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In order to accelerate the construction of new power plants needed to provide energy for its data centers, Meta is looking to get into the business of trading electricity. Bloomberg reportsthat both Meta and Microsoft are asking for federal approval to trade power (Apple has already received this approval). According to Meta, this will allow […]

Thomas Lee Young doesn’t sound like your typical Silicon Valley founder. The 24-year-old CEO ofInterface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents, is a white guy with a Caribbean accent and a Chinese last name, a combination he finds amusing enough to mention when he’s first introduced to business contacts. Born and

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on February 16, 2026, creating a roughly three-month transition period for remaining applications still built on GPT-4o. Sources familiar with the matter emphasized that this

Sierra, a 21-month-old, San Francisco-based startup that builds customer service AI agents for enterprises,announcedon Friday that it reached $100 million in annual revenue run rate (ARR). The company’s rapid growth suggests that businesses across industries are embracing AI agents. The startup’s growth rate surprised even its seasoned co-founders, former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and longtime

AI companies are spending so much on infrastructure that Nvidia’s data center business now brings in nearly $50 billion. But is this sustainable growth or just the latest tech mania? And should we even be calling it a “bubble” when the belief in AI’s future is what’s holding the whole ecosystem together?  This week on Equity, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha,

A new wave of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before. Some of these AI wearables–including necklaces, rings, and wristbands, as well as portable devices- serve as productivity tools, while others claim to act as friendly companions listening to your everyday thoughts. EvenOpenAIis working on a

Salesforce launched a suite of monitoring tools on Thursday designed to solve what has become one of the thorniest problems in corporate artificial intelligence: Once companies deploy AI agents to handle real customer interactions, they often have no idea how those agents are making decisions. The new capabilities, built into Salesforce's Agentforce 360 Platform, give

Researchers at Google have developed a new AI paradigm aimed at solving one of the biggest limitations in today’s large language models: their inability to learn or update their knowledge after training. The paradigm, called Nested Learning, reframes a model and its training not as a single process, but as a system of nested, multi-level

Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk

Elon Musk’s Grok really, really loves its creator. Since this week’s release ofGrok 4.1, X users have circulated posts and screenshots that show Grok vastly overestimating Musk’s abilities — like when Grok was asked about how Musk would perform as aprofessional football player. “hey @grok if you had the number one overall pick in the