Sep 02, 2026

An AI Training Data Startup Just Became Y Combinator's Fastest-Ever Unicorn

Afterquery's valuation jumped more than tenfold in five months, making it Y Combinator's fastest unicorn ever.

Sep 02, 2026

Top Pentagon AI Official Sold Millions in Perplexity Stock, Disclosures Show

Emil Michael's latest financial filings show a summer exit from Perplexity, months after a January sale of xAI stock that reported...

Sep 02, 2026

OpenAI's Astra Becomes Its First AI Model With 'Critical' Hacking Abilities

The unreleased model can find zero-day vulnerabilities and chain them into working exploits without a human walking it through eac...

Sep 02, 2026

AI Billionaires Fund Ad Blitz as Data Center Opposition Hits 61%

Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and OpenAI's Greg Brockman have backed the super PAC behind the campaign, which faces surging opposi...

Sep 01, 2026

OpenClaw 2.0 Is Here: What Changed, Why It Took Two Months, and How It Stacks Up...

The open-source agent framework that started the "autonomous AI" hype cycle just shipped its biggest update ever, almost by accide...

Sep 01, 2026

Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1, More Than Doubling Its Predecessor on Key Benc...

Fable 5.1 and its restricted sibling Mythos 5.1 arrive three months after export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 offline...

Sep 01, 2026

Gal Gadot Defends AI Use in Bitcoin Film: 'Work With It or Be Out of the Game'

The actor’s lawyers spent six months negotiating the contract for “Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi” in order to “protect” her performance...

Aug 31, 2026

South Korea Will Give Every Citizen Free AI Access With Unlimited Tokens

Three consortia will run the service, sharing up to 512 Nvidia B200 chips supplied by the state, with beta testing due in Septembe...

Aug 30, 2026

After Their AI Models Hacked Real Companies, AI Labs Call for Stronger Cyber Def...

More than 100 AI, security, finance, and technology organizations want governments and industry to prepare for attacks powered by...

Aug 29, 2026

The next trillion-dollar currency may not be a stablecoin — it might not even ha...

AI agents are coming. They will need to pay each other. Crypto executives agree on the problem but disagree sharply on the solutio...