Databricks just snatched up another AI company. This week, the data analytics giant announced a $1 billion acquisition of Neon, a startup building an open source alternative to AWS Aurora...Read More
OpenAI announced on Friday it’s launching a research preview of Codex, the company’s most capable AI coding agent yet. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of the company’s o3...Read More
6:42 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in...Read More
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out a big vision for the future of ChatGPT at an AI event hosted by VC firm Sequoia earlier this month. When asked by one...Read More
On Thursday, Windsurf, a startup that develops popular AI tools for software engineers, announced the launch of its first family of AI software engineering models, or SWE-1 for short. The...Read More
The morning after Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter (now X), reporters encountered two men with boxes outside the company’s headquarters. One introduced himself as recently laid-off Twitter engineer “Rahul...Read More
In Brief Posted: 1:05 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 Image Credits:Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg / Getty Images Coders were hit hardest among Microsoft’s 2,000-person layoff in its home state of Washington,...Read More
Image Credits:Carol Yepes / Getty Images 12:37 PM PDT · May 15, 2025 A lawyer representing Anthropic admitted to using an erroneous citation created by the company’s Claude AI chatbot...Read More
Chips are a critical component of the AI industry. But new chips don’t hit the market with the same speed as new AI models and products do. Cognichip has a...Read More
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI and accessibility features to Android and Chrome. Most notably, TalkBack, Android’s screen reader, now lets you ask Gemini about what’s...Read More
