Business / Artificial Intelligence

Kara Swisher is the epitome of a multi-hyphenate: a podcast host, journalist, author, and CEO agitator.Swisher has also, in her way, turned IDGAF into her personal brand. Deeply sourced and happy to ask the hard questions, she doesn’t care…

The thing that gets me, and I'm really curious about your take on this, Brian, as someone with children, that the guides these people that were brought in, they were actually in the room with students helping them with any technological…

OpenAI has signed a multi-year deal with Amazon to buy $38 billion worth of AWS cloud infrastructure to train its models and serve its users.The deal is yet another sign of the AI industry becoming increasingly entangled, with OpenAI now at…

On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia. Musk first announced the project in late September on his social media…

One day last fall, Kristine Barrios’ 9-year-old daughter got stuck on a lesson in IXL, the personalized learning software that served as her math teacher. She had to multiply three three-digit numbers without using a calculator. Then she…

At a secret US military base located about 50 miles from the Mexican border—exact location: classified—the defense contractor Anduril is testing a remarkable new use for a large language model. I attended one of the first demonstrations…

Lauren Goode: Well, they're all interested in growing more. Who among us, Mike? But the hyperscalers refers to this class of major tech companies or cloud service providers. So Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, they're all in that…

A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing returns compared to smaller models. By mapping scaling laws against continued improvements in model efficiency, the…

Ever since DeepSeek burst onto the scene in January, momentum has grown around open source Chinese artificial intelligence models. Some researchers are pushing for an even more open approach to building AI that allows model-making to be…

At OpenAI’s developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the “family of devices” the pair are currently working to develop.“As great as phones and computers are,…