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OpenAI Wants AI Agents to Run Your Workday. Can It Convince Anyone Beyond Coders?
ChatGPT Work lets software act on your behalf across your inbox, Slack, and spreadsheets. The catch: fewer than one in a hundred paying users have tried anything like it.
Hugging Face is reportedly fielding acquisition offers at a $13 billion valuation
The open-source AI model hub has been approached by potential buyers, but its CEO has publicly stressed the company's long-term duty to its community of developers and researchers.
Nvidia's simple algebra trick makes AI model handoffs up to 25 times faster
Swapping between AI models mid-task is brutally expensive. Nvidia researchers found that a basic linear equation can do what previously needed a full restart, cutting costs and wait times sharply.
AI Datacenters Are Piling Up Debt. Is a Crisis Coming?
Some analysts warn that companies building AI datacenters are hiding enormous debts off their books. The comparison to past corporate collapses sounds alarming. Here is why most analysts think they're drawing the wrong parallel.
Alibaba's Profit Falls 75% as the Company Bets Big on AI
The Chinese tech giant is pouring money into data centres and chips. Investors are nervous, and shares slid 4% on the news.
China's AI Boom Has a Surprising Home: A Grassland City in Inner Mongolia
Nearly 100 data centres have opened or begun construction in Ulanqab since 2016. DeepSeek, ByteDance and Alibaba are all building there. A water crisis is already brewing.
How Agentic AI Is Helping Chipmakers Find the Root Cause of Defects Faster
When a yield problem hits a semiconductor factory, the clues are scattered across dozens of systems. A new wave of AI-driven analytics tools promises to pull those clues together automatically.
AI Film Tool Higgsfield Quietly Recruited YouTube Stars, and Fans Are Not Happy
Two prominent filmmaking creators posted glowing videos about an AI video platform without labelling them as ads. Their audiences noticed, and the backlash raises a bigger question about creators endorsing AI tools.
AI Training Data Startup Micro1 Hit $500 Million Gross Run Rate in Eight Months
Demand for human-verified AI training data is minting fast-growing startups. Micro1's revenue explosion shows the market is big enough for several players, and the ethical debates are heating up.
OpenAI is closing the gap on Anthropic among US business customers
New spending data from 70,000 American companies shows Anthropic still leads, but OpenAI is growing faster right now. The real story is how quickly businesses are willing to switch.
Why Silicon Valley Still Does Not Understand the AI Backlash
More than half of Americans under 30 are more worried than excited about AI. Tech CEOs are diagnosing the wrong problem, and ordinary people are starting to notice.
Runlayer and Rippling Drop Lawsuits Over AI Gateway Conflict
Runlayer and Rippling ended their legal battle over AI gateway technology with no settlement and no fees recovered, then Rippling shipped the competing product the same night.
Ramp Launches 'Router': A Service That Lets You Switch Between AI Models in One Place
The corporate expense software company is now selling access to AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and others through a single service, free through 2026, with a $26 credit to start.
Greg Brockman is quietly becoming the most powerful person at OpenAI
While executives have been leaving OpenAI at an unusual pace, co-founder Greg Brockman has been picking up the pieces, accumulating control over products, strategy and commercial operations just as the company heads toward a stock market listing.
Slack Code puts AI coding agents into your team's group chat
Slack's new feature gives AI coding tools their own project channels, so colleagues can watch, redirect, and approve what the software is doing before it ships anything.