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Forget basketball. Next week’s Nvidia GTC is the real March Madness for AI

As Jensen Huang prepares to take the stage, Nvidia is signaling its ambitions across the entire AI stack—from chips and infrastructure to models and...

12.03.2026 2

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OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons amid Pentagon contract

A senior OpenAI robotics leader says she left over concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons as the company expands its work with the...

07.03.2026 30

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The Anthropic–OpenAI feud and their Pentagon dispute expose a deeper problem with AI safety

The clash between the two leading AI labs shows how the safety of powerful AI systems may depend less on rules than on the competition and...

05.03.2026 3

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Why Leopold Aschenbrenner’s AI hedge fund is betting big on power companies and bitcoin miners to fuel the ‘superintelligence’ race

New filings show how the former OpenAI researcher is translating his AGI thesis into billions of dollars of bets on electricity, AI infrastructure,...

05.03.2026 20

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Iran has the intent—and increasingly the tools—for AI-powered cyberattacks

While there’s no public evidence Iran can deploy fully autonomous cyber agents, AI may already be accelerating familiar attacks against critical...

02.03.2026 10

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Sam Altman tells staff at an all-hands that OpenAI is negotiating a deal with the Pentagon, after Trump orders the end of Anthropic contracts

The negotiations come as rival Anthropic is locked in a more contentious standoff with U.S. defense officials.

28.02.2026 10

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After months of quiet, Perplexity’s CEO steps into the OpenClaw moment

After months of silence, Aravind Srinivas explains what Perplexity has been building—and why now

26.02.2026 10

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With markets jittery after weeks of tech selloffs, Nvidia’s earnings are the next big test for AI sentiment

As tech stocks slide and AI spending comes under scrutiny, investors are looking to Nvidia’s results for clues about whether the AI boom still has...

25.02.2026 6

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AI agents that do your work while you sleep sound great. The reality is far messier—‘it’s like a toddler that needs to be overseen’

Early adopters using tools like OpenClaw and Claude Code say always-on AI is improving—but experts say they are still far from totally hands-off.

23.02.2026 1

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Exclusive: Anthropic rolls out AI tool that can hunt software bugs on its own—including the most dangerous ones humans miss

The system builds on research showing AI can uncover serious software flaws across vast amounts of code, at a time when both hackers and defenders are...

20.02.2026 10

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AI is running out of power. Space won’t be an escape hatch for decades

The physics mostly work. The timelines, economics, and infrastructure don’t—at least not yet.

19.02.2026 10

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Elon Musk is pushing to build data centers in space. But they won’t solve AI’s power problems anytime soon

Proponents say orbital data centers could solve AI’s power and cooling crunch. Experts say that vision is far more distant than the hype suggests.

19.02.2026 10

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What OpenAI’s OpenClaw hire says about the future of AI agents

The OpenClaw deal shows the AI race shifting from smarter models to the systems—and developers—behind them.

17.02.2026 10

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OpenClaw is the bad boy of AI agents. Here’s why security experts say you should beware

The open-source AI agent pushes autonomy to the edge — thrilling hobbyists and unnerving security experts

12.02.2026 10

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OpenAI vs. Anthropic Super Bowl ad clash signals we’ve entered AI’s trash talk era—and the race to own AI agents is only getting hotter

From Super Bowl ads to social media sniping, the rivalry has spilled beyond benchmarks into a fight over brand, trust, and who AI agent marketshare

09.02.2026 6

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OpenAI’s new model leaps ahead in coding capabilities—but raises unprecedented cybersecurity risks

Why OpenAI’s latest coding breakthrough is forcing the company to rethink how—and how fast—it can deploy its most powerful models

06.02.2026 7

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Hey Alexa—Amazon may be teaming up with OpenAI. Here’s why that matters

Amazon had been using a mix of its own models and those from OpenAI rival Anthropic to power Alexa . Will a pivot to OpenAI's tech finally deliver an...

05.02.2026 5

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OpenAI announces Frontier, an AI agent platform for enterprises to power apps like Salesforce and Workday—but could it eventually replace them?

OpenAI’s new enterprise platform lets companies build and manage agents that sit on top of existing software, blurring the line between partner and...

05.02.2026 10

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Meta’s Hyperion AI data center will sprawl to four times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park

Meta’s latest 1,400-acre land deal in Louisiana signals plans for a vast, multi-phase AI campus unlike anything the U.S. has seen.

05.02.2026 6

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Exclusive: Anthropic announces partnerships with Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as it bets AI can make science more efficient

Rather than use AI to achieve scientific breakthroughs, Anthropic is betting AI agents can make the routine work of science more efficient.

02.02.2026 5

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AI has made hacking cheap. That changes everything for business

As AI agents become cheap, tireless attackers, the old assumptions behind corporate cybersecurity are breaking down.

29.01.2026 4

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Meta beats on Q4 revenue as Mark Zuckerberg predicts a ‘major AI acceleration’ in 2026—with up to $135 billion in capex spending to match

Zuckerberg says Meta is playing catch-up in AI. His answer: a “major acceleration” in 2026 powered by an enormous new spending commitment.

29.01.2026 7

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A Meta deal just turned this 175-year-old company into a linchpin of the AI data center boom

As hyperscalers race to wire ever larger AI clusters, Corning is emerging as one of the most critical—and overlooked—suppliers in the stack.

28.01.2026 20

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Cursor used a swarm of AI agents powered by OpenAI to build and run a web browser for a week—with no human help. Here’s why developers are buzzing

Cursor’s experiment shows how AI is shifting from answering prompts to running real projects—hinting at a future where machines don’t just help,...

24.01.2026 20

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NeurIPS, one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims

An analysis of NeurIPS 2025 papers by startup GPTZero reveals how AI-generated citations are slipping into elite academic research.

21.01.2026 9

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ChatGPT tests ads as a new era of AI begins

Ads are coming to the bottom of ChatGPT’s answers for certain users—as the $500 billion startup looks to offset the massive costs of offering...

17.01.2026 10

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Worried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple

Anthropic’s latest data suggests AI won’t wipe out work overnight—but it will redraw the map of who wins, who struggles, and how jobs actually change.

16.01.2026 7

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AI ‘godfather’ Yoshua Bengio says he’s found a fix for AI’s biggest risks and become more optimistic by ‘a big margin’ on humanity’s future

After years warning that advanced AI could spiral out of control, the deep-learning pioneer now sees a way to build AI that won't pose a threat. His...

15.01.2026 40

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AI is boosting productivity. Here’s why some workers feel a sense of loss

As AI speeds up work, many professionals say it’s quietly changing how their jobs feel—and what they value about them.

08.01.2026 7

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A year ago, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said the ‘ChatGPT moment’ for robotics was around the corner. Now he says it’s ‘nearly here.’ But is it?

Huang says advances in models, simulation, and compute have pushed robotics to a long-awaited inflection point — but turning platforms into...

06.01.2026 8

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After Nvidia’s Groq deal, meet the other AI chip startups that may be in play—and one looking to disrupt them all

Nvidia’s $20 billion Groq deal signals that AI inference—not training—will be the big focus going forward, lifting a crop of chip and software...

05.01.2026 8

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Nvidia’s Groq bet shows that the economics of AI chip-building are still unsettled

Nvidia believes running AI models will be highly profitable, but its Groq deal reflects uncertainty over which chips and architectures will dominate.

31.12.2025 9

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At the edges of the AI data center boom, rural America is up against Silicon Valley billions

When a multibillion-dollar AI data center proposal pit developers against a handful of rural Arizona residents, the locals were outgunned and...

27.12.2025 60

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Silicon Valley’s tone-deaf take on the AI backlash will matter in 2026

AI’s champions keep trying to impress, but the public is still waiting for answers about jobs, costs, and who benefits. By 2026, that tension will...

23.12.2025 9

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OpenAI is a house still under construction — but no one agrees what it’s made of

Trillions of tokens, billions in compute, and a company racing in multiple directions—critics and boosters alike debate whether OpenAI’s breakneck...

18.12.2025 6

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announces departure of AI exec Rohit Prasad in leadership shakeup

Prasad's exit comes after Amazon struggled to show its internal AI efforts could match those of rivals—and just as reports surface that Amazon is...

18.12.2025 5

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OpenAI releases new image model as it races to outpace Google’s Nano Banana amid company Code Red

The update follows Sam Altman’s internal “Code Red” push, as OpenAI races to counter Google’s fast-growing Gemini and its viral Nano Banana...

16.12.2025 8

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CoreWeave CEO: Despite see-sawing stock, IPO was ‘incredibly successful’ after challenges of Liberation Day tariff timing

At Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator defended the company’s debt-heavy strategy and argued Wall Street is still...

10.12.2025 8

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Sam Altman declares ‘Code Red’ as Google’s Gemini surges—three years after ChatGPT caused Google CEO Sundar Pichai to do the same

With Gemini 3’s strong rollout and rising user base, Google suddenly has the edge, and OpenAI is racing to keep its dominance from slipping away.

03.12.2025 9

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Nvidia blows past revenue targets and forecasts trillions in AI infrastructure spending by end of decade

Strong revenue and “off-the-charts” GPU demand show Nvidia’s AI engine still roaring as CEO Jensen Huang delivers a beat-and-raise quarter

20.11.2025 7

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Google releases its heavily hyped Gemini 3 AI in a sweeping rollout—even Search gets it on day one

The widespread release of Gemini 3, including its fastest-ever deployment into Google Search, signals the company's ambition to dominate in AI.

19.11.2025 9

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Jeff Bezos is putting $6.2 billion—and himself as co-CEO—behind a new AI startup. Bubble? That’s no trouble

AI bubble talk continues to fizz, but Amazon founder Jeff Bezos—one of the world’s richest people—doesn’t seem bothered by the mounting foam.

18.11.2025 10

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Microsoft, freed from relying on OpenAI, joins the race for ‘superintelligence’—and AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wants to ensure it serves humanity

Microsoft follows Meta in rebranding its advanced AI efforts as "superintelligence." But Suleyman says Microsoft's "humanist" approach means it will...

06.11.2025 10

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The under-the-radar factor that helped Democrats win in Virginia, New Jersey, and Georgia 

As the AI land rush accelerates, local fights over water, power, and land may shape who wins and loses in American politics.

06.11.2025 10

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Meet OpenAI’s master builder: Greg Brockman is steering a $1.4 trillion infrastructure surge with stakes that go far beyond AI

As OpenAI's president, Brockman is steamrolling toward "completing the mission" of moving beyond AI to artificial general intelligence (AGI).

05.11.2025 10

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Inside the new open AI platform that helps anyone track a changing planet

OlmoEarth, a new open-source platform from the Allen Institute for AI, runs powerful AI models trained on millions of Earth observations from...

05.11.2025 8

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Meta’s $27 billion bet turns AI compute into Wall Street’s hottest new investment

As the AI data center build out charges ahead at full speed, a new asset class is emerging.

31.10.2025 10

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Huge AI data centers are turning local elections into fights over the future of energy

Rising energy bills and growing scrutiny of Big Tech’s political influence are transforming AI data centers from obscure infrastructure into...

22.10.2025 10

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Exclusive: Early AI darling LangChain is now a unicorn with a fresh $125 million in funding

With new funding led by IVP and a roster of enterprise customers, LangChain wants to power the coming wave of AI agents—and investors are betting it...

20.10.2025 10

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This 26-year-old’s TikTok-like AI app makes playful, creative short videos from just a few words—it’s built for Gen Z

Pika, Demi Guo's fast-growing AI video app, is taking on Meta’s Vibes and OpenAI’s Sora by turning quick prompts and selfies into shareable clips.

17.10.2025 10

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