AI Policy NY Lawmakers Pass Landmark Bill Targeting Frontier AI Risks By Chris McKay • Jun 13, 2025 A first-of-its-kind New York bill would make OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic publish safety playbooks and report incidents—or face fines up to $30 million.
Meta Scale Meta Bets $14.3 Billion on Scale AI—and Its CEO—to Lead New Superintelligence Lab By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025 Meta has acquired a 49% stake in data-labeling startup Scale AI for $14.3 billion, bringing CEO Alexandr Wang on board to lead a new "superintelligence" lab as the company scrambles to catch up in the AI race.
OpenAI Barbie Could Get an AI Upgrade Thanks to Mattel's New OpenAI Partnership By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025 Mattel is teaming with OpenAI to design AI-powered toys, games, and digital assistants, with the first product due later this year.
Google Google's AI Can Now Predict Hurricane Paths 15 Days Out — and the Hurricane Center Is Using It By Chris McKay • Jun 12, 2025 The tech giant's Weather Lab marks the first time the National Hurricane Center will use experimental AI predictions in its official forecasting workflow
OpenAI Op-ed Sam Altman says the Singularity is Here, and it's Disappointingly Boring By Chris McKay • Jun 11, 2025 Sam Altman argues we're already past the point of no return toward superintelligence, but the transition feels surprisingly normal because exponential change appears gradual when you're living through it.
Meta Meta AI Hits 1 Billion Users— Now Comes the Tricky Monetization Part By Chris McKay • May 28, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Synthesia Co-Founder Raises $13M to Build the "Holy Grail" of AI: Interactive 3D Worlds from Text By Chris McKay • May 27, 2025
Meta Llama Meta Splits AI Division to Speed Up Product Rollouts Amid Talent Exodus By Chris McKay • May 26, 2025
Anthropic Anthropic's Claude 4 Is Here—and It's Breaking New Ground (and Safety Protocols) By Chris McKay • May 22, 2025
Google Media & Entertainment Google Announces Veo 3, Imagen 4, and Next-Gen AI Media Tools By Chris McKay • May 20, 2025
Google Gemini Google's Flow turns AI Video Generation into a Full-fledged Filmmaking Tool By Chris McKay • May 20, 2025
Enterprise AI Glean Unveils Scalable AI Agent Platform for the Enterprise By Chris McKay • May 20, 2025
Healthcare Microsoft’s Healthcare Agent Orchestrator Hopes to Enable Personalized Cancer Care for Everyone By Chris McKay • May 19, 2025
AI Policy AI Ethics Trump Signs Bipartisan Law Criminalizing Deepfakes and Revenge Porn By Chris McKay • May 19, 2025
Microsoft Enterprise AI Microsoft's New Low-Code Tool Lets You Fine-Tune Copilot with Your Company Data By Chris McKay • May 19, 2025
NVIDIA Robotics NVIDIA's New AI Tools Could Dramatically Accelerate Humanoid Robot Development By Chris McKay • May 19, 2025
NVIDIA AI Infrastructure NVIDIA Opens Its NVLink Ecosystem to Rivals in Bid to Further Cement AI Dominance By Chris McKay • May 19, 2025
Google Research Google's DeepMind Unveils AlphaEvolve, an AI System that Designs and Optimizes Algorithms By Chris McKay • May 14, 2025
