OpenAI is reportedly asking third-party contractors to upload real work they have completed in past and current jobs as part of an effort to improve the quality of training data used for its AI models.  According to reporting from Wired, OpenAI is working with a training data company called Handshake AI to collect authentic workplace materials created by contractors, rather than relying solely on synthetic or hypothetical examples. This initiative appears to reflect a broade

OpenAI has begun the new year with another strategic acqui-hire, announcing that it will acquire the team behind Convogo, an AI-powered business software platform designed to support executive coaches, consultants, talent leaders, and HR teams.  Convogo’s product focused on automating leadership assessments and streamlining feedback reports, helping professionals reduce administrative workload while improving the quality of insights delivered to clients. While the acquisitio

The technology industry is approaching a historic legal moment as Google and Character.AI move toward finalizing what may be the first major settlements tied directly to alleged harm caused by artificial intelligence chatbots.  The companies have agreed in principle to resolve multiple lawsuits brought by families whose teenage children died by suicide or suffered serious psychological harm after interacting with Character.AI ’s chatbot companions. While the settlement deta

Nvidia has unveiled its next major leap in artificial intelligence hardware with the official launch of its Rubin computing architecture at the Consumer Electronics Show.  Announced by CEO Jensen Huang, Rubin is positioned as Nvidia’s most advanced AI platform to date, designed to confront the rapidly growing computational demands of modern AI systems. Production of the architecture is already underway, with further ramp up expected in the second half of the year, signaling

Voice AI startup Subtle has introduced a new pair of wireless earbuds designed to make voice a practical everyday interface, even in environments where speaking aloud has traditionally been unreliable or uncomfortable.  Unveiled ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the earbuds, called Voicebuds, aim to solve two persistent problems with voice technology: background noise and lack of privacy in shared spaces. By combining proprietary noise isolation models wit

Intel is making a significant push into the portable gaming market with the announcement of a new handheld gaming platform that includes a dedicated chip designed specifically for handheld devices. The news was shared during CES by Daniel Rogers, Intel’s vice president and general manager of PC Products, signaling the company’s intention to expand beyond traditional gaming PCs and deepen its presence in gaming hardware. This new platform will combine both hardware and softwa

If 2025 already felt like a difficult year to build or upgrade a PC, new reports suggest the situation could worsen in 2026. Nvidia is reportedly preparing to significantly reduce production of its GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards in the first half of 2026, with estimates pointing to a 30 to 40 percent cut compared to the first half of 2025.  The underlying issue is not a lack of demand for gaming GPUs, but a growing global memory shortage driven largely by the explosive

Nvidia is reportedly considering ramping up production of its H200 artificial intelligence chips after seeing a surge in demand from Chinese companies, following a recent shift in US trade policy that allows the processors to be sold in China under specific conditions.  The H200 is one of the most powerful chips from Nvidia’s Hopper generation, designed for training large language models, and until recently it was restricted from sale in China due to proposed export limits u

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is reshaping the digital economy, but its physical footprint is beginning to strain resources in unexpected ways.  Across the United States, the construction of AI focused data centers is accelerating at a pace that rivals traditional public infrastructure spending. While these facilities are essential for powering large scale AI systems, industry experts and analysts warn that their growth could come at the expense of long over

The Walt Disney Company has entered a major three year partnership with OpenAI that signals a turning point for how generative artificial intelligence and Hollywood’s most valuable intellectual property may coexist.  Announced on December 11, the agreement includes a $1 billion US equity investment from Disney into OpenAI and grants permission for OpenAI’s Sora tool to generate AI videos using licensed Disney characters (TechCrunch). The deal reflects Disney’s effort to shap

Opera has officially opened public access to its long-anticipated AI browser, Neon, marking one of the most ambitious attempts yet to merge everyday browsing with advanced artificial intelligence.  After several months of private testing that began in October and an initial reveal in May, Neon is now available to anyone willing to pay its subscription fee of $19.90 per month (Yahoo). The launch places Opera squarely in the emerging category of agentic browsers, a space also

Microsoft is placing a major bet on India’s role in the global AI economy, announcing plans to invest $17.5 billion in the country over the next four years as competition intensifies among Big Tech players racing to secure computing power, talent, and customers.  The commitment, described as Microsoft’s largest investment in Asia, will roll out from 2026 through 2029 and builds on the $3 billion the company pledged in India earlier this year. With India’s massive internet an

OpenAI is expanding its global infrastructure footprint with a major new partnership in Australia, teaming up with Brisbane based data centre operator NextDC to build a multibillion dollar AI campus in western Sydney.   The agreement, structured around a memorandum of understanding and long term collaboration on planning, development, and operations, is designed to deliver the kind of compute capacity that advanced AI systems increasingly require as demand for high performan

Accenture and OpenAI are deepening their relationship in a move that signals how quickly enterprise AI is becoming a standard part of consulting delivery, not just an client offering.  Under the agreement, Accenture plans to equip tens of thousands of its professionals with ChatGPT Enterprise, positioning it as the largest group of workers upskilled through OpenAI Certifications. The idea is straightforward but ambitious: by putting the same tools into daily consulting, oper

Micron Technology’s decision to walk away from consumer memory is more than a brand change, it is a clear signal that artificial intelligence is reshaping the economics of making chips.  Micron began in 1978 as a small design consultancy founded by Ward Parkinson, Joe Parkinson, Dennis Wilson, and Doug Pitman in Boise, Idaho, backed by local investors including J.R. Simplot. By 1983, the company was already punching above its weight by producing chips roughly half the size o

Amazon Web Services is stepping up its push to make AI infrastructure faster, cheaper, and less power hungry with the formal launch of its third generation training chip, Trainium3, unveiled at AWS re:Invent 2025.  The company introduced Trainium3 UltraServer, a full system built around a 3 nanometer Trainium3 chip plus AWS’s in house networking, framing it as a major leap not only for training large AI models but also for running AI applications during peak demand (Bort). I

OpenAI’s viral chatbot is approaching a major shift, as new leaks strongly suggest that ChatGPT will soon include advertising across its platform.  The discovery arrives just after ChatGPT’s third anniversary, a milestone that highlights the chatbot’s extraordinary rise since late 2022, when it went mainstream and rapidly accumulated hundreds of millions of users (Yahoo). With an estimated 800 million people using ChatGPT today, most of them on the free tier, the introductio

Onton, the AI-powered shopping platform previously known as Deft, is accelerating its mission to simplify online decision-making with a new $7.5 million seed investment.  The funding round, led by Footwork with participation from Liquid 2, Parable Ventures, and 43, brings the company’s total raised capital to roughly $10 million and comes at a time when consumers are increasingly overwhelmed by the complexity of online shopping. With major tech companies like OpenAI, Google,

Alibaba’s newly relaunched Qwen AI app has rapidly become one of the most talked-about developments in the global artificial intelligence landscape, recording more than 10 million downloads within its first week of public beta. The surge marks one of the fastest early adoption curves seen in the consumer AI market, surpassing the initial momentum of tools like ChatGPT, Sora, and DeepSeek (Artificial Intelligence News). The explosive uptake reflects a strategic shift in how m

Google’s rapid ascent in the AI race is reshaping the dynamics of the tech and semiconductor markets, with its newly released Gemini 3 model emerging as a major catalyst.  The model debuted to enthusiastic reviews, including high praise from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who declared he is “not going back” to ChatGPT after trying it out (Investors Business Daily). Google parent Alphabet’s stock has surged accordingly, rising nearly 5 percent on Monday after an 8 percent ral