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.
Microsoft Healthcare Microsoft Unveils Dragon Copilot, an AI Assistant for Clinicians By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025
Telecom Perplexity T-Mobile Bets on AI with New Smartphone, Powered by Perplexity By Chris McKay • Mar 3, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Fintech Unique Raises $30M to Expand Its AI Agents for Financial Services By Chris McKay • Feb 27, 2025
Startups Inception Labs Launches Mercury, the First Commercial Diffusion-Based Language Model By Chris McKay • Feb 26, 2025
Amazon Alexa Amazon Unveils Alexa+: A Smarter, More Conversational AI Assistant By Chris McKay • Feb 26, 2025
OpenAI ChatGPT's Deep Research Now Available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise Users By Chris McKay • Feb 25, 2025
Media & Entertainment Dow Jones Expands AI Marketplace to Nearly 5,000 Publishers By Chris McKay • Feb 25, 2025
Google Gemini Google’s Gemini Code Assist Is Now Free—With the Most Generous Usage Limits Yet By Chris McKay • Feb 25, 2025
Apple AI Infrastructure Apple to Invest $500 Billion in the U.S., Create 20,000 AI and R&D Jobs By Chris McKay • Feb 24, 2025
OpenAI Research Education AI Literacy AI in Higher Ed: 7 Major Takeaways from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Student Usage Report By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Together AI Raises $305M to Expand Its AI Acceleration Cloud By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Figure Robotics Meet Helix: The AI Behind Figure’s Humanoid Robots That Reason Like Humans By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI’s Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing, Now Serving 400 Million Users By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Healthcare OpenEvidence Raises $75M to Scale AI for Doctors, Hits $1B Valuation By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Microsoft Media & Entertainment Research Microsoft’s Muse AI Model Can Generate Video Game Environments in Real-Time By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Google Research Google Unveils AI Co-Scientist to Accelerate Scientific Discovery By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
NVIDIA Research Biotech & Health NVIDIA and Arc Institute Introduce Evo 2, A State of the Art Foundation Model for Biology By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
Microsoft Quantum Computing Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1: A Breakthrough Chip in Quantum Computing By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025
