Zero Shot, a new venture capital fund with deep ties to OpenAI, is aiming to raise $100 million for its first fund. It has already written some checks.

Google's new offline-first dictation app uses Gemma AI models to take on the apps like Wispr Flow.

Top 50+ Large Language Models (LLMs) in 2026    Exploding Topics

OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.

Learn how to use Spotify, Canva, Figma, Expedia, and other apps directly in ChatGPT.

It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The gig workers who are training humanoid robots at home  When Zeus, a medical student in Nigeria, returns to his apartment f…

In the early days of large language models (LLMs), we grew accustomed to massive 10x jumps in reasoning and coding capability with every new model iteration. Today, those jumps have flattened into incremental gains. The exception is domain-specialized intelligence, where true ste…

For decades, artificial intelligence has been evaluated through the question of whether machines outperform humans. From chess to advanced math, from coding to essay writing, the performance of AI models and applications is tested against that of individual humans completing task…

The Vogue Business AI Tracker    Vogue

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The company is also announcing a deal with L3Harris to build the sensors for Xoople's spacecraft.

SpaceX Valuation at $2 Trillion: How It Surpasses Meta and Tesla?    TradingKey

The Largest Companies by Market Cap in April 2026    fool.com

AI skeptics aren’t the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models’ outputs — that’s what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service.

As AI expands its role all over our companies, a big question comes up: What will AI Agents do to HR and all our human capital practices? One could imagine the HR department “going away” or being replaced by agents, and managers interacting with this AI Agent Cloud for hiring, pa…

This week Gloat, a pioneer in skills intelligence and talent marketplace, launched a bold entry into the world of AI Agents for HR. It’s an interesting move, demonstrating how competition for core HR technology has emerged. Simply explained, Gloat is offering a toolset (Glo…

Iran said it will target U.S.-linked data centers with new missile strikes, as the war between the U.S. and Iran escalates.

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Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Within Silicon Valley’s orbit, an AI-fueled jobs apocalypse is spoken about as a given. The mood is so grim that a societal impacts researcher…

The misuse of large language models (LLMs) requires precise detection of synthetic text. Existing works mainly follow binary or ternary classification settings, which can only distinguish pure human/LLM text or collaborative text at best. T… | Yang Li, Qiang Sheng, Zhengjia Wang

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work?  In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and Ope…

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

U.S. Tech Legislative & Regulatory Update – First Quarter 2026    Inside Global Tech

The BR Privacy, Security & AI Download: April 2026    The National Law Review