The Intern
OpenAI plans an "autonomous AI research intern" by September and 8,000 employees by December. One announcement is about automating research. The other is about hiring salespeople. The lab that started as a research nonprofit is becoming a sales organization that automates research.
CEO of Halide-maker Lux Optics, Ben Sandofsky, sues his co-founder Sebastiaan de With, now on Apple's design team, alleging improper use of funds and stolen IP
Last summer, Apple held talks to acquire Lux Optics, a tiny startup that makes Halide, one of the most popular and critically acclaimed camera apps in the App Store.
Inside Palantir's recent developer conference, where it doubled down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage as its commercial business soars
As business soars, Palantir is doubling down on a vision of AI built for battlefield advantage—and attracting customers who agree.
Sources: OpenAI aims to grow to about 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, from ~4,500 today, as it seeks to stop Anthropic's momentum with business customers
OpenAI plans to almost double its headcount by the end of the year as it accelerates a push to sell to businesses and gain ground …
A US jury finds Elon Musk intentionally misled Twitter shareholders by disparaging the company in 2022 to buy it for a lower price than his original $44B bid
Elon Musk defrauded Twitter Inc. investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform …
Super Micro says co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw has resigned from its board after US prosecutors indicted him on allegations of smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
Super Micro Computer said Friday that Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw, a co-founder, has resigned from the server maker's board …
Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real
The beautiful Army blonde Jessica Foster has posed with an F-22 Raptor fighter jet, donned camouflage in the desert and walked …
Leaked DOD letter: Pentagon will adopt Palantir's Maven AI system as an official program of record to streamline its adoption across all arms of the US military
Palantir's (PLTR.O) Maven artificial intelligence system will become an official program of record, Deputy Secretary …
A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using
An engineer at OpenAI processed 210 billion “tokens” — enough text to fill Wikipedia 33 times — through the company's artificial intelligence models …
Sources: advertisers that bought ChatGPT's first ad campaigns say the process was low tech and that they haven't received much data showing if their ads worked
As OpenAI prepares to open up ad sales to more marketers next month, it is trying to address what some advertisers say was lacking in the initial ad sales offering.
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom
One of the most popular ways to view the Epstein Files, an interface called Jmail that mimics a Gmail inbox, is hosted on Guillermo Rauch's $9.3 billion unicorn Vercel.
Universal recipes for startup success are impossible: once good ideas are widely adopted, founders converge on the same moves, erasing any competitive moats
A review of Polymarket's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts, as the betting market presents itself as “News 2.0”
A review of the betting market's social media feeds found it has published hundreds of false and misleading posts.
A look at China's rapidly expanding robotics sector, which now has roughly 140 companies hoping to build humanoids, fueled by massive state-backed investments
How close are we to the sci-fi vision of autonomous humanoid robots? I visited 11 companies in five Chinese cities to find out
Super Micro names VP DeAnna Luna as acting chief compliance officer, after SMCI closed down 33% on March 20 amid a chip smuggling scandal
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Nvidia Chief Software Architect Jonathan Ross discusses the $20B Nvidia-Groq deal; sources say Groq's annual revenue was near $100M at the time of the deal
Filing: Anthropic says it cannot manipulate Claude once the military has deployed it, denying DOD accusations that Anthropic could tamper with models during war
The Department of Defense alleges the AI developer could manipulate models in the middle of war. Company executives argue that's impossible.
Interviews with over three dozen people detail how lobbyist Mike Davis used his ties to Trump to push the DOJ to approve deals, including HPE's Juniper deal
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing Altman of sexual abuse from 1997 to 2006, as the claims expired in 2008, but says she can refile
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Sam Altman's sister accusing the billionaire OpenAI chief executive of sexually abusing …
The FBI and CISA warn hackers tied to Russian intelligence services are targeting users of messaging apps such as Signal with phishing attacks
It echoes earlier alerts from the Netherlands and Germany, and is the latest to warn about targeting of Signal users and others. — Learn more.
The US Department of Energy announces a partnership with SoftBank and its affiliate SB Energy to develop a 10 GW data center with its own power supply in Ohio
The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday announced a public-private partnership to develop a major data center with its own power supply …
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a 2024 FTC order barring Intuit from advertising TurboTax products as “free” when many taxpayers are ineligible
Microsoft acknowledges complaints about Windows 11, promising a reduction of “unnecessary” Copilot integrations, more control over updates, and more
ZDNET's key takeaways — Microsoft finally acknowledged complaints about Windows 11. — The company is promising sweeping changes to a slew of features.
US prosecutors charge three people affiliated with Super Micro, including co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw, with smuggling Nvidia AI chips to China
Can This AI Stock Survive in 2026?Bill Gertz /Washington Times:U.S. indicts three in plot to illegally sell advanced computer tech to ChinaIan Carlos Campbell /Engadget:Three people have been charged ...
Moonshot says Kimi K2.5 is “the foundation” of Cursor's Composer 2 model; Cursor says it “should have mentioned” Composer 2 started from the base of Kimi K2.5
Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high...
Anthropic launches Claude Code channels, which let users interact with a Claude Code session through Telegram and Discord
Anthropic released Claude Code Channels, a research-preview feature that lets developers send messages to a running Claude Code session from Telegram and Discord.
The White House releases an AI policy framework, explicitly calling on Congress to preempt state AI laws, create age-gating requirements for AI models, and more
The framework explicitly calls on Congress to preempt any state laws that regulate the way models are developed or that penalize companies …
Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024
Jensen Huang proposes a compensation model where engineers receive an AI token budget on top of their base salary, to deploy agents as productivity multipliers
The perks of working in Silicon Valley have long included high salaries. Now, some engineers may be offered a new incentive: artificial intelligence tokens.
Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready calls on governments to ban social media for users under 16, says social platforms gave “insufficient forethought” about consequences
When Pinterest removed social features for teens and made every account under 16 private—meaning no discoverability …
A judge issues an order requiring Kalshi to temporarily halt sports and election contracts in Nevada, the first US state to force Kalshi to cease operations
WordPress.com says it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers' websites, as well as manage comments, update metadata, and more
OpenAI plans “an autonomous AI research intern” by September and says its “North Star” is to build a fully automated multi-agent research system by 2028
A US DOJ operation disrupted four botnets that infected 3M+ devices and includes the Aisuru and Kimwolf botnets used in a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack in November 2025
A new anonymous Substack alleges AI compliance startup Delve “faked” compliance for startups by generating pre-populated audit reports and fabricating evidence
Google is running a “small” experiment replacing news headlines in search results with AI-generated ones, after adding the feature in Google Discover in January
We're seeing Verge headlines rewritten by Google AI. … Since roughly the turn of the millennium, Google Search has been the bedrock of the web.