Tesla’s Own AI Trainers Doubt Full Self-Driving, Reuters Investigation Finds
The workers who teach Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system to read the road have a close view of what it can do. Reviewing hours of footage from the eight cameras on…
CNN Sues Perplexity, Widening News Industry’s Fight Over AI Search
CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity AI, accusing the AI search company of scraping and reproducing copyrighted news content at scale, according to the complaint. The suit is…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
Nvidia Deepens Taiwan Bet With $150 Billion Annual Pledge
The celebration in Taipei had the feel of a homecoming. Roughly 1,000 Nvidia employees gathered Wednesday at an event marking the launch of the company’s planned Taiwan headquarters, joined by…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
Dell’s AI Server Surge Lifts Shares Nearly 40%
Michael Dell spent the 1990s convincing corporate buyers that cheap, standardized servers could replace mainframes. The sequel to that story played out after the closing bell Thursday, when Dell Technologies…
Anthropic’s $65 Billion Raise Pushes It Past OpenAI in AI’s Valuation Race
The chipmakers who supply the memory inside artificial-intelligence data centers rarely write checks to software startups. This week, three of the world’s largest memory makers made an exception. Micron Technology,…
Microsoft Looks to Nvidia Silicon to Reboot Its Surface Line
The last time Microsoft put an Nvidia chip inside a Surface, the result was the Surface RT, a 2012 tablet that sold so poorly the company wrote off nearly $1…
Meta Cuts 1,400 Seattle Jobs as Zuckerberg’s Yacht Docks
The 387-foot yacht passed through Seattle’s Ballard Locks on Tuesday evening, and a crowd gathered along the walkway to watch. Some booed. One heckler shouted at the crew to pay…
Frontier AI Models Disagree on Most Fact-Checks
Ask five of the world’s most capable AI models whether a claim is true, and you will get different answers more often than not. A research paper published this month…
