Google DeepMind Loses Two AI Heavyweights in Three Days — to OpenAI and to Anthropic
Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer left Google for OpenAI, and Nobel laureate John Jumper left for Anthropic — both within the…
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Bumble Is Killing the Swipe. Whitney Wolfe Herd Says AI Matchmaking Is the Only Way Forward
Bumble's returning founder-CEO is removing the core feature that defined swipe-based dating apps for over a decade, betting AI-driven matchmaking…
Boston Dynamics’ Longtime CEO Steps Down Just as Its New Atlas Robot Ships
Robert Playter retired after more than 30 years at Boston Dynamics right as its fully electric Atlas humanoid entered production…
Affirm’s Max Levchin Wants His Buy-Now-Pay-Later App to Act Like Your ‘Smarter Older Sister’
The PayPal co-founder built Affirm around no late fees and no compound interest — and just laid out a roadmap…
Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas Says AI’s Real Bottleneck Isn’t Compute — It’s Bureaucracy
The Perplexity CEO argues regulatory friction and institutional inertia, not algorithms or power supply, are what's actually slowing AI adoption…
OpenAI Put Its Loudest Safety Skeptic on Its Own Safety Board — Paul Christiano Joins the Foundation
OpenAI has appointed former alignment lead Paul Christiano to its nonprofit Foundation Board and Safety and Security Committee, bringing a…
Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick Confirms GTA 6’s November Date Again — and Admits He’s Nervous
After two delays, Take-Two's CEO says Grand Theft Auto 6 is still on track for November 19, 2026 — and…
Epic’s Tim Sweeney Pitches Unreal Engine 6 as Gaming’s Answer to Roblox — After Cutting 20% of Staff
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney is betting that connecting economies across different Unreal Engine games is the only way new…
CrowdStrike’s George Kurtz Calls FY26 the Company’s ‘Best Year Yet’ Two Years After a Global Outage
CrowdStrike closed its fiscal 2026 year with record recurring revenue, positioning itself as essential AI-era infrastructure — even as its…
Music Publishers Aren’t Just Suing Anthropic. They’re Suing Its CEO, Personally.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell aren't just going after Anthropic as a company — their new lawsuit names co-founder…