Artificial Intelligence Industry News

Brown University Study: ChatGPT and AI Chatbots Systematically Violate Mental Health Ethics Standards

Anthropic Acquires Computer-Use Startup Vercept After Meta Poached Co-Founder for $250M Salary

South Korea and Singapore Launch $300M AI Fund to Challenge US-China Dominance in Deep Tech

Amazon Invests $50 Billion in OpenAI at $840B Valuation as Part of Historic $110B Funding Round

Block Cuts 47% of Staff Citing AI as London Hosts Largest Anti-AI Protest Yet

Jack Dorsey slashed 4,000 jobs explicitly linking cuts to AI tools while 500 marched demanding democratic control, Yann LeCun raised $586M betting world models beat LLMs, and DeepMind's Genie 3 triggered OpenAI code red

Perplexity AI Statistics 2026: Users, Revenue & Growth

The latest data on Perplexity's 45 million users, 780 million monthly queries, $20B valuation, and how it's challenging Google Search

Gemini AI Statistics 2026: Users, Growth, and Market Share Data

The latest data on Google Gemini's 750 million users, enterprise adoption, API growth, and competitive position against ChatGPT

DeepMind's Genie 3 and NVIDIA Cosmos Hit 2M Downloads as World Models Race Eclipses LLM Hype

Google launches real-time interactive 3D world model publicly while NVIDIA platform surges and OpenAI reportedly triggers "code red" over spatial capabilities gap

CNN Analysis: Block Layoffs Prove AI Jobs Fear Real, But Economic "Doom Loop" Remains Overblown

Financial analysts split on whether AI-linked cuts herald broader trend or represent pandemic overcorrection as historical precedent suggests tech increases employment

Yann LeCun Raises $586M at $3.5B Valuation Betting World Models Will Beat LLMs to AGI

Meta's former Chief AI Scientist left to launch startup challenging industry's LLM obsession, seeking massive pre-launch valuation for "world model" alternative