Sep 26, 2026BusinessPartnershipBusinessOpenAI Used Oxford’s Bodleian Texts for AI Training, Documents ShowOxford’s 2025 announcement focused on making historical texts easier to access. It did not mention model training, though the university says staff were open about that use.3 min
Sep 26, 2026BusinessLaunchBusinessGoogle DeepMind Chief Says Gemini 4 Is in Post-Training, Aims for Release This YearEngineers are using the model in a coding tool, but its release date remains open. DeepMind’s new day-to-day leader wants progress judged by whether people can trust AI agents.3 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessEnterprise adoptionBusinessChinese AI Models Gain Majority Token Share on Vercel as House Committees InvestigateNew Vercel figures extend a shift already visible on OpenRouter. Lower prices are winning work, though U.S. models still draw more spending.3 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessBusinessTesla Moved Optimus Training to Dedicated Teams After Workers Objected, Report SaysThe workforce dispute adds another constraint as Tesla tries to raise robot output and solve difficult assembly problems.3 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessResearchBusinessCESifo Study Finds No Widespread AI Job Loss Among Recent US GraduatesThe 2026 unemployment rate looks ordinary beside earlier summers, but a narrower payroll study found weakness in AI-exposed jobs.3 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessLaunchBusinessMicrosoft Drops the Copilot+ PC Name From New Surfaces That Still Meet Its RequirementsThe two Snapdragon-powered computers retain the hardware Microsoft once promoted with the badge. The company has not announced an end to the standard.4 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessEnterprise adoptionBusinessAnthropic Seeks 50.1% Founder Vote Ahead of IPO While Trust Keeps Board RoleThe proposed shares would add voting power without extra economic value. A separate trust would still choose most directors.2 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessOriginal researchResearchBusinessReview Finds Only One of Google’s Four Video Systems Has Ten-Minute Consistency ResultsA²RD’s results cover ten long videos graded by an AI judge. The other papers measure shorter ads, storyboards or prompt refinement, not the four systems working together.6 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessEarningsBusinessCognition Says Its Annualized Revenue Pace Has Crossed $1 BillionThe company behind Devin reported a sharp rise from May. Its milestone projects a year of sales from a shorter period; it is not revenue earned over a completed year.3 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessAcquisitionBusinessEpiq Buys Canopy to Bring AI-Assisted Breach Review Into Its Cyber ServicesCanopy’s software identifies sensitive data and affected people after an incident. Epiq has not said when customers will get the planned integration.2 min
Sep 25, 2026BusinessFundingBusinessBird Takes $450 Million in Debt as It Lets AI Agents Send Messages and Make CallsThe financing provides shareholder liquidity, not a new equity round. Bird’s Agentic Harness gives AI agents a way to reach customers, though the company has not detailed its action controls.4 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessBusinessSakana AI Hires Jürgen Schmidhuber to Advise New Self-Improvement LabThe Tokyo lab aims to connect AI-led research with models that predict physical actions. Sakana has set out a research goal, not a working system.2 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessPartnershipBusinessBNP Paribas Signs Five-Year Google Cloud Deal to Bring AI Agents Into Banking WorkThe bank plans to put Gemini in an assistant used by more than 65,000 employees and develop agents for tasks including credit-memo preparation. Some data will remain off public clouds.3 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessBusinessElevenLabs CEO Says Annual Recurring Revenue Has Reached $600 MillionLarge businesses now account for more than 55% of the voice AI company’s business, its CEO says. A customer building competing voice technology shows how fragile that position could be.3 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessEnterprise adoptionBusinessRockwell Says Factory AI Cut Downtime 33% and Will Reach More PlantsThe maintenance assistant draws on veteran engineers’ experience and machine manuals. Rockwell’s reported gains come from one site; the next test is whether they carry over elsewhere.4 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessPricing changeBusinessDeepSeek Reportedly Reaches $1 Billion Yearly Revenue Pace After API Price HikesThe reported pace has more than doubled in a few months, while most of the company’s computing capacity still goes toward training new models.2 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessOriginal researchResearchBusinessMeta Restricts Staff Access to Muse, but Stronger Privacy Is Still in TestingA public-document comparison separates today’s agent controls from a tester-only encrypted version and a planned private cloud path for glasses.5 min
Sep 24, 2026BusinessFundingBusinessLovable Says Its Annualized Revenue Has Passed $600 MillionIts co-founder points to corporate use and traffic to apps built on Lovable. Those figures show reach, but not how deeply companies use it or whether users’ apps earn money.3 min