AI tools promise to lighten workloads, but new research reveals they often have the opposite effect. Workers using generative AI are taking on more tasks, working longer hours, and experiencing increased cognitive strain. Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye report for Harvard Business Review on their eight-month study at a U.S. technology company with 200 …
Amazon has officially launched Alexa Plus, its generative AI-powered digital assistant, to all Prime members in the United States. The service is now accessible through any Alexa-enabled device, the Alexa mobile app, and Alexa.com. Jennifer Pattison Tuohy reports for The Verge that the assistant has been in Early Access since March 2025 and reached tens …
Anthropic has emerged as a formidable competitor in the artificial intelligence industry by focusing on enterprise customers and positioning itself as the most safety-conscious AI company. The approach appears to be paying off both commercially and in investor confidence, even as critics question whether the company can maintain its principles while racing to capture market …
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.3-Codex, a coding model that the company describes as its most capable agentic coding tool to date. The model runs 25% faster than its predecessor and combines advanced coding performance with reasoning capabilities in a single system. According to OpenAI, GPT-5.3-Codex marks a significant milestone as the first model that helped create …
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model that can handle longer conversations and coordinate multiple AI agents working simultaneously on complex tasks. The company claims the model outperforms competitors including OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 on several professional benchmarks. The release introduces a one-million-token context window for the first time in …
OpenAI has introduced Frontier, a platform designed to help businesses build, deploy, and manage AI agents across their organizations. The company positions the platform as a solution to the growing challenge of coordinating multiple AI agents that currently operate in isolated systems. According to OpenAI, Frontier connects siloed data sources and applications to provide AI …
Google’s AI chatbot Gemini has reached 750 million monthly active users, marking significant growth in the competitive AI assistant market. The milestone was announced during Alphabet’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings report. Lauren Forristal reports for TechCrunch that this represents a jump of 100 million users from the previous quarter, when Gemini had 650 million monthly active …
Mistral AI has released Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models designed for both batch processing and real-time transcription. The company positions the technology as more accurate and significantly cheaper than competing services while enabling on-device processing for sensitive data. The release includes two models. Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 handles pre-recorded audio files at …
Major news publishers are restricting the Internet Archive’s access to their content, worried that AI companies might use the nonprofit’s digital library as a backdoor to scrape their articles for training data. Andrew Deck reports for Nieman Lab that outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times have taken steps to limit how the …
OpenAI is holding informal discussions with Wall Street banks about a potential initial public offering, positioning itself in a race against rival Anthropic to become the first major generative AI company to tap public markets. The ChatGPT maker has expanded its finance team with key hires including chief accounting officer Ajmere Dale and corporate business …