Latest on generative AI, model launches, enterprise rollouts, and AI policy shifts worldwide.
$5.6 million. That is what it reportedly cost to train a trillion-parameter AI model capable of competing with GPT-5 and Claude Opus. The claim comes from DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup that has turned efficiency into a geopolitical weapon. Read more »
A 14-year-old boy had his last conversation with an AI chatbot, then took his own life. The chatbot remained online, still accepting new users. Read more »
$122 billion — that is the size of the check the world just wrote to a company that has never traded on a public exchange. On March 31, 2026, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, pushing its valuation to $852 billion. Read more »
A pair of hands scrubbing a plate. Arms folding a bedsheet. Fingers sorting laundry. Read more »
Four hundred fifty-six meters. That is how far a Mars drive planned entirely by artificial intelligence carried NASA’s Perseverance rover across the rocky rim of Jezero Crater in December 2025. For 28 years, every waypoint a Mars rover followed had been handpicked by human planners on Earth — until Anthropic’s Claude drew the route instead. Read more »
One quadrillion. That is how many digital interactions HUMAN Security analyzed across the internet in 2025. The cybersecurity firm’s 2026 State of AI Bot Traffic report delivered a verdict that reshapes how we think about the web: automated traffic now grows eight times faster than human activity. Read more »
One hundred thousand lawyers across sixty countries in three years. That is the footprint Harvey has built since its founding in 2022. On March 25, 2026, the legal AI startup closed a $200 million Series C at an $11 billion valuation. Read more »
Eighteen months — that’s the window Microsoft’s AI chief put between now and a world where most white-collar AI automation is technically feasible. And when Anthropic’s CEO offered a nearly identical warning from the other side of the industry, the two predictions together stopped looking like competitive hype and started looking like a shared read on where the labor market is heading. Read more »
One billion dollars. That is what Apple is paying its biggest rival to fix the AI assistant it built. On January 12, 2026, Apple and Google jointly announced a multi-year AI collaboration — Apple Foundation Models will be built on top of Gemini going forward, marking a structural shift in how Siri is powered. Read more »
$1.03 billion. Twelve employees. No product. Four months old. Those four facts describe AMI Labs — Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs — and the company that just closed Europe’s largest seed round in history. The money came from Nvidia, Toyota, Samsung, Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, and a dozen others who collectively decided that the Turing Award winner behind them is right about something everyone else is getting wrong. Read more »