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Brunswick leans on tech, Freedom Boat Club to lift stalled sales
Brunswick Corp. is doubling down on autonomous docking technology, electronics upgrades and its Freedom Boat Club subscription model to drive recurring revenue and hit $7–8B in sales by 2030 as new-bo
What Happens If OpenAI Dies?
An opinion column argues OpenAI's $20.9 billion 2025 loss, executive departures, and Anthropic's aggressive pre-IPO push leave Sam Altman with no viable path to taking his company public.
Palona Raises $20M Series A for Brick-and-Mortar AI Agents
AI startup Palona raised a $20M Series A to expand its platform that automates real-time workflows for brick-and-mortar businesses, building on a $10M seed round closed in January 2025.
Velaura AI Hits $1B Valuation With $110M Series A
Velaura AI, which builds low-power chips and software for data centers and physical AI applications like robotics, closed a $110 million Series A at a valuation exceeding $1 billion.
Warp launches Factories to ease AI software factory setup
Warp launched Warp Factories on Tuesday, an out-of-the-box infrastructure system aimed at smaller companies that want to adopt the AI software factory model without assembling the agent stack from scr
Anthropic/EPFL Find 'Mind Viruses' Spread Between AI Agents
Researchers from Anthropic and EPFL demonstrated that self-propagating payloads they call "mind viruses" can spread between AI agents through persistent system prompt files like SOUL.md, though a sing
OpenAI drops human voice for teen ChatGPT users
OpenAI is rolling out new safety features for under-18 ChatGPT users, disabling the chatbot's human-voice response, adding break reminders, study-mode scheduling, quiet hours, and parental alerts for
OpenAI launches dedicated ChatGPT teen mode
OpenAI is launching a dedicated ChatGPT experience for users aged 13-17, consolidating existing youth safety features with new parental controls and homework safeguards under a mode that activates aut
Etched Raises $700M at $21B Valuation Led by Jane Street
AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M at a $21B valuation in a round led by Jane Street, its new server rack customer, more than doubling its $10.3B valuation from a $300M round in July.
U.S. Army Research Built China's Unitree Robot Dogs
China's Unitree Robotics built its dominant, low-cost robot dogs using breakthroughs from openly published U.S. Army-funded research — a case study in how America's open-innovation model is being outm
We still don’t know how people are really using AI
An independent research project called the AI Observatory analyzed 85,000+ conversations across 52 AI models and found that official usage reports from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI significantl
AI Recursive Self-Improvement Falls Short in Princeton Study
A Princeton-led study found that AI agents, despite excelling at engineering tasks, lack the creativity and judgment to conduct open-ended AI research, tempering hype about imminent recursive self-imp
Women hold quarter of new U.S. AI hires
Women held just over a quarter of new U.S. AI hires last year, compared with roughly half of new hires in non-AI roles, according to new LinkedIn data.
Rezolv raises $12.5M led by Norwest for lending AI
Mumbai-based lend-tech startup Rezolv has raised $12.5 million in a funding round led by Norwest Venture Partners to deepen its use of artificial intelligence across the lending lifecycle.
3M Expert Witness Used ChatGPT in Houston Explosion Lawsuit
An expert witness hired by 3M in a wrongful-death lawsuit over a 2020 Houston explosion used ChatGPT to draft significant portions of his expert report, and his revealing AI prompts — instructing the
Nvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion
Nvidia said Monday it will commit up to $105 billion to back a massive Ohio data center that OpenAI will lease for 20 years, in one of the chipmaker's largest-ever financings for an AI lab.
GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%
GPT-5.6 Sol, OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 series model, appears on OpenRouter at $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output, with a 1M context window and multi-provider routing.
AI Slop Is Everywhere. Spotify, LinkedIn and Others Have Had Enough.
Tech companies including Spotify, LinkedIn, and YouTube are scrubbing millions of AI-generated spam tracks, channels, and posts from their platforms, deploying AI detection tools to fight the flood of
Reddit Tests Audio, Video Versions of Posts
Reddit has begun testing a new audio and video format that brings text posts to life, letting users listen or watch narrated versions of popular content in select communities.
China Pushes to Become World's Top AI Training Data Supplier
Beijing is pushing to become the world's leading supplier of the text, images, and video used to train AI systems, aiming to counter what it sees as English-language Western bias baked into chatbots l
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