Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company.
Alex LeBrun, cofounder of medical scribe startup Nabla who LeCun hired to be the CEO of Advanced Machine Intelligence, thinks the startup’s new AI models could start to roll out in a year, with healthcare a major focus area.
Consumers spent more money in mobile apps than games in 2025, driven by AI app adoption.

OpenAI says it will minimize water use and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its data centers. “We’re being good neighbors,” the company said, directly addressing the growing opposition to AI projects amid rising utility bills. “We commit to paying our own way on energy, so that our operations don’t increase your electricity […]

OpenAI has added age prediction features to ChatGPT, meant to identify and bolster protections for underage users. These age detection plans were announced in December alongside updated guidelines for interacting with teens and follow a rise in similar age-gating efforts from online platforms, including Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Roblox. ChatGPT’s age prediction model works by […]
AI personas are used to craft synthetic mental health therapists. Doing so is very useful. It might also foretell the future of therapy. An AI Insider scoop.
At Davos 2026, historian Yuval Noah Harari argued that AI is shifting from a tool to an agent, a system that can learn, decide, create and manipulate.
Bolna said that 75% of its revenue is coming from self-serve customers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei unloaded on both the administration and U.S. chip companies over plans to sell to China. The criticism was particularly notable because one of those chipmakers, Nvidia, is a major partner and investor in Anthropic.
The feature is designed to stop problematic content from being delivered to users under the age of 18.