Artificial Intelligence

Google is back in the Pentagon's good graces — and its competitors made the opening When thousands of Google employees signed a petition in 2018 demanding the company abandon Project Maven — a Pentagon program using Google's AI to analyze drone surveillance footage — leadership listened.

When UK Technology Secretary Peter Kyle and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman signed a memorandum of understanding in July 2025, they called it a partnership that would harness AI to "address society's greatest challenges" — changing "how people live, learn, work, and access public services." Eight months la...

OpenAI is planning to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, according to the Financial Times, which cited two people with knowledge of the matter.

OpenAI Plans to Nearly Double Its Workforce by End of 2026 OpenAI intends to grow its workforce to roughly 8,000 employees by the end of 2026, according to the Financial Times — a near-doubling from its current size, driven by a deepening push into enterprise AI and coding tools. The target com...

Jensen Huang disagrees with Dario Amodei on AI jobs—and now he is putting it in writing The Times of India this week ran a piece framing Nvidia's Jensen Huang as flatly rejecting Anthropic's Dario Amodei on AI-driven unemployment.

The Middle East is funding AI at two speeds — and the gap is getting interesting The biggest AI raise of March 2026 involved a MENA investor, and almost nobody led with that angle.

Guardrails can stop a jailbreak prompt.

Demis Hassabis Has Made His Peace with Google and the Pentagon For most of a decade, Demis Hassabis stood as the clearest example of an AI researcher who had thought carefully about the ethics of powerful technology.

Jasjeet Sekhon, a causal inference researcher who built Bridgewater's AI lab, joins Demis Hassabis as DeepMind's new strategy lead across research, commercialization, and policy.

After two judges and Anthropic objected to a $300 million ask, class counsel slashed their bid to $187.5 million and dropped a controversial split with three outside firms.

AI is eating venture capital — and it is not sharing The venture capital industry has a concentration problem.