The Frontier
The man who built OpenAI's o1 and o3 reasoning models now runs a lab whose stated goal is to make researchers like him obsolete — and he has put a number on how fast it will happen. Jerry Tworek, the former OpenAI research vice president who led the o-
The Arena
Nvidia's plan to become more than the chip supplier to the AI boom — to finance the data centers themselves and share in their revenue — just hit a speed bump. Nvidia has paused the revenue-sharing and credit-support deals it struck with AI cloud companies, people familiar with
The Frontier
Two signals out of China this hour — one a new kind of spatial-intelligence model, the other proof that a frontier model can now run cheaply on domestic chips. Alibaba's Amap has released ABot-Recon, a streaming 3D-reconstruction model that rebuilds 10,000-frame scenes while looking
The Arena
Alibaba Cloud has switched on its first data center region in Brazil, the company's second in Latin America. The new region, launched August 27, runs two availability zones offering compute, storage, and database services to enterprise and developer customers, with enterprise-grade AI services set to roll out
The Everyday
The camera-free AI glasses bet just got its first real proof of demand. RayNeo's iO is topping sales charts across China's three biggest e-commerce platforms within days of launch. The iO, a 34-gram pair of camera-free smart glasses priced from 1,996
The Frontier
The company behind Kujiale — one of China's biggest interior-design platforms — just made its clearest declaration yet that it wants to be infrastructure for the spatial-AI era, not just a design-software vendor. Its first interim results since listing show the AI business is now the only
The Guardrails
A federal judge has thrown out the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, handing the Claude maker a decisive win in one of the most closely watched legal fights between an AI lab and the US government. A California federal judge ruled Thursday that the
The Arena
The fourth annual TIME100 AI list is out, and it reads as a map of where the industry's power has migrated over the past year — from model labs into the compute, chips, and data-center infrastructure that actually sustains them. TIME's 2026 TIME100 AI list — its
The Arena
The AI industry's money story keeps zigging where nobody expects it. Eighteen months after DeepSeek shredded assumptions about what it costs to build frontier AI, its billionaire founder is now gambling his quant fund's capital on the wildest corner of China's equity market. Liang
The Frontier
A new benchmark built from researchers' own lab work is drawing the first honest line between AI agents that can talk about science and agents that can actually do it. The answer is humbling: the best system in the world clears fewer than a third of the tasks. Terminal-
The Arena
Two of AI's busiest storylines collided overnight: the coding-agent boom keeps printing money, and Anthropic's desktop agent stopped borrowing your browser and grew its own. Cognition is now generating roughly $900 million in annualized revenue — more than triple its pace at the start of the
The Arena
Two enterprise signals landed on the same day: Uber flattened its AI bill even as agent use exploded, and Workday showed AI agents now pulling customers into core platform deals. Both point the same direction — enterprise AI is moving from a cost headache to something a CFO can actually budget.