Chinese AI is no longer being treated as a distant second-place story. New models from companies like Moonshot AI are forcing Silicon Valley to ask whether the U.S. lead in frontier AI is as durable as many assumed. The latest anxiety centers on Moonshot AI’s Kimi model family, which has drawn attention for strong benchmark … Read more
The next frontier for AI may not be another chatbot. It may be a model that can understand bodies, rooms, objects, tools, and movement well enough to act in the physical world. That is why physical AI is becoming a bigger topic for robotics labs, autonomous vehicle companies, and AI infrastructure teams. The new question … Read more
Satya Nadella is warning companies about a risk that is easy to miss in the rush to adopt AI: the more useful a model becomes, the more business knowledge a company may have to expose to make it useful. The Microsoft CEO has framed the issue as a kind of “reverse information paradox.” Companies pay … Read more
Open-source AI agents are getting harder for investors to ignore. Nous Research, the company behind the Hermes AI agent, is reportedly finalizing a new funding round that would value the startup at about $1.5 billion. The round is said to be led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other investors, and the … Read more
Tesla’s robotaxi story has a simple problem: the rollout is getting bigger on paper, but the usage signal is not moving in the same direction. New reporting on Tesla’s second-quarter robotaxi figures says paid robotaxi miles fell by about 36% from the previous quarter, even as the service expanded into more cities. That is not … Read more
AI is no longer just changing product roadmaps. It is also becoming a regular part of how major tech companies explain job cuts, reorganizations, and new hiring priorities. The latest example is Monday.com, which has been added to a growing list of technology companies that have cited AI while announcing layoffs or major workforce changes. … Read more
AI tools are being added to phones, search engines, email apps, writing tools, and workplace software so quickly that some users are now looking for help turning them off. That demand is showing up in an unexpected place: public libraries. Library workshops focused on “Avoiding AI” are drawing strong interest from people who feel that … Read more
AI data centers are becoming large enough to affect the power grid when something goes wrong. A recent incident in Northern Virginia showed why that matters: after a power line failed, more than 3 gigawatts of data-center load reportedly dropped from the grid in a short period, helping create a voltage spike that took several … Read more
Team chat is becoming one of the next battlegrounds for AI agents. Buzz, a new open-source group chat app connected to Jack Dorsey’s Block, is built around a simple idea: people and AI agents should be able to work in the same channels instead of jumping between chat, code, tickets, and separate AI tools. That … Read more
AI companion apps are moving into one of the most sensitive areas of everyday life: loneliness among older adults. A new trial involving the Comfort Companions app shows how chatbots could help people who are waiting for human befriending support, while also raising practical questions about safety, privacy, and emotional dependence. The app offers several … Read more