The AI boom has created a record-breaking wave of new billionaires and high company valuations in the past year at a rate unprecedented in history, according to CNBC. CB Insights reports there are now 498 AI “unicorns” (private companies worth at least $1 billion) with a combined value of $2.7 trillion — and 100 of

For years now, big tech and its financial backers have been blowing past the warning signs that human-level AI — the theoretical technology with hundreds of billions of dollars riding on it — could turn out to be a pipe-dream, at best. Now, however, Wall Street appears to be yanking its money out of one

The new CEO of Character.AI — the controversial AI chatbot startup currently fighting a high-profile child welfare lawsuit over the suicide of a 14-year-old user — says the company has abandoned its founding mission of realizing artificial general intelligence, or AGI. In an interview with Wired, recently crowned Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand declared that the company “gave

In news that should alarm parents everywhere, Reuters just came out with a blockbuster report revealing that Meta’s internal policies allowed underage children to have “conversations that are romantic or sensual” with the company’s AI chatbots. After Reuters asked Meta about the shocking revelation, which was discovered in a 200-page internal document, the social media

Geoffrey Hinton, the pioneering mind behind AI industry-transforming neural networks, who’s often referred to as a “godfather of AI,” says we need to infuse AI with “maternal instincts” to save humanity from rogue AI. Though his work on neural networks helped to usher in the large language models (LLMs) that dominate Silicon Valley today, these days,

The launch of OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5 model last week marked an ignominious chapter for the company. While it boasted modest performance upgrades on paper, the actual experience of using it left many fans sorely disappointed.  Common criticisms were that its answers were too short and its writing was noticeably worse and devoid of personality. On

We’re all probably feeling a little anxious about AI. It’s horrible for the environment, is used as an excuse to fire workers, floods the internet with misinformation and slop, entrenches government surveillance, and appears to be driving people into psychosis.  And so, at a time when many college students are dropping out to join AI

DeepSeek’s plan to train its new AI model, R2, on Huawei’s Ascend chips has failed and forced a retreat to Nvidia while delaying launch. For months, the narrative pushed by Beijing has been one of unstoppable technological progress and a march towards self-sufficiency. However, reality has a habit of biting back. The recent troubles of

For the first time, Autodesk is offering free access to professional grade AI-powered VFX and animation tools — removing cost barriers for indie filmmakers, digital content creators, marketers, and first-time users around the world Today at SIGGRAPH 2025, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) launched new, more affordable pricing for Autodesk Flow Studio (formerly Wonder Studio) including its first free tier and a

The SkyWork AI Technology Release Week officially kicked off on August 11. From August 11 to August 15, SkyWork releases one new model each day for five consecutive days, covering cutting-edge models for core multimodal AI scenarios. Skywork has already launched the SkyReels-A3, Matrix-Game 2.0, and Matrix-3D models. On August 13, the Skywork UniPic 2.0 model was officially open-sourced.