chollet talks about his deceptively simple new benchmark test for AI models.

26.03.2026 30

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This new benchmark could expose AI’s biggest weakness

ARC-AGI-3 tests whether models can reason through novel problems, not just recall patterns, a task even top systems still struggle to do.

25.03.2026 30

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The most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2026

From big names such as Google and Anthropic to specialists like Abridge, World Labs, and Mithril, these companies are proving that AI’s ability to...

24.03.2026 20

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2026

Why Sierra, Cursor, Coactive, Lovable, and ServiceNow are among Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2026.

24.03.2026 60

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How Trump’s AI plan to override state laws could undercut key safeguards

Georgetown analyst Mina Narayanan says the White House framework mixes broadly popular ideas with sweeping preemption that could block state-level AI...

23.03.2026 20

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Aaron Levie on what enterprise AI adoption actually looks like

The Box CEO says the shift to agents is real, but governance and cost may slow the spread of adoption.

20.03.2026 70

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Don’t get too used to ‘subsidized’ chatbot costs

The AI industry will likely follow the ‘growth at all costs’ model used by Uber and others, and then hike up prices.

19.03.2026 20

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Investors bet $1 billion on AI pioneer Yann LeCun’s vision for the future of AI

LeCun has argued that language models alone will not produce AI capable of tackling the world’s biggest problems.

12.03.2026 20

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