Generative AI

• Kansas City Tests AI Damage Assessment With 96% Accuracy in Disaster Drill

  The city partnered with X’s Bellwether to compare drone-based AI analysis with manual surveys, cutting assessment time from hours to minutes.

• The Apartment Where ChatGPT Was Born Is for Sale — And AI Is Reshaping the Market It's Listed In

  The San Francisco penthouse where Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman first built ChatGPT in 2016 has hit the market at $1.55 million — at the exact moment AI tools like Homes.com's new Homes AI are rewriting how Americans buy homes.

• BlackBerry's On-Device AI Play: Email Intelligence That Never Touches the Cloud

  BlackBerry launched Work Smart Tools, an AI suite that summarizes, proofreads, and rewrites emails entirely on-device with zero cloud processing, leveraging Apple Foundation Models and Google Gemini Nano.

• Redfin Uses AI to Simplify Home Search and Reduce Friction for Buyers

  The AI is not meant to replace agents in high-stakes transactions.

• Rivian Ditches Nvidia, Builds Custom AI Chip for Self-Driving

  "Developing custom silicon is capital-intensive, but it's the right long-term play"

• Prime Video is rolling out AI-generated Recaps for its original shows

  Useful catch-ups, or a quiet shift from human editors to machine-cut storytelling?

• Yann LeCun Isn’t Buying Anthropic’s Cyberattack Story

  He challenges Anthropic’s geopolitical claim and warns the result could be new limits on open-source AI

• Turns Out, the First Use Case for AI is Also the Worst

  Customer service was supposed to prove AI’s value. Instead, for companies like FedEx, it’s exposing its limits

• Before We Launch AI Into Space, Let’s Fix It on Earth

  The biggest efficiency gains in AI are still coming from chips, code, and smarter cooling systems on the ground

• The Risk of Compounding Errors Is Now Built Into GitHub

  Agent HQ gives enterprises a control plane for autonomous coders. The more they cooperate, the more a single error can spread

• Sellers Could Lose Their Identity as PayPal Pushes AI Shopping

  As PayPal plugs into ChatGPT, the promise of effortless buying could come at the expense of merchant identity

• The GPU Era Is Fading and Qualcomm Smells Opportunity

  Their new AI chips aim to power the world’s data centers more efficiently, and end the GPU’s long reign over artificial intelligence

• Opera Turns the Browser Into a Research Machine

  Opera’s Neon now comes with a Deep Research Agent that splits questions across multiple AI models to do the heavy lifting

• Vibe Coding Promised Instant Software. It Also Delivered Instant Risk

  Partnerships like Snyk x Cognition come at a moment where security tries to catch up to the machines

• The Web’s Power Brokers Are Moving to Control How AI Agents Transact

  Cloudflare and Visa are building a verification network that decides which machines can buy, sell, and be trusted online

• Slackbot Is Now Your Company-Mandated Personal Assistant

  The new Slackbot shows how corporate AI shifts from optional tool to mandatory infrastructure

• Top 12 AI Platforms For Remote Work

  Remote work continues to reshape the global workforce in 2025, driven by advancing technologies and evolving employee expectations.

• The Power Grid Can’t Keep Up With AI. Cisco Thinks the Network Can

  Cisco’s new Silicon One chip is built to connect multiple data centres as AI power needs outgrow single sites

• Cognizant’s Babak Hodjat Named Among UK’s Top AI Leaders

  AI has the potential to solve complex problems, but it must be applied thoughtfully to ensure it benefits people and communities.

• Coupa Buys Scoutbee to Deepen Its AI in Supplier Discovery

  The acquisition connects Coupa’s spend data with Scoutbee’s supplier intelligence, closing a gap between sourcing and analytics

• Apple Wants to Get It Right This Time

  Apple’s new chatbot is paving the way for a smarter Siri, yet repeated delays and lawsuits are casting doubt on its AI strategy

• OpenAI, Oracle & Nvidia: The Billion Dollar Investment Loop

  A strategic investment or a billion dollar triad?

• Why AI Startups Are Working Seven Days a Week

  Founders call it passion, economists call it inefficient, and doctors call it a health risk

• These Lawsuits Will Determine the Future of AI

  OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Navigate Lawsuits That Could Change How AI Is Built

• Coca-Cola Bets on Generative AI to Save Oranges and Drive Global Innovation

  Coca-Cola joins MIT’s Generative AI Impact Consortium with “Save the Orange,” a bold initiative to fight citrus greening and secure the future of global agriculture.

• Steering Agents is an Unsolved Problem, says OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos

  Codex proposes code changes at scale, but engineering teams still decide what gets merged

• You.com Joins Unicorn Club With $1.5 Billion Valuation

  Once a search engine competitor, the startup now focuses on APIs and research agents for the enterprise

• Google Avoids the Worst with Chrome Ruling

  Still, a mandate to divulge search data can upend the AI race

• America's New Data Centers That Are Outpacing the Grid

  These projects promise growth, but water use, grid strain, and modest employment raise questions

• WIBEY Marks the Next Phase of Walmart’s Agent Push

  Instead of cutting back, the retailer is consolidating hundreds of agents under a handful of super agents

• OpenAI–Anthropic Safety Study Shows Limits of Self-Policing

  OpenAI and Anthropic exposed vulnerabilities in each other’s models while governments move to build independent evaluators

• Perplexity Keeps Dodging the Obvious: License the News

  Perplexity’s Comet Plus depends on browser adoption it doesn’t yet have

• The Biggest AI Bottleneck is Still Human Talent, Says Andrew Ng

  AI’s future will hinge on disciplined engineering, and empathy

• Nvidia’s Thor Makes Robots Smarter, But Not More Reliable

  The real-world failures of robotaxis and humanoids show the technology’s present low viability

• Decart Wants to End Doomscrolling with Real Time Video AI

  CEO Dean Leitersdorf thinks it starts with fun

• Sam Altman isn’t Worried About the AI Bubble

  OpenAI and the hyperscalers will survive, most AI startups won’t

• Parallel Says It Can Beat OpenAI at Deep Research

  Parag Agrawal’s new startup makes bold claims, but without peer review, the evidence remains unproven

• Can a Generated World Train a Real Robot?

  DeepMind and NVIDIA are chasing the same future from opposite ends

• Meta Bought Scale, But Not Stability

  Meta’s fourth AI reorganization in six months raises real questions

• Can Rivos Win Where Nvidia Is “Overkill”?

  Intel backed Rivos looks to raise $500M without mass producing a single chip