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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.

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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 4

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Anthropic’s Pentagon showdown is drawing Silicon Valley into a larger fight

Top researchers and major tech companies are lining up behind Anthropic after the Defense Department blacklisted the firm, turning a contract dispute...

11.03.2026 3

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OpenAI’s delayed ‘adult mode’ underscores the challenges of age-gating AI

A lot is riding on OpenAI’s ability to separate older ChatGPT users from younger ones.

11.03.2026 3

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New York lawmakers want AI chatbots to stop pretending to be doctors or lawyers

A proposed bill would ban professional advice from AI, and allow users to sue if they’re harmed.

06.03.2026 4

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OpenAI’s Pentagon deal once again calls Sam Altman’s credibility into question

Altman was supportive of Anthropic in its contract dispute with the Pentagon, but all the while he was positioning his company to supplant its...

05.03.2026 5

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Anthropic’s Pentagon fight boosts Claude to No. 1 on app stores

After refusing to let its AI be used for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, Anthropic has seen a surge in app downloads and paid subscriptions.

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Inside OpenAI’s fast-growing Codex: The people building the AI that codes alongside you

OpenAI leaders reveal how the company’s rapidly growing coding agent works, why developers are delegating tasks to it, and what that means for the...

27.02.2026 10

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Anthropic’s autonomous weapons stance could prove out of step with modern war

The Pentagon is demanding that the AI company remove the safety guardrails from its AI models to allow all lawful uses.

26.02.2026 10

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IBM stock falls after Anthropic says AI can now modernize old software

IBM still profits from mainframes running decades-old COBOL systems. Anthropic says AI can migrate that software elsewhere.

24.02.2026 10

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AI’s biggest problem isn’t intelligence. It’s implementation

Culture, workflows, and human habits may set the real pace of the AI economy.

19.02.2026 6

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These 6 quotes from OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger hint at the future of personal computing

The Austrian developer created a massively successful AI agent platform, which he has agreed to sell to OpenAI.

18.02.2026 10

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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

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Developers are still weighing the pros and cons of AI coding agents

13.02.2026 3

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We’re entering the era of ‘AI unless proven otherwise’

12.02.2026 4

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OpenAI’s GPT-5.3-Codex thinks deeper and wider about coding work

07.02.2026 10

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Anthropic’s new Claude Opus 4.6 aims to think through bigger codebases

06.02.2026 10

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Anthropic takes aim at chatbot ads—with its own Super Bowl ad

05.02.2026 4

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Tracking Jeffrey Epstein’s influence on the cutting edge of tech research

04.02.2026 8

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AI face swapping video could be a bonanza for scammers

29.01.2026 3

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Big Tech CEOs’ tortured statements on ICE in Minnesota show an industry captured by Trump

29.01.2026 8

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How Apple’s late AI adoption could transform from a weakness to a strength

26.01.2026 10

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A Q&A with Amanda Askell, the lead author of Anthropic’s new ‘constitution’ for AIs

22.01.2026 10

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ChatGPT put a weird idea into our heads about how AI should look and act

15.01.2026 8

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Why Anthropic’s new ‘Cowork’ could be the first really useful general-purpose AI agent

14.01.2026 10

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OpenAI enters the connected health space with ChatGPT Health

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Yann LeCun: Meta ‘fudged a little bit’ when benchmark-testing Llama 4 model

06.01.2026 40

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AI’s most important benchmark in 2026? Trust

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Altman: Once upon a time, Google could have dominated OpenAI

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Yes, the Trump administration is likely to buy more equity in more private companies in 2026

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Is ‘artificial general intelligence’ an illusion? Yann LeCun thinks so

18.12.2025 4

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OpenAI is clapping back at Google’s Gemini 3 with a new GPT-5.2

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After Nvidia’s White House ‘coup,’ China may not be buying

11.12.2025 7

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Nvidia’s Washington charm offensive has paid off big

10.12.2025 10

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Is CoreWeave the AI boom’s canary in a coal mine? 

10.12.2025 10

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ICE location app developer sues government, not Apple, for app store removal

09.12.2025 8

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Everyone wants to eat Nvidia’s lunch

05.12.2025 10

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OpenAI must adapt to a world where it’s no longer invincible 

05.12.2025 8

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Nvidia’s AI healthcare vision spans new drugs, robots, and beyond

04.12.2025 20

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Nvidia’s Kimberly Powell is applying AI to expedite drug discovery

04.12.2025 20

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Apple’s AI chief paid the price for the company’s stalled progress

03.12.2025 8

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Inside the Trump administration’s dicey play to block states from regulating AI

26.11.2025 8

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With new Opus 4.5 model, Anthropic’s Claude could remain the best AI coding tool

25.11.2025 7

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Why did Apple kill ICE tracking apps? Activists are determined to find out 

22.11.2025 10

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Google’s Gemini 3 Pro: Better than mid

21.11.2025 5

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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang isn’t feeling the ‘AI bubble’

20.11.2025 8

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Gemini 3 may be the moment Google pulls away in the AI arms race

19.11.2025 10

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What AI pioneer Yann LeCun will likely build after departing Meta

13.11.2025 9

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Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs unveils its world-generating AI model

12.11.2025 10

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Why did SoftBank sell off its Nvidia stake?

12.11.2025 9

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