Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft are expected to spend $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026, up from $410 billion in 2025, highlighting rapid scaling amid compute demand.
Guide Labs launched Steerling-8B, an 8-billion parameter LLM with interpretable architecture that allows every token to be traced back to its training data.
Spotify is rolling out its AI-powered Prompted Playlists to Premium users in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden, allowing personalized playlists from natural-language prompts.
Particle has launched AI-powered Podcast Clips, enabling users to access relevant audio excerpts from podcasts alongside related news stories.
A former Citigroup executive says commercially available humanoid robots can now deliver a return on investment in under 10 weeks, potentially accelerating enterprise automation.
An experimental AI agent created by an OpenAI employee mistakenly transferred $441,000 worth of tokens in response to a social media request, highlighting risks in autonomous crypto trading systems.
Former DeepMind researcher David Silver has raised $1 billion for London-based Ineffable Intelligence, aiming to build a superintelligence that learns autonomously through experience.
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.1 Pro across consumer, developer, and enterprise products, touting major gains in reasoning performance and benchmark results.
Contra unveiled Contra Payments, a new platform enabling creatives to sell products and services directly to both humans and AI agents, marking a shift toward “agentic commerce.”
OpenAI recruits Charles Porch, ex-Instagram partnerships head, to ease tensions with Hollywood and build trust with filmmakers and creatives around AI technology.
ByteDance is hiring for dozens of U.S.-based AI roles as it aims to compete with American companies despite ongoing national security concerns.
OpenAI is partnering with Reliance to add AI-powered conversational search to JioHotstar, enabling multi-language recommendations for movies, shows, and sports.
OpenAI is reportedly closing a funding round expected to exceed $100 billion, potentially boosting its valuation beyond $850 billion as it invests heavily in AI infrastructure.
India’s AI Impact Summit in New Delhi delivered more than $250 billion in investment commitments, spanning data centers, AI infrastructure, and global expansion plans.
Figma shares surged after the company issued stronger-than-expected revenue guidance and detailed plans to expand AI-driven features and monetization.