Anthropic’s AI-generated blog dies an early death
Anthropic was experimenting with an AI-generated blog. TechCrunch profiled it. Then, Anthropic shut it down.
Qualcomm to acquire semiconductor firm Alphawave Semi for $2.4B
Qualcomm has acquired Alphawave Semi, a U.K.-based semiconductor company focused on high-speed data center connectivity, for around $2.4 billion.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT’s voice mode with more natural-sounding speech
ChatGPT’s natural-sounding voice mode just got a big update, including more natural-sounding synthetic voice options.
Anthropic appoints a national security expert to its governing trust
Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust is a governance mechanism that Anthropic claims helps it promote safety over profit, and which has the power to elect some of the company’s board of directors.
EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it’s claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.
OpenAI’s marketing head takes leave to undergo breast cancer treatment
OpenAI’s head of marketing, Kate Rouch, has announced she’s stepping away from her role for three months while she undergoes treatment for invasive breast cancer.
Google says its updated Gemini 2.5 Pro AI model is better at coding
Google on Thursday announced an update to its Gemini 2.5 Pro preview model that the company claims is better at certain programming tasks. The company’s calling it an “updated preview,” building on the upgrade to Gemini 2.5 Pro that G…
Anthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customers
Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of “Claude Gov” models, were “built based on direct feedback from our government customers to addre…
North America takes the bulk of AI VC investments, despite tough political environment
Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this …
Hugging Face says its new robotics model is so efficient it can run on a MacBook
AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA, which the company claims outperforms much larger models for robotics in both virtual and real-world environments.