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Sen. Bernie Sanders thinks he's tricked Claude into revealing the AI industry's secrets, but he really just exposed how agreeable chatbots can become.
Ever watch a TV ad and wonder, "How did this get approved?" Today, Google has not one but two new ad spots for its six-month-old Pixel 10 phones, and… let's just say they may not come across as intended. First, there's "With 100x Zoom," an ad that appears to suggest that if a vacation rental company lies to you about the view from your hotel room, you should lie to all your friends and family, too! Take a watch below: The YouTube description makes Google's intent fairly clear: "So even if t...
On a Monday episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a hot-button statement: "I think we've achieved AGI." AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a vaguely defined term that has incited a lot of discussion by tech CEOs, tech workers, and the general public in recent years, as it typically denotes AI that's equal to or surpasses human intelligence. In recent months, tech leaders have tried to distance themselves from the term and create their own terminology that t...
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Lovable's founder said the fast-growing vibe-coding startup is looking for startups and teams to join its company.
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Apple will host its next Worldwide Developers Conference the week of June 8. The company is expected to announce major updates to Siri with advanced AI capabilities.
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This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on…
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Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.
Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.
In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DoD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simply have terminated its contract with the AI lab.
Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is stepping down as board chair of Helion. His departure comes as reports that the two companies are negotiating a deal that would see Helion sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.
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Today, I’m talking with Shishir Mehrotra, who is CEO of Superhuman — that’s the company formerly known as Grammarly, which is still its flagship product. Shishir also used to be the chief product officer at YouTube, and he’s on the board of directors at Spotify. He’s a fascinating guy, and we actually scheduled this interview a month or so ago, thinking we’d talk about AI and what it’s doing to software, platforms, and creativity pretty broadly. Verge subscribers, don’t forget you get exc...
Halter, the AgriTech startup behind AI-powered cattle collars, reaches a $2 billion valuation in a round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, proving AI's reach extends far beyond Silicon Valley.
Hachette Book Group has pulled the publication of horror novel 'Shy Girl' after concerns emerged that artificial intelligence may have been used to generate the text.
As AI tools become essential to software development, companies are beginning to offer AI compute credits as part of compensation packages, potentially reshaping how engineers are paid.
Despite a packed GTC conference showcasing new AI technologies, Wall Street remains unconvinced, with investors questioning whether AI's explosive growth can justify current valuations.
An exclusive look inside Amazon's chip lab reveals how Trainium is becoming the silicon of choice for AI's biggest players, following Amazon's $50 billion OpenAI investment.
The popular AI code editor Cursor has confirmed its latest coding model is built on top of Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI's Kimi, raising questions about US-China AI dependencies.
Elon Musk has unveiled plans for a massive AI chip manufacturing facility dubbed 'Terafab,' representing a $25 billion bet on vertical integration across his companies.
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In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI researchers gathered in stocking feet at Mox, a scrappy, shoes-free coworking space in San Francisco. Yellow and red canopies billowed overhead, Persian rugs blanketed the floor, and mosaic lamps glowed beside potted plants. In the common area, a wildlife advocate spoke passionately to a crowd lounging in…
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