How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs
How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs

Soon after the Trump administration launched its war on Iran, I called up Reed Blakemore, director of research and programs at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, to talk about the consequences. While oil and gas prices were already on the rise, there was still more hope then that the impact of the conflict might […]

AI Leadership Faces Its Defining Test As Anthropic Takes The Pentagon To Court

Anthropic sues the Pentagon while OpenAI signs a deal. What two CEOs’ contrasting choices reveal about AI leadership, market value and ethical risk.

Ford is giving its commercial fleet business an AI makeover
Ford is giving its commercial fleet business an AI makeover

Ford announced a new AI-powered service for its commercial fleet and telematics software customers called Ford Pro AI. The generative AI system analyzes data generated by commercial vehicles – including vehicle speed, seat belt activity, and engine health – and converts it into actionable items for fleet managers. The new system manifests as – what […]

Moltbook Acquired By Meta, Team Joins AI Lab

Meta has acquired Moltbook, the AI-agent social network that recently went viral online. As part of the acquisition, Moltbook founders will join Meta’s Superintelligence Labs.

Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app

Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.

Microsoft Dreamed Of A Digital Coworker. Then It Licensed Anthropic’s.

Microsoft built Copilot Cowork on Anthropic’s Claude model and agentic framework. The $13B OpenAI partner just shipped its flagship AI feature on someone else’s engine.

AI-powered apps can make money, but struggle with long-term retention, new data shows

AI can drive stronger early
monetization for apps, but sustaining value remains the challenge, RevenueCat’s latest report finds.

Judge Rules AI Agents Can’t Act On Your Behalf Without Platform Permission

California Judge Maxine Chesney has ruled that AI agents need platform permission to access systems, even when operating on your behalf.

Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon
Judge orders Perplexity to stop AI agents from shopping on Amazon

A federal judge has issued an order blocking Perplexity’s web browser-based AI agents from placing Amazon orders on a user’s behalf, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a ruling on Monday, US District Judge Maxine Chesney writes that Amazon has “provided strong evidence” that Perplexity’s Comet browser accesses user accounts “without authorization” from the retail […]

ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time.  Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diagra…