AI Industry

Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year ...

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AI & Tech

Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One

Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow....

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AI & Tech

Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Surprise! Fusion startup Zap Energy says it will be developing fission reactors alongside its fusion devices....

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AI & Culture

Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse

“I believe the technology was deployed too quickly in too vast amounts, with hundreds of vehicles, when it wasn’t really...

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AI & Culture

Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their per...

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AI Industry

The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall

Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: t...

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AI & Culture

Female Looksmaxxer Alorah Ziva Is Suing Clavicular for Alleged Battery

Aleksandra Mendoza, aka Alorah Ziva, alleges that the 20-year-old influencer injected her with drugs on a livestream and...

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AI Industry

IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system

Bringing AI agents into the enterprise software development lifecycle is fast becoming the norm. As developers experimen...

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AI & Tech

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months af...

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AI Industry

AWS Quick's personal knowledge graph is making orchestration decisions most control planes can't see

Enterprise AI teams running centralized orchestration stacks now have a new variable to account for: AWS Quick, which ex...

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AI & Culture

Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed

With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model op...

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AI & Tech

Google Photos uses AI to make the iconic closet from ‘Clueless’ a reality

Google recreates Cher's closet from "Clueless" with AI....

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AI & Tech

More Gemini features are coming to Google TV

Google TV just got more Gemini features, including the ability to transform photos and videos with tools Nano Banana and...

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AI & Tech

Bill Gurley, Jack Altman back startup Pursuit, which helps companies sell to government

On Wednesday, Pursuit announced a $22 million seed round led by Mike Rosengarten, the co-founder of OpenGov with out big...

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AI & Culture

Motorola’s New Razr Folding Phones Command a Higher Price With Few Upgrades

Say hello (Moto) to price hikes on all three of Motorola’s latest Razr flip phones....

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AI & Tech

Roku’s $3 streaming service, Howdy, reaches 1M subs, per recent report

Roku’s $2.99 streaming service Howdy has topped 1M subscribers, showing demand for cheaper, low-commitment alternatives ...

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AI Industry

FOMO is why enterprises pay for GPUs they don't use — and why prices keep climbing

Enterprises can't fix their GPU waste problem because the fix makes the problem worse. Releasing idle capacity woul...

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AI & Tech

Uber is in the hotel business now, thanks in part to AI

Uber announced several new features on Wednesday during its annual event, which push far beyond the company's original r...

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AI & Culture

How Trump Weaponized the DOJ Division That Kept Elections Fair

The Trump administration has effectively forced out more than two dozen experienced lawyers from the DOJ's Voting Sectio...

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AI & Tech

How one venture firm is investing in an increasingly fragmented world

Geopolitical turmoil has made venture investing challenging, leading Kompas VC to carve out a niche in startups focused ...

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AI & Tech

At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -...

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AI Industry

How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute

Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often force...

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AI & Culture

OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins

“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolu...

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AI Industry

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art propri...

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