Wikipedia recently marked its 25th anniversary, but the milestone arrives at a complicated moment for one of the internet’s most influential platforms. Launched on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia began as an experiment in open collaboration, a free online encyclopedia that anyone could edit. What started as a side project to support the more formal Nupedia quickly eclipsed its predecessor. By allowing users to bypass strict editorial review and contribute directly, Wikipedia rapi

Nvidia is signaling it may be done writing ever-larger equity checks to the AI startups it supplies, even as it remains the primary company selling the chips that make their ambitions possible. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in San Francisco on March 4, CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both companies, arguing that once they go public, the window for private investing

Canada’s federal government is pressing OpenAI for answers and concrete safety changes after the Feb. 10 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., a tragedy in which police say eight people were killed, including six at a secondary school. The case has intensified questions about what responsibility AI companies have when users post, or appear to post, content signaling real-world violence, and how quickly platforms should alert law enforcement. At the centre of the scrutiny is C

Google and OpenAI escalated their rivalry at the forefront of artificial intelligence on the same day, with Google unveiling its most advanced AI research agent yet just as OpenAI released GPT 5.2, codenamed Garlic. Google’s announcement centered on a major upgrade to Gemini Deep Research, which it described as a reimagined agent capable of long form reasoning, complex analysis, and enterprise grade investigation rather than simply generating research reports. The closely t

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

Finland’s emerging AI startup NestAI has captured significant attention after securing €100 million (about $115 million) in new funding and unveiling a strategic partnership with Nokia to advance artificial intelligence for defense and autonomous systems. The round, led by Finland’s sovereign wealth fund Tesi alongside Nokia, signals a major vote of confidence in the company’s mission to build AI technologies that can be deployed in unmanned vehicles, autonomous operations, a

Snap Inc. has announced a groundbreaking $400 million partnership with Perplexity, the AI startup behind a popular conversational answer engine. The agreement, revealed alongside Snap’s Q3 2025 earnings, will integrate Perplexity’s AI directly into Snapchat, giving its massive user base a new way to access real-time, research-oriented answers without ever leaving the app (TechCrunch). Under the terms of the deal, Perplexity will pay Snap $400 million in cash and equity over