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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman toured the company’s Stargate data center in Saline, Michigan, and spoke about surging demand for AI compute, the future of work, and the risks of a global AI race. David Faber reports for CNBC in an exclusive interview conducted at the site. A $45 billion bet on AI demand The Stargate …
OpenAI and Anthropic appear to have crossed a critical threshold: their AI coding agents are generating substantial revenue, and both companies have quietly restructured their pricing to capture it. Simon Willison writes for his weblog that the two leading AI labs have found product-market fit, driven by a shift toward enterprise customers paying full API …
A model update to ChatGPT reshuffled nearly half of all source citations in German-language answers within 48 hours, behaving like a Google core update for generative AI. Johannes Beus reports for Sistrix that the switch from GPT-5 mini to GPT-5.5 on 23 May 2026 caused a 47 percent shift in which domains ChatGPT cited, based …
Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has defended his company’s AI-driven transformation of Search while acknowledging growing publisher concerns about vanishing web traffic. Nilay Patel posts for The Verge’s Decoder podcast an in-depth conversation with Pichai after Google’s annual I/O developer conference, covering everything from internal restructuring to the timeline for artificial general intelligence (AGI). …
A new generation of AI tools is reshaping how software is built and, according to their most devoted users, how work itself is done. Steven Levy reports for WIRED on the rapid rise of AI agents, tracing how two tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and the open-source project OpenClaw — have ignited what many in …
A new Gallup survey shows that opposition to data centers in the United States has reached a striking level. Seven out of ten Americans now oppose having a data center built near their home. Nearly half of those respondents say they strongly oppose such projects. Tim Craig reports for The Washington Post that more Americans …
AI data centers consume roughly 0.04 percent of all freshwater used in the United States each year. That figure, including both water used inside data centers and water used by power plants to generate their electricity, comes from Andy Masley, writing for his own publication. He argues that fears about AI draining water supplies are …
Pope Leo XIV has released his first encyclical, calling for strict international regulation of artificial intelligence and warning that the technology risks concentrating power in the hands of a few, spreading disinformation, and fueling armed conflict. The 83-page document, titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), was presented at the Vatican today and is addressed to the …
ElevenLabs, the AI voice company valued at $11 billion, is entering the audiobook streaming market in direct competition with Spotify and Audible. Ashley Carman reports for Bloomberg that the startup has licensed 200,000 human-voiced audiobooks from publishers including HarperCollins, Blackstone Publishing, and Vinci Books. The titles will be available through ElevenReader, the company’s existing app …
Artificial intelligence is changing what jobs exist, what they require, and what they pay. New roles are emerging at AI companies and across industries, while researchers and economists debate how fast and how deeply automation will affect employment overall. Business Insider has identified several new or resurgent job categories driven by AI adoption. At the …