AI’s Next Trick? Speaking Dolphin

“With AI, we can find patterns,” she said, adding, “This is a powerful new tool. I’ve personally been waiting for it.” The team has used…

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character AI’s workforce |

In Brief Posted: 9:30 AM PDT · October 18, 2026 After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will…

‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers

Artificial, the new comedy-drama about OpenAI and the artificial intelligence arms race, is a movie of weird walks. As OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever, Russian actor…

Cal AI’s Zach Yadegari joins the Disrupt 2026 lineup |

What happens when the app you started in high school goes viral? For Zach Yadegari, the answer was more than 15 million downloads, $30 million…

One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

How do you interpret the resignation of that Anthropic engineer, who’s saying the companies are reckless and gambling with our lives? On the one hand,…

Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop

A group of AI researchers who previously worked at Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI, and Meta Superintelligence Labs announced on Wednesday they’re launching a new startup…

Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?

Three months ago, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman told me his concerns about a mounting public relations crisis facing artificial intelligence companies: Despite the popularity of…

Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi |

11:41 AM PDT · March 22, 2026 AI coding company Cursor launched a new model this week called Composer 2, which it promoted as offering…

AI’s promise to indie filmmakers: Faster, cheaper, lonelier |

A Filipino man walks through the backyard of his childhood home in rural Hawai’i, his footsteps swooshing through the grass. Birds chirp, contributing to the…

How WitnessAI raised $58M to solve enterprise AI’s biggest risk |

7:00 AM pst · January 14, 29 min As companies deploy AI-powered chatbots, agents, and copilots across their operations,they’refacing a new risk: how do you…