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.
Google AI Policy Google Pushes for Pro-Innovation AI Policy in Response to Trump Administration's Action Plan By Chris McKay • Mar 13, 2025
OpenAI AI Policy OpenAI Pushes for ‘Freedom to Innovate’ in U.S. AI Action Plan By Chris McKay • Mar 13, 2025
Google Gemini Robotics Google DeepMind Unveils Gemini Robotics Models to Bridge AI and Physical World By Chris McKay • Mar 12, 2025
Google Open Source Google DeepMind’s Gemma 3 Brings Multimodal AI, 128K Context Window, and More By Chris McKay • Mar 12, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Cartesia Raises $64M to Advance Real-Time Voice AI with Sonic 2.0 By Chris McKay • Mar 11, 2025
OpenAI AI Infrastructure OpenAI Bets Big on CoreWeave in a Five-Year, $11.9B Cloud Deal By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025
Open Source SambaNova and CrewAI Launch Open-Source Deep Research Framework for Faster, Cheaper AI-Powered Insights By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025
Google Gemini Gmail’s New AI-Powered ‘Add to Calendar’ Button Saves You Time By Chris McKay • Mar 10, 2025
Palantir Military & Defense Palantir Delivers First AI-Powered TITAN Systems to U.S. Army By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Google Gemini Enterprise AI Google Adds Gemini AI Assistant to Calendar for Workspace Users By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Google Gemini Google Introduces Gemini Embedding, Its Most Advanced Text Embedding Model Yet By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Manus China Manus, a New AI Agent From China is Going Viral—And Raising Big Questions By Chris McKay • Mar 7, 2025
Mistral Mistral Unveils New OCR API With Advanced Document Understanding Capabilities By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025
Alibaba China Alibaba's Latest AI Model, QwQ-32B, Beats Larger Rivals in Math and Reasoning By Chris McKay • Mar 6, 2025
OpenAI ChatGPT GPT-4.5 Arrives for ChatGPT Plus Subscribers—Here’s What to Expect By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
AI Policy Geopolitics Mutual Assured AI Malfunction: A New Cold War Strategy for AI Superpowers By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Google Google Introduces “AI Mode” in Search, Expanding AI Overviews with Gemini 2.0 By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Amazon Media & Entertainment Amazon’s Prime Video Begins AI Dubbing Pilot for Select Movies and Shows By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Ceramic.ai Emerges from Stealth with $12M to Accelerate AI Model Training By Chris McKay • Mar 5, 2025
