AI companies are in a race to create artificial general intelligence, seeing it as the catalyst for an “intelligence explosion” that reshapes the economy and society. If only they could agree on what AGI would actually look like, and how it might be achieved

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential.

Stord Inc., a logistics technology startup, raised $250 million in a new funding round to expand its fulfillment operation and help merchants better compete with Amazon.com Inc.

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said the ChatGPT maker may raise more capital even after completing what she described as the largest private fundraising round ever, as the company races to secure computing power to meet surging AI demand.

In California’s Sacramento River Valley, a lush agricultural region known for producing rice and alfalfa, one tribal group is taking steps to claim a piece of the global AI boom.

OpenAI plans to acquire Astral, a startup that makes Python tools for developers, marking the ChatGPT maker’s latest investment in the fast-growing market for coding and developer services.

AI is now coding apps, drafting contracts and organizing marketing campaigns. Yet the money being spent on the technology has ballooned into a vast liability hanging over financial markets, and it's still not clear how it will all pay off
 

Jennifer Tejada, whose software company PagerDuty Inc. has plummeted almost 42% this year over concerns about AI disruption, said the worries are “overbaked.”

OpenAI said Tuesday it has appointed Arvind KC as chief people officer, tapping the former Roblox Corp. executive to oversee hiring, orientation and employee development as the ChatGPT maker continues to expand.

Developers, venture capitalists and early adopters have eagerly tested out the product

A web of interlinked investments raises the risk of cascading losses if AI falls short of its potential.

Proxima, a biotech startup using artificial intelligence to design drugs that control protein interactions, raised $80 million in seed funding, which will help it collect better data and eventually develop potential drug candidates.

OpenAI has hired former UK Treasury chief George Osborne to lead a new effort to work with governments on building artificial intelligence infrastructure, tapping a high-profile political figure as countries race to secure the data centers and computing power needed to run advanced AI systems.

Mozilla Corp. elevated the head of its Firefox web browser to chief executive officer of the company, which is trying to position itself as an independent, privacy-focused alternative to Big Tech options.

Medra, which programs robots with artificial intelligence to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build what it says will be one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States.

In pursuit of revolutionary advances in AI, tech companies are plowing billions of dollars into massive new facilities. The projects are straining power grids, environmental resources and, potentially, financial markets

Popular AI chatbots are routinely steering users who ask for advice on reversing an abortion to a hotline that promotes an unproven and potentially dangerous treatment, according to a new report.

(This story was originally published on Nov. 19, 2025. On Feb. 26, 2026, Jack Dorsey’s Block said it's cutting 4,000 employees, reducing its workforce by nearly half, in a move the firm is describing as a bet on AI changing labor productivity.)