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…
xAI’s $6 Billion Raise: Musk’s AI Lab Valued at $40 Billion
Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence company has a new price tag. xAI said it closed a $6 billion Series C round that values the firm at $40 billion, with Fidelity and Valor…
Gemini 2.0 Moves Into the Office: Google Rebuilds Workspace Around AI
The meeting ended, and the notes were already written. Google this week announced that Gemini 2.0 is now fully integrated into Workspace, adding automatic meeting summaries, smart replies across Gmail…
Anthropic Nears a $30 Billion Raise, Closing In on OpenAI’s Valuation
For the first time, corporate spending on Claude has edged past spending on ChatGPT, according to data that investors have been passing around this month. Ramp’s April AI Index, a…
TSMC’s Bonus Math: Record Profit, Restless Workers
The complaints spilled across employee forums this week in a tone TSMC rarely hears from its own people: anger. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world’s largest contract chipmaker, posted record…
OpenAI’s GPT-5 Learns to Watch Video in Real Time
The demo that got engineers talking wasn’t a chatbot answering a question. It was a live camera feed. OpenAI this week launched GPT-5, its latest flagship model, and the headline…
ChatGPT’s New Party Trick: Filling Out Your Forms
The demo began with a gym membership form. A user photographed it, spoke the details aloud — name, address, a fitness goal written as a joke — and ChatGPT filled…
Tesla’s Robots Take a Turn on the Assembly Line
The task was unglamorous: carry a part, seat a screw, route a wiring harness. The setting was not. For the first time, Tesla has put its Optimus humanoid robots to…
