Innovative AI Creators Are Moving Past AI’s One-Trick Pony Era

AI creative innovators are showing that craft, story, collaboration and taste still rule, breaking from “AI slop”, the use of AI to quickly, and tastelessly, generate outputs with little effort.

Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute

The companies announced the deal on Friday, just one week ahead of SpaceX’s historic IPO.

AI Coding Startup Lovable In Talks To Raise Funding At A $12 Billion Valuation

The less than two-year old startup crossed $400 million in annual recurring revenue earlier this year. The new fundraise would almost double its valuation.

The most interesting startups right now want to get you off your phone

While the AI fundraising machine keeps breaking its own records, some founders are building in the other direction.  Mirror founder Brynn Putnam just raised money for Board, a startup focused on bringing people together through in-person…

Claude Becomes The Enterprise Favorite As Anthropic Passes OpenAI

For the first time, Anthropic leads OpenAI in U.S. business adoption. The surprise shift reveals what enterprise buyers now value most in AI.

This is your laptop… on AI
This is your laptop… on AI

We’re now deep into developer conference season, and one of the themes so far is the relentless conviction from Big Tech companies that AI is going to change everything about how we do everything. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang made that clearer than anyone this week, when he described a completely new way of using our laptops […]

The Search Engine for Biology

Today, before a scientist ever picks up a pipette, much of the early work can happen with the help of computers. this shift is called a search engine for biology.

New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers
New York lawmakers pass one-year ban on new data centers

The New York State legislature passed a one-year moratorium on new large data centers, the first statewide ban of its kind if Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signs it into law. Lawmakers behind the bill say it’s meant to give policymakers time to understand the impact of large data centers on the environment and energy prices. […]

The token bill comes due: Inside the industry scramble to manage AI’s runaway costs

“The whole conversation shifted from tokenmaxxing and ‘go fast’ to ‘we need guardrails, how do we control this?'”

This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film
This AI startup says it can tell if a script will make a hit film

When Quilty hit the industry trades earlier this year, the AI startup promised that its tool could accurately predict a film’s success just by reading the script. When people actually got a chance to experiment with Quilty’s product, though, they were left skeptical. Even with all the available data in the world, it predicted the […]