ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced Friday, putting the AI chatbot within striking distance of 1 billion. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers.
“Subscriber momentum accelerated…

ChatGPT has reached 900 million weekly active users, OpenAI announced Friday, putting the AI chatbot within striking distance of 1 billion. OpenAI also shared that it now has 50 million paying subscribers.
“Subscriber momentum accelerated…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei isn’t sure whether his latest Claude chatbot is conscious. This probably shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. After all, last month Anthropic wheeled out a revised version of Claude’s Constitution, basically a…

Customizing Large Language Models (LLMs) currently presents a significant engineering trade-off between the flexibility of In-Context Learning (ICL) and the efficiency of Context Distillation (CD) or Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)….

The Pentagon is playing chicken with Anthropic over who gets to control how the military uses AI while communities across the country are blocking data center construction. As the AI debate has been flattened to…

Suno co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman shared on LinkedIn that the AI music generator has amassed 2 million paid subscribers and $300 million in annual recurring revenue.
Just three months ago, Suno announced a $250 million funding round that…

Starting this week, Perplexity subscribers will have a new agentic tool at their disposal.
Perplexity Computer, in the company’s words, “unifies every current AI capability into a single system.” More specifically, Perplexity says it is…

Anthropic has reached a stalemate with the United States Department of War over the military’s request for unrestricted access to the AI company’s technology. But as the Pentagon’s Friday afternoon deadline for Anthropic’s compliance…

Before last week the name Alap Shah didn’t ring a bell for many people. The 45-year-old financial analyst and tech entrepreneur had spent the past two decades working in relative obscurity. Then last weekend he coauthored a blog with the…

I believe that 2026 will be a defining year for cybersecurity.
Sometime during the year, AI-powered threats will have the ability to adapt in real time. This will force organizations to defend against them – and they will need to do it fast.

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