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Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.

OpenAI’s former Sora boss is leaving

Last month, OpenAI gave up on its Sora video generation tool, and on Friday, the Sora team's leader, Bill Peebles, announced that he is leaving the company. OpenAI has been shifting its priorities as part of an effort to avoid "side quests," and Peebles' departure is just one of many recent changes as the company […]

Should you stare into Sam Altman’s orb before your next date?

Tinder users who prove they're a real person by visiting an identity-verifying orb will soon be able to get five free boosts in the app - and it's just the latest service to embrace the orb. World, which was co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, initially tested Tinder verification using its facial scanning orbs through […]

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles exit OpenAI as company continues to shed ‘side quests’

Kevin Weil and Bill Peebles are leaving OpenAI as the company shuts down Sora and folds its science team, signaling a sharp pivot away from consumer moonshots toward enterprise AI.

Anthropic’s new cybersecurity model could get it back in the government’s good graces

The Trump administration has spent nearly two months fighting with AI company Anthropic. It's dubbed the company a "RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY" full of "Leftwing nut jobs" and a menace to national security. But some of the ice may reportedly be melting between the two, thanks to Anthropic's buzzy new cybersecurity-focused model: Claude Mythos Preview. […]

Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges

Returning backers a16z and Thrive are expected to lead the round.

‘Tokenmaxxing’ is making developers less productive than they think

There's a lot more code — but it's a lot more expensive and requires a lot more rewriting.

This charming gadget writes bad AI poetry

I've never been as charmed and frustrated by one gadget as I have with the Poetry Camera. It's a delightful object. White and cherry red with a color-matched woven strap, it looks playful and adorably lo-fi. If I saw it on a store shelf, I'd absolutely pick it up. But aside from obviously appealing, I'm […]

Building a Fast Multilingual OCR Model with Synthetic Data

Tokenmaxxing, OpenAI’s shopping spree, and the AI Anxiety Gap

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too […]

Dairy Queen is putting an AI chatbot in its drive-thrus

Dairy Queen is becoming the latest fast food chain to get in on AI, as it's bringing a chatbot to dozens of its drive-thrus across the US and Canada. It aims to help speed up drive-thru service and "encourage customers to add more food to their orders," according to The Wall Street Journal. Following a […]

Anthropic launches Claude Design, a new product for creating quick visuals

The company says Claude Design is intended to help people like founders and product managers without a design background share their ideas more easily.

7 ways to travel smarter this summer, with help from Google

The latest tools from Google can help you plan trips, find a great deal and explore your next destination.

Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners

The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.

The ‘AI is inevitable’ trap

In the latest sign of AI silly season, Allbirds, the shoe company, told the world it was now an AI company and briefly managed to septuple its stock price. The Newbird AI story is really just one of a bunch of things this week that made us wonder: have we reached the peak of AI, […]

Are we tokenmaxxing our way to nowhere?

The gap between AI insiders and everyone else is widening, and the spending, suspicion, and even new vocabulary are starting to show it. While OpenAI is busy buying up everything from finance apps to talk shows, a certain shoe company just rebranded as an AI infrastructure play, and Anthropic unveiled a model it says is too powerful to release publicly …but apparently not too […]

How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history

Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba. The real ambition for many of these researchers was the robot of science fiction—one…

Bringing AI-driven protein-design tools to biologists everywhere

Founded by Tristan Bepler PhD ’20 and former MIT professor Tim Lu PhD ’07, OpenProtein.AI offers researchers open-source models and other tools for protein engineering.

Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project

The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.

Upscale AI in talks to raise at $2B valuation, says report

AI infrastructure company Upscale AI is reportedly in talks to raise its third funding round since launching just seven months ago.

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught

The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

A new way to explore the web with AI Mode in Chrome

Today’s upgrades for AI Mode in Chrome transform how you interact with the web

Google’s AI Mode update lets you open links without leaving the page

Google is upgrading AI Mode in Chrome with a new feature that will allow you to open links to sources alongside your chat. Now, instead of automatically opening a new tab, clicking a source will open the website side by side with AI Mode, allowing you to ask follow-up questions about what's on the page. […]

OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code

OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system, Codex, with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. The package of updates comes as OpenAI's rivalry with Anthropic intensifies, following the stellar successes of Claude Code and OpenAI aggressively shifting resources to catch up. […]

New ways to create personalized images in the Gemini app

Nano Banana 2 now uses your personal context and Google Photos to create images that reflect your unique life.

Gemini can now pull from Google Photos to generate personalized images

Google's Personal Intelligence feature, which lets Gemini pull data from apps like Google Photos to offer responses tailored to you, can now use that data and its Nano Banana 2 image model to create images based on your personal context. With the feature, you can use prompts like "Design my dream house" or "Create a […]

Anthropic releases a new Opus model amid Mythos Preview buzz

Anthropic has released its most powerful "generally available" model to date: Claude Opus 4.7. The company called it a step up from Opus 4.6 for advanced software engineering tasks, particularly in complex coding areas that in the past required more hand-holding. It's also supposed to be better at analyzing images and following instructions, and it […]

Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments

The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…

Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer

There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…

Why having “humans in the loop” in an AI war is an illusion

The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic and the Pentagon. This debate has become urgent, with AI playing a bigger role than ever before in the current conflict with Iran. AI is no longer just helping humans analyze intelligence. It is now an…

Codex for (almost) everything

The updated Codex app for macOS and Windows adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory, and plugins to accelerate developer workflows.

Introducing GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

OpenAI introduces GPT-Rosalind, a frontier reasoning model built to accelerate drug discovery, genomics analysis, protein reasoning, and scientific research workflows.

Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all

Leading security firms and enterprises join OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber, using GPT-5.4-Cyber and $10M in API grants to strengthen global cyber defense.

Ecom-RLVE: Adaptive Verifiable Environments for E-Commerce Conversational Agents

The PR you would have opened yourself

Training and Finetuning Multimodal Embedding & Reranker Models with Sentence Transformers

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS: the next generation of expressive AI speech

Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS is now available across Google products.

Inside VAKRA: Reasoning, Tool Use, and Failure Modes of Agents

The next evolution of the Agents SDK

OpenAI updates the Agents SDK with native sandbox execution and a model-native harness, helping developers build secure, long-running agents across files and tools.

Meet HoloTab by HCompany. Your AI browser companion.

Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-box compliance exercise, but rather as the first overture in an ongoing customer relationship.…

Redefining the future of software engineering

Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Second, the adoption of development operations (DevOps) and agile methodologies took software from siloed to collaborative development and from batch to continuous delivery. Now, a third such…

Turn your best AI prompts into one-click tools in Chrome

Skills in Chrome let you discover, save and remix AI workflows — and repeat them instantly.

Human-machine teaming dives underwater

Researchers are developing hardware and algorithms to improve collaboration between divers and autonomous underwater vehicles engaged in maritime missions.

Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI

As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.

Coming soon: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

Each year we compile our 10 Breakthrough Technologies list, featuring our educated predictions for which technologies will have the biggest impact on how we live and work. This year, however, we had a dilemma. While our final picks encompass all our core coverage areas (energy, AI, and biotech, plus a few more), our 2026 list…

Bringing people together at AI for the Economy Forum

Google is bringing people together in Washington D.C. at our AI for the Economy Forum.

Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense

OpenAI expands its Trusted Access for Cyber program, introducing GPT-5.4-Cyber to vetted defenders and strengthening safeguards as AI cybersecurity capabilities advance.

Why opinion on AI is so divided

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. In an industry that doesn’t stand still, Stanford’s AI Index, an annual roundup of key results and trends, is a chance to take a breath. (It’s a marathon, not a sprint, after…

Want to understand the current state of AI? Check out these charts.

If you’re following AI news, you’re probably getting whiplash. AI is a gold rush. AI is a bubble. AI is taking your job. AI can’t even read a clock. The 2026 AI Index from Stanford University’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, AI’s annual report card, comes out today and cuts through some of that noise. …

Enterprises power agentic workflows in Cloudflare Agent Cloud with OpenAI

Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world tasks with speed and security.

Creating images with ChatGPT

Learn how to create and refine images with ChatGPT using clear prompts, iterate on designs, and generate high-quality visuals in minutes.

ChatGPT for research

Learn how to use ChatGPT for research to gather sources, analyze information, and create structured, citation-backed insights.

Healthcare

Explore how clinicians use ChatGPT to support diagnosis, documentation, and patient care with secure, HIPAA-compliant AI tools.

Our response to the Axios developer tool compromise

OpenAI responds to the Axios supply chain attack by rotating macOS code signing certificates, updating apps, and confirming no user data was compromised.

Using projects in ChatGPT

Learn how to use orojects in ChatGPT to organize chats, files, and instructions, manage ongoing work, and collaborate more effectively.

Analyzing data with ChatGPT

Learn how to analyze data with ChatGPT by exploring datasets, generating insights, creating visualizations, and turning findings into actionable decisions.

A philosophy of work

As the NC Ethics of Technology Postdoctoral Fellow, Michal Masny is advancing dialogue, teaching, and research into the social and ethical dimensions of new computing technologies.