OpenAI on Thursday rolled out its latest offering, a comprehensive data collection and analysis capability called “company knowledge”. And although vendors have been granted access to a wide range of enterprise data for decades — think of malware detection that reviews all messages and downloads — analysts and industry observers see this OpenAI effort as

Lightricks is upping the ante for rapid video creation and iteration with its latest artificial intelligence model. The company claims its newly released LTX-2 foundation model can generate new content faster than playback speed, plus it raises the bar in resolution and quality. The open-source LTX-2 can generate a stylised, high-definition, six-second video in just

Anthropic’s announcement this week that it will deploy up to one million Google Cloud TPUs in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars marks a significant recalibration in enterprise AI infrastructure strategy.  The expansion, expected to bring over a gigawatt of capacity online in 2026, represents one of the largest single commitments to specialised

OpenAI is surfacing company knowledge by connecting ChatGPT to enterprise data, turning it from a general assistant into a custom analyst. For business leaders, generative AI’s potential has always been limited by its lack of access to internal data. Even the best AI isn’t helpful if it can’t access the info needed to do a

OpenAI has acquired Software Applications Incorporated (SAI), perhaps best known for the core team that produced what became Shortcuts on Apple platforms. More recently, the team has been working on Sky, a context-aware AI interface layer on top of macOS. The financial terms of the acquisition have not been publicly disclosed. “AI progress isn’t only

You need to go up—way up—to fully appreciate the changes underway at the White House this week. Demolition crews starting tearing down the East Wing of the presidential mansion Tuesday to clear room for the construction of a new $300 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom, a recent priority of President Donald Trump. The teardown drew criticism and

Welcome to Edition 8.16 of the Rocket Report! The 10th anniversary of SpaceX’s first Falcon 9 rocket landing is coming up at the end of this year. We’re still waiting for a second company to bring back an orbital-class booster from space for a propulsive landing. Two companies, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and China’s LandSpace,

The Universe Browser makes some big promises to its potential users. Its online advertisements claim it’s the “fastest browser,” that people using it will “avoid privacy leaks” and that the software will help “keep you away from danger.” However, everything likely isn’t as it seems. The browser, which is linked to Chinese online gambling websites

In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led a disastrous military campaign into Moscow. The death toll was devastating: Out of some 615,000 men, only about 110,000 survivors returned. (Napoleon abandoned his army in early December to return home on a sled.) Roughly 100,000 of the casualties died in battle, while as many as 300,000 perished from a

There are three species of bats that eat birds. We know that because we have found feathers and other avian remains in their feces. What we didn’t know was how exactly they hunt birds, which are quite a bit heavier, faster, and stronger than the insects bats usually dine on. To find out, Elena Tena,