Sriram Krishnan, a senior White House policy adviser on artificial intelligence, is leaving his role at the end of June, marking a notable change in the Trump administration’s AI policy team. Krishnan announced his departure in a post on X, calling the opportunity to serve “the privilege of a lifetime.” He thanked President Donald Trump and said the administration’s leadership helped position the United States at the front of the global AI race. He did not give a specific rea

Equal AI is trying to solve a problem that many people in India deal with every day: too many unwanted, unclear, or time-consuming phone calls. From spam and scams to delivery updates, job offers, and financial service pitches, users often receive calls that interrupt their day. Existing tools like Truecaller and the government’s Calling Name Presentation system can help identify who is calling, but Equal AI argues that knowing a caller’s name is not always enough. Its AI ass

Meta is rolling out a new AI-powered Creator Assistant on Facebook, giving creators a more personalized way to understand their content performance and plan what to post next. Built directly into Facebook’s creator dashboard, the tool is designed to help creators move beyond charts and basic analytics by answering questions in a conversational way. Instead of manually searching through dashboards, creators can ask things like when they should post, why a specific reel perform

As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, some thinkers are turning to ancient philosophy to guide how it should be used. From investing to education and technology leadership, Aristotle and Socrates are being brought into modern AI debates because they focused on judgment, reasoning and human purpose. The main idea is that AI should not simply give people faster answers. It should help people think better, question assumptions and make wiser decisions. In finance, la

A new wave of parents is using AI not just as a work tool, but as a household manager. Across social media, momfluencers are showing other mothers how to use ChatGPT, Claude, and similar tools to plan meals, organize schedules, write school emails, track chores, and manage the invisible labor of family life. What started as simple AI tips has grown into a new creator economy niche, with influencers selling prompts, guides, custom chatbots, and paid courses that teach parents

OpenAI has taken a major step toward Wall Street by confidentially filing for an initial public offering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The move could lead to one of the largest public listings in market history, with the ChatGPT maker reportedly valued at more than $850 billion. Although OpenAI has not confirmed when it plans to go public, the confidential filing allows regulators to review its financial disclosures before they are eventually made public t

Jeff Bezos’ new AI startup, Prometheus, is quickly becoming one of the biggest names in the artificial intelligence industry. The company, co-founded by Bezos and scientist-entrepreneur Vik Bajaj, has raised $12 billion in Series B funding at a $41 billion valuation. This new round brings Prometheus’ total funding to more than $18 billion in less than a year, making it one of the most heavily funded AI startups in the world. Investors in the round include JPMorgan Chase, Gold

ChatGPT has reached a major milestone in the artificial intelligence industry, becoming the fastest app in history to hit one billion monthly active app users. According to estimates from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, OpenAI’s chatbot reached this mark in May, only about three and a half years after launching in November 2022. This achievement puts ChatGPT ahead of major platforms such as Google Maps, TikTok, and Instagram in terms of adoption speed. Google Maps prev

Companies are investing heavily in artificial intelligence with the expectation that it will unlock major productivity gains, especially in software engineering. AI coding tools can now help developers produce more code faster than ever, with some workers saying tasks that once took a week can now be completed in a day. Tools like Claude Code have made individual coding work quicker, but the larger business results are still less clear. More code does not automatically mean b

The literary world is facing a major debate after allegations that one or more regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize may have used artificial intelligence. The controversy began after Jamir Nazir, a Trinidadian writer, won for his story “The Serpent in the Grove,” which was later criticized online for sounding unnatural, overly polished and possibly AI-generated. The story was published in Granta, and readers quickly bean pointing to strange metaphors, repeat

The European Union has ordered Meta to restore free access to WhatsApp for rival artificial intelligence chatbot providers, escalating a high-profile antitrust dispute that could shape the future of AI competition across Europe. The decision comes as EU regulators continue investigating whether Meta abused its market power by restricting competitors' access to WhatsApp while favoring its own AI services. The European Commission, the European Union’s top competition authority,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has declined an invitation from Sen. Elizabeth Warren to testify before the Senate Banking Committee at a June 11 hearing focused on artificial intelligence, China, export controls and American technological dominance. The decision has drawn more attention to Nvidia’s growing influence in the global AI race, especially as its advanced chips remain essential to training and running many of today’s most powerful AI systems. Warren had invited Huang to sp

Amazon is making a major push into AI-powered retail with a new feature that allows customers to design custom merchandise simply by describing an idea. Integrated into Alexa for Shopping, the tool uses generative artificial intelligence to transform text prompts into unique designs that can be printed on products such as T-shirts, hoodies, tumblers, and water bottles. By combining AI-generated artwork with its existing print-on-demand infrastructure, Amazon is making persona

Apple is preparing for one of its most important AI moments yet as it gets ready to reveal a major Siri overhaul at WWDC 2026. The company’s virtual assistant, first introduced in 2011, has fallen behind newer AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini. While Apple has added features through Apple Intelligence, such as speech translation, custom emojis, and screen-based search, many analysts say the company has not yet delivered an AI feature that truly stands out. This

Google is expanding its Gemma 4 family with Gemma 4 12B, a new open model designed to bring powerful multimodal AI directly to laptops and everyday devices. The model sits between Google’s smaller edge-friendly E4B model and its larger 26B Mixture of Experts model, offering stronger reasoning and agentic abilities while keeping memory requirements low. Google says Gemma 4 models have now passed 150 million downloads, showing strong interest from developers building everything

The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a growing debate about whether the AI economy will create a permanent underclass of people left behind by automation. In Silicon Valley, the mood is both excited and anxious. Top AI engineers are receiving enormous compensation offers, startups are racing to become the next major winner, and some young workers believe success in the next few years could determine their entire economic future. Behind the optimism is a fear that A

Microsoft is entering the next phase of workplace AI with the launch of Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal assistant built to work across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. Inspired by the open-source OpenClaw project, Scout is designed to move beyond the basic question-and-answer style of most AI tools. Instead of waiting for users to prompt it every time, Scout can stay active in the background, learn how someone works, and help carry tasks forward across apps like Teams, Out

Lovable is expanding its relationship with Google Cloud through a new multiyear agreement that could significantly accelerate its growth in enterprise AI. The Stockholm-based startup, known for its fast-growing vibe-coding platform, has already been a longtime Google Cloud customer. Under the expanded partnership, Lovable is expected to increase its Google Cloud footprint fivefold, including much higher usage of cloud and AI services. Although the companies did not disclose t

Concerns about the future of the artificial intelligence boom intensified this week after multiple reports revealed that OpenAI, the company that helped ignite the generative AI race with ChatGPT, has reportedly fallen short of its own ambitious growth and revenue expectations. The developments have sparked wider questions about whether the enormous spending pouring into AI infrastructure can continue at its current pace and whether OpenAI can maintain its leadership position

Amazon is pushing deeper into warehouse automation with a new version of its Proteus robot, a machine designed to respond to workers using normal conversational language. Instead of needing technical commands or a programming interface, employees can simply tell the robot what needs to be moved, and Proteus will figure out the priority, route, and timing. The robot was introduced at Amazon’s Delivering the Future event in England, showing how quickly AI-powered machines are b