Category: AI NEWS

NEW YORK CITY — U.S. consumers aren’t just frustrated with high prices. They’re angry and confused about the increasingly high-tech ways that restaurant chains and major retailers are setting those prices. Digital…

OpenCode, an open source AI coding agent that has been gaining ground among developers as an alternative to Claude Code and Cursor, said Saturday that attackers broke into an older system overnight,…

Town, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup developing AI assistants, nabbed a unicorn valuation on Monday, announcing a $108 million Series B funding round co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures. The company…

Keep your enemies close. An artificial intelligence expert nicknamed the “Godfather of AI” has claimed that humans must befriend bots or face extinction — because the tech has apparently developed signs of…

Microsoft on Monday introduced new security features designed to protect enterprises from the growing threat of AI agents. The launch comes as Microsoft continues to warn enterprises about the dangers of AI…

Tolan, the AI companion designed to help people manage their daily lives, navigate relationships and emotions, and accomplish their goals, has just expanded its runway with another $30 million in capital. The…

On Monday, Amazon Web Services released a tool called TorchNeuron that lets AI startups easily move their AI apps onto Amazon’s AI chip, Trainium. In doing so, Amazon is also taking a…

CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator participates in a Bloomberg Television interview during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2026. Chris J. Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images AI stocks…

Today in news about stuff that AI agents have done that is relatively benign and/or at least does not involve hacking the government-funded healthcare system in my home country: beating Minecraft! And…

Elon Musk on Monday pledged to award a share of SpaceX to every American child, part of what he has vowed as an effort to unleash “universal high income” through AI. “Next…