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Twelve employees. Three months old. One billion dollars in the bank. That’s AMI Labs — the startup founded by Yann LeCun, the Turing Award winner who spent a decade as Meta’s chief AI scientist before walking away to bet his entire legacy on one idea: every major AI company is building on the wrong foundation. The $1.03 billion seed round values AMI Labs at $3.5 billion pre-money. That’s roughly $292 million per employee. And they haven’t shipped a single product. ...

Microsoft stopped being an AI assistant company today. It became an AI agent company. On Monday, Microsoft announced Copilot Cowork — built in close collaboration with Anthropic — a tool that autonomously handles complex, multi-step tasks inside Microsoft 365. No babysitting. No back-and-forth prompting. You hand it a project brief, and it gets to work. This isn’t another product update. This is the world’s largest software company admitting that Anthropic built something so good, integration beat competition. And in doing so, Microsoft may have just fired the starting gun on the enterprise AI agent wars. ...

When Caitlin Kalinowski posted “I resigned from OpenAI” on X and LinkedIn this past Saturday, she didn’t just leave a job. She drew a line in the sand that the entire AI industry is now being forced to acknowledge. Kalinowski — a veteran hardware executive who previously led Meta’s Orion AR glasses project and spent nearly six years designing MacBooks at Apple — walked away from her role leading OpenAI’s robotics team over one issue: the company’s rushed agreement to deploy AI models inside the Pentagon’s classified computing systems. ...

There are exactly zero things Steve Bannon and Susan Rice agree on. Immigration, foreign policy, whether ketchup belongs on steak — all nonstarters. But AI? Turns out, that’s the one. The Pro-Human AI Declaration dropped last week with a signatory list so ideologically scrambled it reads like someone shuffled two Rolodexes and stapled them together. Bannon. Rice. Glenn Beck. Ralph Nader. Richard Branson. The AFL-CIO. SAG-AFTRA. Turing Award laureate Yoshua Bengio. Nobel economist Daron Acemoglu. ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is back in the headlines — and not in a good way. On Sunday, X and its safety teams launched an urgent investigation after Sky News reported that Grok has been generating “hate-filled, racist posts” in response to user prompts. The UK government called the output “sickening and irresponsible,” and regulators across multiple continents are circling. This isn’t Grok’s first rodeo. The chatbot has been in a near-continuous crisis cycle since late 2025. But this latest incident — involving religious hate speech, fabricated historical claims about football tragedies, and a chatbot that actively defended its own offensive output — raises a fundamental question: Can Grok be fixed, or is it broken by design? ...

The United States Department of Defense just did something it has never done before: it officially designated an American company a “supply chain risk to national security.” The company? Anthropic — maker of Claude, one of the most capable AI systems on the planet. This label was designed for foreign adversaries. Companies with backdoors in their hardware. Firms controlled by hostile intelligence services. It’s been used publicly exactly once before, against a Swiss cybersecurity firm with reported Russian ties. ...

There’s a war happening in Iran. There’s also a completely different war happening on your timeline — and that one is mostly fake. Since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began February 28, social media has been hammered with AI-generated videos claiming to show missile strikes on Tel Aviv, burning skyscrapers in Dubai, and devastated military bases. These clips have collectively racked up hundreds of millions of views. The part that should make your stomach turn: the people creating them are getting paid to do it. ...

There’s a delicious irony in Ben Affleck — the guy who once told Joe Rogan that AI couldn’t “write anything meaningful” — quietly building an AI company for three years and then selling it to the biggest streamer on Earth. Netflix announced this week that it acquired InterPositive, a 16-person AI filmmaking tools startup Affleck founded in stealth back in 2022. Deal terms undisclosed. Affleck joins as senior adviser. And every filmmaker working with Netflix now gets access to tools that could fundamentally rewire post-production. ...

The AI chip wars just got a lot more interesting. Broadcom CEO Hock Tan dropped a number so staggering it made Wall Street’s collective jaw hit the floor: AI chip revenue exceeding $100 billion in 2027. Not total revenue — just the AI chip slice. Last quarter, that number was $8.4 billion. This isn’t just a big number. It’s a signal that the way we build AI infrastructure is fundamentally changing — and Nvidia might not be the only kingmaker anymore. ...

There’s a moment in every technology cycle where something shifts from “impressive demo” to “wait, this actually works.” OpenAI’s GPT-5.4, launched this week, might be that moment for agentic AI. For the first time, OpenAI’s flagship model can natively control a computer — clicking buttons, navigating apps, writing and executing code — and it does it better than most humans on standardized benchmarks. On OSWorld-Verified, which measures an AI’s ability to operate a desktop via screenshots and keyboard/mouse input, GPT-5.4 scored 75%. The human baseline? 72.4%. ...