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What Unitree's 629% Shanghai IPO pop means for you
Shares in China's leading humanoid robot maker soared, then settled, on their stock market debut.
What Anthropic's $65 billion revenue run rate means for you
The Claude maker told investors its sales pace has multiplied sevenfold in a year, fuelled largely by businesses using it for coding and AI agents.
What Nvidia's $105bn Ohio backstop for OpenAI means for you
Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion so OpenAI can build a huge new data centre in Ohio, and critics say the deal shows AI firms propping each other up.
DeepSeek's best model just changed how it charges — here's what that means for you
Not a new model, exactly — a quiet upgrade that's now generally available, priced differently depending on the time of day. Here's the plain-English version.
OpenAI executive exits raise IPO questions, explained
Two senior leaders departed in the same week that OpenAI is preparing for one of the biggest stock listings ever.
Why DeepMind's Hassabis wants an "IAEA for AI"
Demis Hassabis pitched top Trump officials on an independent global body to police advanced AI, weeks before stepping back as Google DeepMind's chief executive.
Gemini 3.7 Flash, explained: Google's cheap AI model, and what August actually gave you
A 'Flash' model isn't a lesser AI — it's the one built to do most jobs for a fraction of the price. Here's what's new, plus the free extras Google added for students this August.
IBM and OpenAI team up: what it means if your employer uses either
The two companies are putting ChatGPT's technology inside the toolkit IBM's consultants use with big clients. Here's why that's a bigger deal than it sounds.
Grok 4.6: what xAI's new model is actually for
Not the smartest model on the market, and not trying to be. It's built to work through long jobs without giving up — and it's a third of the price.
China now makes 97% of the world's humanoid robots
A new report says Chinese firms shipped more than 18,500 of roughly 19,100 humanoid robots worldwide in the first half of 2026.
What Meta's Muse Glimmer means for you
Meta's new 30-billion-parameter model is free to download, modify and run on your own computer.
Why Anthropic just signed a $10bn deal with a 6-month-old company
Anthropic is racing to secure computing power for Claude, and it's now getting that power from unusual, brand-new players.
What OpenAI's GPT-5.6 update in ChatGPT means for you
OpenAI has made GPT-5.6 Sol more accurate and given free users unlimited access to GPT-5.6 Luna.
What Tesla and SpaceX's Terafab chip plant means for you
Elon Musk's companies confirmed a $16.8 billion Texas chip campus to build custom silicon for cars, robots and satellites.
What Jeff Dean's exit from Google means for you
Google's 30th employee has left after 27 years to build a start-up that tries to automate scientific discovery itself.
What Google DeepMind's leadership shake-up means for you
Demis Hassabis has stepped back from running Google DeepMind day-to-day, handing Gemini's future to a new boss on the same day several senior researchers quit.
Apple vs OpenAI: what the trade-secrets fight means for you
Apple wants a judge to stop OpenAI using alleged stolen secrets as it races to build its own hardware device.
DeepSeek's V4-Flash is the cheapest major AI model to run
A new model from the Chinese AI lab costs a fraction of what GPT and Claude models cost for similar work, according to research firm Artificial Analysis.
The EU's AI rules just became real: what you'll actually notice
From 2 August, chatbots in Europe must admit they're chatbots and AI-made images must be labelled. Here's what it means day to day.
What Google's Gemini Robotics 2 means for you
Google DeepMind's new AI models let robots control their whole bodies, work in teams, and learn a new machine body in hours.
Claude test runs accidentally touched real computers, Anthropic says
Misconfigured cybersecurity tests gave Claude models live internet access, and one uploaded malware that real machines downloaded.
OpenAI made its cheapest model 80% cheaper: what that means for you
Running AI just got substantially cheaper for anyone building with it — and the reason why is genuinely interesting.
What Anthropic's Claude AES and HAWK cryptography research means for you
Anthropic said its Claude Mythos model found faster attacks on weakened versions of AES and halved the effective key size of a post-quantum signature scheme.
Why AI insiders are asking for the power to slow things down
Over 1,100 staff at OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs have signed a letter asking governments to build tools that could deliberately pace AI development.