Category: AI

OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Coming to the US Military

OpenAI’s Open-Weight Models Are Marching Into the Military — Because What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Oh, fantastic. Just what the world needed — OpenAI getting snuggly with the U.S. military. Apparently, the AI overlords have...

AI Relationships Are on the Rise. A Divorce Boom Could Be Next

AI Relationships Are on the Rise — and Humanity Is About to Screw Itself (Again) So apparently, people have decided that real relationships — you know, the messy, full-of-feelings, and occasionally murder-inducing kind —...

Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI

Milestone Bags $10M to Make AI Pay for Its Own Damn Hype Right, so apparently some clever bastards at a company called Milestone just convinced investors to cough up $10 million to “make AI rhyme with ROI.” Yeah, because what...

Coding assistant Cursor raises $2.3B 5 months after its previous round

Coding Assistant Cursor Raises $2.3B — Because Apparently Money Grows on Silicon Valley Trees Oh for fuck’s sake, Cursor — that coding assistant startup that claims it’s “revolutionizing coding” or some other buzzword...

Microsoft’s plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting

Microsoft’s Brilliant Plan to Let Someone Else Fix Their Damn Chip Problem Well, well, well. Microsoft’s at it again — playing the “we’ve got this under control” game while quietly shoving their chip mess under...

Google augments AI shopping with conversational search, agentic checkout and an AI that calls stores for you

Google’s New AI Shopping Circus — Because Clearly, We Didn’t Have Enough Creepy Robots Already So, Google’s at it again — stuffing more bloody AI into your shopping experience because *obviously* managing your own...

LinkedIn adds AI-powered search to help users find people

LinkedIn Unleashes AI-Powered Search Because Apparently, We Can't Search For Ourselves Anymore Oh bloody hell, LinkedIn’s at it again — they’ve shoved some so-called "AI magic" into their platform to help all the ambitious...

Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in

Teen Tech Geniuses Raise a Crapload of Cash to Nuke Bugs with AI — and Rope in Paul Bloody Graham Right, so apparently some teenage braniacs — who probably haven’t even finished growing facial hair yet — just waltzed into...

Google’s SIMA 2 agent uses Gemini to reason and act in virtual worlds

Google’s SIMA 2: Yet Another Fancy-Ass AI Trying to Take Over Virtual Worlds Well, apparently the geniuses at Google have decided that we don’t quite have enough creepy digital overlords yet, so they’ve spun up something...

Google’s NotebookLM adds ‘Deep Research’ tool, support for more file types

Google’s NotebookLM Grows a Brain — Sort Of Right, so apparently Google’s shiny AI note-taker, NotebookLM, just got a so-called “Deep Research” tool. Because clearly the tech bros at Mountain View thought, “What if...