AI News

Everyone spent this week cheering the same story. AI agents are here, they keep getting cheaper, and adoption is about to explode. But look at where the smart money actually…

AI News Digest, July 9: Cheaper Models Are Quietly Rewriting Your AI Budget One number should stop every founder and HR leader this week. Chinese open-weight models now handle between…

AI News Deep Dive, July 8: When Your Hiring Algorithm Becomes a Legal Liability A single federal case has turned AI hiring discrimination liability from a compliance footnote into a…

AI News Digest, July 7: Open-Weight AI Just Pulled In $800 Million Open weight model funding just had its loudest week of the year. A cloud built for open-source models…

AI News Digest, July 6: The AI Job Cuts Surge Just Set a Record The AI job cuts surge is no longer a talking point. It is now the single…

Editor's Note Two threads ran through this week's AI news, and they pull in opposite directions. On one side, money. Video intelligence funding just hit a new high. Korea lined…

Two years ago, "AI welfare research" sounded like a punchline. This week it reads like a job posting. The Washington Post reported that Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta each hired…

Everyone spent this week cheering the money. A neocloud doubled its valuation to $8.3 billion in 16 months. Blackstone lined up $30 billion for data centers. Microsoft dropped $2.5 billion…

Three stories this week point at the same gap. The money and the mandate for agentic AI are arriving faster than the readiness to use it. India's tech services AI…

Here is the number that matters this week. The price of running a near-frontier AI model just fell. It is now $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million…

AI News Digest, June 30: The $206 Billion Bet on Agents That Still Flunk the Job Here is the tension this week. AI agent software spending is about to jump…

India foundation model funding just crossed a line that matters. A homegrown lab raised a war chest big enough to train a frontier model. And most of the money came…

Editor's Note This week, AI tools kept showing up in places people assumed were off-limits. A studio known for hand-made cinema took money to build AI filmmaking tools. India scrambled…

The AI money moved in two directions this week, and the gap tells you something. On one side, private inference compute funding hit a record, as a single platform raised…

The Workforce Data Cutting Against the AI Job Panic All week the headlines read like a countdown to mass unemployment. One enterprise software giant confirmed 21,000 job cuts and pinned…

AI News Deep Dive, June 24: AI Job Cut Disclosures Go on the Record For three years, executives blamed layoffs on "macro headwinds" and "efficiency." This week the language changed.…

Governments and AI labs spent the week trying to agree on rules nobody is legally bound to follow. At the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, heads of state shared a…

Every chart this week pointed up. SHRM told a room of 20,000 HR pros in Orlando that 92% of CHROs want deeper AI. Investors handed $60 billion to a single…

Microsoft just turned an experiment into a billing line item. On June 16 it moved Copilot Cowork, its agent for long-running, multi-tool work, to worldwide general availability after a three-month…

One funding round can tell you where a market is heading. This week, India produced its newest homegrown AI unicorn. The timing is not a coincidence. In the same week,…