Uber Burns Through Its AI Budget in Four Months
Uber Technologies set an artificial intelligence budget for 2026 that was supposed to last the year. It lasted four months. Andrew Macdonald, the company’s president, said publicly that Uber exhausted…
UMG, TikTok Renew Pact With New AI Music Rules
Last year, a wave of AI-generated covers, pop hits sung by voices that no longer needed singers, sent the music industry scrambling. Labels watched recordings they did not authorize circulate…
7-Eleven Data Breach Exposes 185,000 Records
The most personal numbers a company can hold, names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers, were taken in a data breach at 7-Eleven, according to a report by TechCrunch.…
An AI Found a macOS Kernel Flaw. Apple Just Patched It.
The bug report arrived from an unusual place: a chatbot. Apple’s security advisory says Claude, the AI assistant built by Anthropic, discovered a kernel-level vulnerability in macOS during autonomous testing,…
Anthropic Nears a $900 Billion Valuation, Topping OpenAI
Dario Amodei has spent five years telling investors that Anthropic would eventually be worth more than the company he left. This month, that claim is on the verge of coming…
OpenAI Seeks Researchers to Study AI That Builds AI, for Up to $445,000
The job posting asks for people willing to think about problems that do not exist yet. OpenAI is hiring safety researchers for its Preparedness team, the group charged with studying…
AMD Starts Making Its First 2-Nanometer Server Chip
The wafers are moving through the fab now, and each one represents a bet that AMD’s engineers have been working toward for years. Advanced Micro Devices said this week that…
OpenClaw Builders Warn AI Code Is Quietly Rotting the Software Stack
The warning comes from an unlikely source: two engineers who helped build one of the most popular AI coding tools in the world. In interviews published this week, they said…
Global AI Usage Rises for a Fifth Week, Led by Chinese Models
The counter on OpenRouter’s dashboard keeps climbing. The service, which routes traffic from developers to hundreds of AI models, recorded 28.9 trillion tokens of usage in the week ending May…
GPT-5’s Wider Net: OpenAI Opens Flagship Model to Free Users
The shift arrived over the weekend without a banner. Users of ChatGPT’s free tier opened the app and found a model they had never been given before: GPT-5, OpenAI’s flagship…
