Madison Mills

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday that he has "never advocated" for a ban on open-weight AI models, rejecting accusations that his lab is seeking to shield its closed-model business from compe...

The Trump administration this week staked out a new position that could reshape its approach to AI policy, accusing Chinese companies of stealing U.S. technology even as it defends open AI developm...

Poor morale among employees is contributing to delayed model releases from Google's DeepMind AI lab, according to conversations with half a dozen current and former Google DeepMind employees.Why it...

China's latest AI breakthrough is forcing Silicon Valley to confront a terrifying possibility: Building the world's smartest models may no longer be enough to win.Why it matters: Chinese labs like ...

Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI stunned developers on Thursday with a massive new model that may rival the best American systems at a fraction of the cost.Why it matters: Kimi K3's early performance...

Anthropic has warned that its own technology could bring the end of civilization. Check out its latest job listings to understand how.Why it matters: Anthropic has 32 very scary job openings for ro...

Fidji Simo is stepping down after taking medical leave because of a worsening chronic illness.The big picture: Simo's departure removes one of OpenAI's highest-profile executives.Driving the news: ...

Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.Why it matters: The new model is being pitche...

Ornn, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup, raised a $33 million seed round to build a marketplace for trading the computing power that underpins today's AI boom, similar to what exists for oil tr...

OpenAI may give the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, per the Financial Times. The proposal is in very preliminary conversations, according to a person familiar with the matter.Why it matt...

Anthropic's Fable 5 model came back online for users on Wednesday, after the Trump administration lifted an export control late Tuesday.Why it matters: It's the most powerful publicly available AI ...

The pro-AI movement is splintering over a defining question: whether national security concerns outweigh the need to keep America's AI companies ahead of Chinese rivals. Why it matters: The fight i...

SpaceX shares rose 11% in initial trades Friday, placing the company in the top 10 largest companies in the U.S.Why it matters: The $150 price indicates a $1.97 trillion market cap, putting it imme...

Anthropic filed paperwork to go public just as corporate America is entering its AI sticker shock phase.Why it matters: Companies are Anthropic's biggest customers. If they dial down their AI spend...

Alphabet said Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in equity to help fund its AI ambitions, which includes a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway via a private deal. Why it matters:...

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI lab at $965 billion post-money, in one of the largest private funding rounds in tech history.Why it matters: With the round,...

Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns.Why it matters: Companies that rushed to embrace AI are now confronting ballooning IT costs, ...

AI's most powerful CEOs are splitting into warring camps over whether their own technology will gut white-collar work or supercharge it — but the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.Why it ...

Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.Why it matters: The hire is a major co...

The biggest tech trial of the AI era — which ended anticlimactically Monday on procedural grounds — revealed a sector consumed by the same power struggles and profit motives its leaders once warned...

If AI were a candidate for political office, it would be losing in a landslide.Why it matters: The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as ...