OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor

OpenAI’s cofounder and longtime president Greg Brockman didn’t just make a run-of-the-mill donation to the main pro-Trump super PAC – together, he and his wife Anna’s September 2025 donations equaled the largest of them all, totaling $25 million to “MAGA Inc.,” per a recent filing. The Brockmans’ donations made up nearly one-fourth of the six-month […]

Google Photos Wants To Become Your Next Doomscrolling Obsession

A leaked update reveals Google Photos is testing a vertical, AI-powered video feed similar to YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels and TikTok

AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’

Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real sav…

Microsoft Unveils A New AI Inference Accelerator Chip, Maia 200

Microsoft’s new Maia 200 inference accelerator chip enters this overheated market with a new chip that aims to cut the price to serve AI responses.

MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva
MCP unites Claude chat with apps like Slack, Figma, and Canva

Anthropic’s Claude got a bit livelier today thanks to a new extension to MCP, the open-source protocol that allows AI agents to easily access tools and data across the internet. Users will now be able to interact with apps directly inside the Claude chatbot, letting you draft and format Slack messages to colleagues and create […]

Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view of planetary, human, economic health

The 12-year-old firm raised $360,360,360 for its fifth fund. And there’s a reason for that number.

Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

Claude users will now be able to call up interactive apps inside the chatbot interface, with Cowork integration coming soon.

OpenAI is working out how much to charge for ChatGPT ads
OpenAI is working out how much to charge for ChatGPT ads

OpenAI is reportedly asking a high price to advertise on ChatGPT, around $60 per 1,000 views, or triple what ads on Meta’s platform usually cost, according to The Information. Despite the higher price, OpenAI won’t be offering advertisers the same level of detailed information that Google and Meta do, such as whether users took any […]

Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it

For many years, credit card companies and other payment methods were aggressive about policing child sexual abuse material. Then, Elon Musk’s Grok started undressing children on X. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found 101 sexualized images of children as part of its sample of 20,000 images made by Grok from December 29th to January […]

Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

More than 450 tech workers from companies like Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and Salesforce have signed a letter urging their CEOs to call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities.