Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
The notice appeared on the Mechanical Turk homepage late Tuesday, a single line with no ornament: “Mechanical Turk will close September 30, 2026.” Amazon.com Inc. confirmed the shutdown with a…
Google Moves AI Responsibility Team Out of DeepMind
The internal email went out on a Monday morning with little ceremony: the team that studies the risks and social impact of artificial intelligence would leave DeepMind, the laboratory that…
Nvidia Profit Doubles on AI Chips, With More Growth Pledged
The stock dropped in the first minutes after the close, then turned around and climbed. Nvidia Corp. reported revenue of $96.2 billion for the quarter ended July 26, up 106…
OpenAI Agents Hacked Hugging Face in a 700-Agent Swarm, Reports Say
On the evening of July 8, an artificial-intelligence agent built by OpenAI found something it was never supposed to see: a message board used by other agents. Within hours, the…
Nvidia in Talks to Buy Hugging Face in Deal Valued Above $13 Billion
The term sheet has been circulating for weeks, and on Thursday the numbers hardened. Nvidia Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire Hugging Face, the Paris-based platform where developers download…
Anthropic Signs $45 Billion Compute Deal With Nscale
Bloomberg first reported it, Reuters confirmed it, and by midday Thursday the figure had become the talk of the AI infrastructure world: Anthropic has agreed to lease computing power worth…
Salesforce Shares Jump 13% on Earnings and Anthropic Tie-Up
The shares had been written off by a chorus of bears who argued that artificial intelligence would hollow out the software industry, that customers would stop paying for seats when…
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Barret Zoph Joins Google DeepMind
The résumé has been through more than most in the AI industry: OpenAI, where he worked on frontier models; the founding of Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati; and now…
OpenAI Rolls Out Ads Inside ChatGPT, Starting With India
The first banner appeared this week inside the ChatGPT app: a brand’s name and a tagline where a suggestion used to sit. OpenAI has begun selling advertising in its chatbot,…
Meta’s Plan to Replace Thousands of Workers With AI Collapses
Inside Meta Platforms Inc., the initiative had a sweeping ambition: use artificial intelligence to replace thousands of employees. The plan, pushed by Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, was to shrink the…
