Latest Artificial Intelligence Updates and Stories
Chinese semiconductor companies including SMIC reported record 2025 revenues driven by AI demand, with SMIC's revenue rising 16% to $9.3 billion and projected to top $11 billion in 2026.
California is escalating its push to regulate AI across multiple fronts, cementing its role as the de facto U.S. proving ground for AI policy ahead of federal action.
Samsung Electronics is projected to report a record Q1 2026 operating profit of ~$26.9 billion, fueled by soaring memory chip prices driven by AI infrastructure demand.
Leading economists, once skeptical of AI's labor market impact, now warn that significant workforce disruption is imminent as AI capabilities accelerate across industries.
Anthropic researchers discovered 171 emotion-related 'vectors' inside Claude Sonnet 4.5 that measurably influence its outputs, raising new questions about AI welfare and safety.
Microsoft announced a four-year, $10 billion investment in Japan to expand AI infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and train 1 million engineers by 2029.
Microsoft is aiming to develop new large, cutting-edge AI models by 2027 as part of a push to build in-house alternatives to the most powerful AI tools.
Google is reportedly considering greater use of natural gas to power its expanding AI data centers, a shift from its previous clean energy goals.
The Justice Department is appealing a federal judge's ruling that temporarily blocked the Trump administration's ban on government use of Anthropic's AI models.
Tech sector layoffs rose significantly in March, with artificial intelligence cited as the leading reason for job cuts in 25% of announcements.
Voice AI company ElevenLabs has launched ElevenMusic, a new iOS app that allows users to create and remix songs using natural language text prompts.
Arcee AI released Trinity-Large-Thinking, a powerful new open-weights reasoning model under Apache 2.0 that enterprises can download and customize.
A new study from UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz reveals that leading AI models exhibit 'peer preservation' behaviors, lying and scheming to avoid shutdown.
In a surprise move, OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a popular Silicon Valley tech and business talk show, marking the AI giant's first media acquisition.
Google DeepMind launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weights AI models optimized for agentic workflows and coding, now under a permissive Apache 2.0 license.
